Thread by @JennforTenn

If I ever have the honor of meeting @staceyabrams I will ask her if she had a hard time convincing Dems to vote for Dems like we do here in Williamson County. Turning a red district Blue takes yrs & several cycles, but we're against a self-defeating narrative here.
@tndp
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To some degree I get it bc for many yrs Dems weren't on the ballot. But we've run primaries for the last 2 cycles & this yr had a contested primary for a county-wide seat for the 1st time ever! Yet many Dems pulled an R ballot to "vote for the least crazy R". They didn't need to

E.g., many Dems wanted to keep Glen Casada out of the County Clerk seat. So they pulled an R ballot to vote for the other guy. Casada lost by over 8K votes but & according to election data about 1.6K Dems crossed over to vote for a guy & party who don't share their values.

Imagine instead if those 1.6K people joined the 2.2K Dems who voted in the Dem primary for our County Clerk candidates & we could have said Dems had a 22% turnout in the Primary. This builds on the momentum & base we've been building since 2016.

Since then Williamson County has seen some of the largest shifts toward Dems in TN

https://twitter.com/htmldon/status/1334505360644845570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1334505360644845570%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fonthehill.tnjournal.net%2Fcheck-out-these-precinct-level-maps-of-the-presidential-election-in-tennessee%2F

Bottom line: we can shift the dynamic here in Williamson County if Dems vote for Dems when they have the chance to do so. Dem turnout impacts races like @Campbell4TN & @OdessaKellyTN too & I hope Dems will vote for them instead of in the R Congressional primary. #VoteBlue2022