Paul Nehlen vs Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Dist 1 Primary

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Stella

dumpryanToday is the long-awaited primary election where Paul Ryan (incumbent) faces non-politician and businessman, Paul Nehlen.

I’m pulling for Nehlen.

To follow the election:

Ballotpedia, Wisconsin 1st Congressional District

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10 Responses to Paul Nehlen vs Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Dist 1 Primary

  1. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
    August 9, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    Another Link for Primary results.

    Let the fraud begin…

    http://wisconsinvote.org/election-results

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  2. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    August 9, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    U.S. House District 1 – Primary (R)
    Votes Pct.

    Paul Ryan (R) PROJECTED WINNER 23,197 83.6%

    Paul Nehlen (R) 4,554 16.4%

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    This is very depressing 47% reporting

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  3. shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
    August 9, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    Actually, that turned out pretty much as I expected. I did think that Nehlen would pull a few more votes, but I did not for a minute think he would beat Ryan. Name recognition is the key.

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  4. foncag1's avatar foncag1 says:
    August 9, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    Can Nehlen run in the general as an independent?

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  5. SwissMike (formerly ZurichMike)'s avatar ZurichMike says:
    August 10, 2016 at 1:39 am

    Nehlen, an unknown candidate versus Ryan, a high-ranking (Speaker of the House) incumbent in his own backyard who had the advantage of backing by the state party apparatus, a complicit media, crossover votes from Democrats, and potential fraud. Apparently Nehlen’s association with Wisconsin was tenuous and his business history there was sketchy, too.

    Essentially this was a local election, despite parallels drawn to the national race. But Ryan stated that TPP is not being brought forward under Obama — and he said this right before Trump’s endorsement. So we can be thankful that Trump negotiated that from Ryan as a condition for party unity (I am assuming this is what happened).

    I saw elsewhere (Twitter, I believe) that the number of votes in this GOP primaries this year were vastly more than the Dem primary. This indicates (1) high crossover probability of Dems, (2) more interest in general of GOP than Dem supporters.

    Lose the battle; win the war.

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