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   Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 07:12:54 JST Luke T. Shumaker

   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan (I selected "Mix")

   "By party" answers really frustrate me, because:

   Where I'm from (Indiana):

   1) With the way the state D party runs, it's all but impossible to primary against an incumbent D. So you if the D is running for reelection, but you think they're doing a shit job, the most realistic thing to do is run as an R. (I imagine the converse is true too, but am not familiar with how the state R party is run.)

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     Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 07:16:37 JST Luke T. Shumaker

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan
     2) I remember a Governor race where both candidates had *incredibly* similar platforms, with the main difference being that the D had detailed financial documents about how he was going to pay for it without raising taxes, while the R said "idk how I'm going to pay for it, I'll probably have to raise taxes". Yet I'd near-constantly hear people saying that they were voting R because they didn't want their taxes to go up. The standard "party position" was inaccurate for this race.