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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone seems to be blaming Riemer if Blair ends up losing. People will argue though whether he drew more votes from Elrich or Blair. But what about Peter James? He seems to have a more similar profile to Blair (Private sector CEO w/o previous government experience) and got over 2,000 votes. If he hadn't run, I would think likely a lot more of those votes would have gone in favor of Blair.[/quote]

I somewhat agree with you regarding potential Blair voters going to James, but honestly, I think those people were casting protest votes.... as in "I'm not voting for Elrich because (reason), not for Reimer because (other reason), not for Blair (insert 3rd reason). So I'm picking someone who has no shot to win."  When I'm in this situation, sometimes I do a throw-away vote, other times I skip that particular race.

I think anyone who paid attention to 2018 would have known that every vote has the potential to change the election. Of course, some of the 2022 voters probably didn't pay attention to 2018...[/quote]

If James hadn't run, maybe some of those who voted for him wouldn't have voted at all. But at least some I think would have still voted, and enough of that group I think would have voted for Blair over Elrich or Riemer, at least enough to make up for a 100-200 vote deficit. At least Riemer ran because he probably thought he had a chance of winning. Not sure why James ran at all other than to be a spoiler. Conspiracy theory - maybe that was the plan and he is friends with Elrich! [/quote]

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