Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:48:10 -0400
From: bobhunt@erols.com
Subject: Re: Primaries
To: LPUS-CAMP@dehnbase.org (LP business - campaigns)
Reply-To: lpus-camp@dehnbase.org


the "prag" candidate in Arizona out spent the "purist" by about a 100 to 1
but got less than one percent more votes.

Also independents can vote in the AZ primaries.


bh



On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 11:50:13 -0400, Bill Woolsey <wwoolsey@comcast.net>
wrote:

>

>Has anyone figured out the percent of

>LP primary voters in Arizona relative

>to all primary voters there?   Is my

>general impression correct that we had

>a contest between a hyper-purist and

>pragmatic extremist?   If so, this would

>be a battle between major factions of

>the LP.   It would be a measure of how

>many people care enough about the direction

>of the LP to participate.

>

>Of course, Wisconsin is different from

>Arizona and it may well be that baseline

>participation in the Wisconsin LP is much

>less than in Arizona.   

>