Raskin facing a primary challenge in MD-8

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Felber fully supports Israel. Raskin voted against Israel. Felber is against the encampments and the violence that stems from it. That is a major policy difference between them.

Congressmen have zero jurisdiction over either encampments or the corresponding violence.

Also, understand, these schools have thousands of students, and you are paying attention to the handful of actual students and the follow-on non-students in these encampments and giving them way more space in your head than they deserve.

[Anonymous]

I know a few people who used to support Raskin and now don’t

[Anonymous]

Raskin lost my support also

[Anonymous]

Raskin gained my support

[Anonymous]

AP race call, 8:49 pm on May 14, 21% of votes counted

Raskin 26,088 95.2%
Felder 1,320 4.8%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Raskin lost my support also

There are a lot of reasons why I dislike Raskin. None of those reasons had anything to do with the reasons why Felder was running against him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AP race call, 8:49 pm on May 14, 21% of votes counted

Raskin 26,088 95.2%
Felder 1,320 4.8%

Wow, Raskin blow out. It looks like all the anti-Raskin voters were posting here.

[Anonymous]

Raskin's GOP opponent is Cheryl Reiley, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist.

I'm sure there's a chance.

[Anonymous]

Look at this result from another angle. Raskin is popular in his district, but voted against Israel aid during a war, and angered Jewish voters. A protest candidate ran a hopeless campaign on the pro-Israel issue, got 6% of the vote. So Jews are 2% of the U.S. population, in MoCo they are maybe 8%, right? And some are Republicans. So this result might mean MOST Jewish Democrats in Raskin’s district reject him now, because of this issue.
That should send a message….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at this result from another angle. Raskin is popular in his district, but voted against Israel aid during a war, and angered Jewish voters. A protest candidate ran a hopeless campaign on the pro-Israel issue, got 6% of the vote. So Jews are 2% of the U.S. population, in MoCo they are maybe 8%, right? And some are Republicans. So this result might mean MOST Jewish Democrats in Raskin’s district reject him now, because of this issue.
That should send a message….

That's not remotely how math works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at this result from another angle. Raskin is popular in his district, but voted against Israel aid during a war, and angered Jewish voters. A protest candidate ran a hopeless campaign on the pro-Israel issue, got 6% of the vote. So Jews are 2% of the U.S. population, in MoCo they are maybe 8%, right? And some are Republicans. So this result might mean MOST Jewish Democrats in Raskin’s district reject him now, because of this issue.
That should send a message….

A message of what? That a couple thousand people didn’t vote for him in the primary? He will get reelected by a slightly smaller tsunami in the general…there is no message here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at this result from another angle. Raskin is popular in his district, but voted against Israel aid during a war, and angered Jewish voters. A protest candidate ran a hopeless campaign on the pro-Israel issue, got 6% of the vote. So Jews are 2% of the U.S. population, in MoCo they are maybe 8%, right? And some are Republicans. So this result might mean MOST Jewish Democrats in Raskin’s district reject him now, because of this issue.
That should send a message….

Your theory is really stupid. In 2022, Raskin's primary opponent got 6% (https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/2022/primary_results/gen_results_2022_5_8.html). And in 2020, with three primary opponents, one of them managed to get to 8% (https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/2020/results/primary/gen_results_2020_3_00808.html). So actually Felber was actually an incredibly weak candidate, and the idea that Jewish people rallied behind him is fanciful.

(BTW, Moco's Jewish population is about 10%.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at this result from another angle. Raskin is popular in his district, but voted against Israel aid during a war, and angered Jewish voters. A protest candidate ran a hopeless campaign on the pro-Israel issue, got 6% of the vote. So Jews are 2% of the U.S. population, in MoCo they are maybe 8%, right? And some are Republicans. So this result might mean MOST Jewish Democrats in Raskin’s district reject him now, because of this issue.
That should send a message….

Wow, this is so dumb that I guess you never took a math class. MoCo has a population of about 1 million. About 100,000 are Jewish.

Of the 1 million, about 80% are democrats and 20% are republicans. Let's say that Jewish people follow that pattern. That means there are 80,000 Jewish democrats, and 20,000 Jewish republicans.

Felber got about 4000 votes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at this result from another angle. Raskin is popular in his district, but voted against Israel aid during a war, and angered Jewish voters. A protest candidate ran a hopeless campaign on the pro-Israel issue, got 6% of the vote. So Jews are 2% of the U.S. population, in MoCo they are maybe 8%, right? And some are Republicans. So this result might mean MOST Jewish Democrats in Raskin’s district reject him now, because of this issue.
That should send a message….

Wow, this is so dumb that I guess you never took a math class. MoCo has a population of about 1 million. About 100,000 are Jewish.

Of the 1 million, about 80% are democrats and 20% are republicans. Let's say that Jewish people follow that pattern. That means there are 80,000 Jewish democrats, and 20,000 Jewish republicans.

Felber got about 4000 votes.

Classy, really classy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AP race call, 8:49 pm on May 14, 21% of votes counted

Raskin 26,088 95.2%
Felder 1,320 4.8%

That’s a really embarrassing loss