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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 04:25 PM Jun 2014

NYT Debunks Theory That Dem Voters Cost Cantor His Primary

CAITLIN MACNEAL – JUNE 11, 2014, 3:58 PM EDT

After House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-VA) shocking loss in Tuesday's primary, his pollster attributed the defeat to Democrats voting against Cantor in the primary in order to give their party's nominee a better chance in the general election.

While some Democratic voters did vote in the Republican primary, the New York Times' Nate Cohn wrote that based on the data, Democrats did not significantly contribute to Cantor's defeat.

In more Democratic districts, there was higher turnout in Tuesday's primary than there was for Ken Cucinelli, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in 2013. However, turnout was even higher in Republican precincts, and Brat carried the precincts won by Cucinelli in 2013 with 56 percent of the vote, according to the Times.

"But it would be hard to argue that Democrats made up the margin of victory. Turnout was still far, far higher in Republican precincts. Democratic areas did not contribute a large number of votes: Only 5,722 votes were cast in precincts where Mr. Cuccinelli failed to eclipse 40 percent of the vote. Mr. Brat won by 7,212 votes over all," Cohn wrote.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/democrat-voters-did-not-defeat-cantor

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NYT Debunks Theory That Dem Voters Cost Cantor His Primary (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
NYT has lost its ability to be a reliable investigative journalistic enterprise ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2014 #1
Thank you mcar Jun 2014 #2
No one said it ALL was the Dems underpants Jun 2014 #3
Losing small vs. losing big? Zambero Jun 2014 #4
Their argument doesn't preclude berni_mccoy Jun 2014 #5

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
1. NYT has lost its ability to be a reliable investigative journalistic enterprise
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 04:28 PM
Jun 2014

SO many failures, so strong a refusal to clean up the very top, where the problems lie.

Zambero

(8,954 posts)
4. Losing small vs. losing big?
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 05:25 PM
Jun 2014

The Tea Party may have thrust the fatal spear, while a smaller group of Democrats threw some salt into the wound.

 

berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)
5. Their argument doesn't preclude
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 05:30 PM
Jun 2014

Democratic interference. It only compares turnout between democratic and republican districts. Their logic is that because democratic turnout wasn't as high as republican turnout that democratic voters couldn't have influenced the outcome. That debunks nothing.

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