2022 Senate Race

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Re: 2022 Senate Race

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phuqueue wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 9:02 am Voters in general aren't nearly as far to the right as their representatives, but we end up with this awful government because low turnout primaries are dominated by the most invested (i.e., extreme) voters, who send maniacs on to the general election, where most people just compulsively pull the lever for whoever has the right party affiliation. The NYT took a look after the KS vote at which other states would likely vote to protect abortion rights if the question were put directly to voters and estimated only seven would have voted against abortion (Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama). And the vote would be pretty close in most of those, except for the three Gulf Coast states. They estimated it would pass almost as easily in MO as it did in KS.
I also think you have to look at things in regards to individual issue voters vs party line voters in these contexts. As we saw with KS, a single issue put up can easily draw out even the most uninvolved voters
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