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In reply to the discussion: 'It's not just one district': Ocasio-Cortez pushes back on Pelosi [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)State office holders have primaries in one month, federal ones in a different ones. School board elections are held on a different month all together. New Yorkers get primary fatigue. This was supposed to help candidates who had the support of Party leadership and the ability to mobilize Party loyalists. The assumption was that low turn out meant that the Party machine (I am not using that term in a derogatory sense, merely descriptive) could almost always turn out enough people to elect who ever the machine supported. That may have backfired big time for Crowley - who not only was the incumbent Representative, but also the Chair of the Queens County Democratic Party and was counting on the Party network to deliver the votes he needed in a low turn out election.