Posted on 05/22/2024 3:21:52 AM PDT by cotton1706
Some seats went to RINOs...have friend who lost hers...but is relieved to be out of the Swamp.
It is under that threat...
My understanding is some RINOS won against conservatives.
They both ran in 2022. That’s all I know of them. I don’t know if both are running again. I just know it takes a lot of work to get people out to vote. I hope not as it generally works out filof the incumbents to split the vote 3 ways.
They are both on the primary ballot this year, in this particular district, no Democrats are running, so whoever wins the Republican Primary automatically wins the seat.
All politcs are local, don’t know the issues there but the headline is baised! Republicans loosing to other republicans
Mormons will always vote for their own kind over someone who isn’t part of the tribe, and as a group they greatly prefer someone who is NOT conservative over someone who is.
As a Catholic, I kind-of-sort-of resemble that statement. The same can be said of Jews-—it’s just that with Catholics and Jews there is diversity within the confession that at times can be a more defining trait.
While it was only in the 80’s that the Catholics and Jews collectively reached the three-seat benchmark on the Supreme court in what appeared to be a permanent way, since then, depending on how you count things, they at times have has a 9-0 majority——but the Catholics fall into rather distinctive camps. Jews can as well, but I don’t know if there ever has been a conservative Jewish justice.
Mormons are a bit more tribal than generic Catholics (if one has an Italian Catholic neighborhood one has a double-bond that may tolerate a sort of community justice that Mormons endorse only in theory. But “who am I to judge,” to quote one prominent Catholic of Italian descent).
I don’t see how one can take religion seriously (I would prefer that my politicians did), be capable of intelligently comprehending complex things (another desirable trait in a politician), have a fair idea about diverse important subjects in the world and history (another desirable trait, and one that is necessary if one is to stick to principles in the long run), and be a Mormon. I can only imagine being three of these four things simultaneously, at most.
I see that I said much, but failed to make the most salient points.
All three confessional groups have confessional beliefs—and all tend to be more receptive to immigration than wasps-—with this being especially rooted in the Mormon foundation-myth. THis works conveniently with the Mormon tendency to something resembling the prosperity-gospel.
COnfessional beliefs can easily nuance the generic “conservative” platform, but how this happens varies with the confession.
In my experience, one can count on MOrmons to drift left.
GOrdon Smith was a horrible pick for the Senate in Oregon, and likely helped to finish turning the state from dark purple to solid blue.
Not universally. In Idaho 1st District, the incumbent MAGA candidate (Herndon) lost to the RINO (Woodward). Some odd results out of Boundary County on this one. Herndon won all 7 precincts but lost the absentee ballots roughly 2:1. The State Rep Candidates for Dist 1A and Dist 1B were also won by squishy candidates. They too benefitted from unusual absentee results that were roughly 2:1. That doesn’t make sense and is highly suspect. The Dems crossed over to vote for Woodward (who Herndon beat in the last Republican primary) and really spent a ton on this jerk. There will be a MAGA independent challenger in November that will be getting my vote.
Case in point: the people talking about the United States Congress when this article is about the Idaho legislature.
It appears the Republican voters in Idaho have discovered they have the power to limit legislators’ terms by voting them out in primaries.
Elections are term limits.
Most casuals have no idea what yhe difference is between a primary and general election.
Yahoo knows this and wrote y he headline to mislead imo.
Basically using the poor understanding of thier audience to mislead.
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