You Mean If Someone Other Than The Partisan Of the Partisan Showed Up?

By Kleinheider Posted on August 8, 2008 at 11:49 am

Christine Anne Piesyk bemoans the turnout in Montogemery’s primary election day and implies that the squeaker primary between Rosalind Kurita and Tim Barnes would have been different had there been more of an impressive display of civic engagement.

The tally may have been different, but the result would have likely been very much the same. Low turnout in a Democratic primary means, usually, only the very partisan, activist voters showed.

For Rosalind Kurita, after voting against her party in the legislature on key votes, like Speaker, this would not have really been her crowd. The more people who showed up to that election the safer Kurita would have become.

Apathy is not always working against agents of change, sometimes, they depend on it.

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