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"Open Primary" is a biased frame. We could also call it "Closed General" (because it excludes minor party candidates).

Please ask your on-air host to consider using a less biased frame, like "Top Two Primary."

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Will Phil Keisling run for Governor if this passes?

To critics who say he is doing this in large part because he doesn't believe he can win the Democratic Primary, is he willng to pledge that he won't run for Governor?

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I was once one of two on a jury who disagreed w/the verdict. It was one of the most frustrating experiences of my life. The young woman was aquitted because the rest of the jurors couldn't see how she would possibly even know she had hit the pedestrian because she was "so drunk." I tried until I was blue in the face to convince them that being too drunk to know you hit someone and took off was not a reason to aquit someone! I left the courtroom after two days of trial and deliberation feeling like there was absolutely no reason for me to be there. The prosecutor suveyed the jury and looked shocked that only two of us agreed with her.

posted 4 years, 11 months ago
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