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Trump rally shooter Thomas Crooks was registered as a Republican (eu.usatoday.com)

submitted 4 months ago by MrMakabar to c/pleasantpolitics

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Bullshit. That county has 2x as many registered Democrats as Republicans.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bethel Park is in House District 40, which is a +30 R district. They have voted R for congress ever since 1969, the first election listed.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because the county includes Pittsburgh. Bethel Park is a bumfuck suburb in the land of churches and meth affectionately known as Pennsyltucky.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok. 60% still isn’t ‘everybody’.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. What I should have said was "Frequently, voters register in the dominant party to vote in the primary for the party that is presumed to win." Everybody is an exaggeration.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Thank you. I don’t like the hand waving that they are using to somehow blame this on their ‘enemies’ and that kind of exaggeration feeds into it.