And 4000 fewer people showed up in the Democratic Primary in the 6th District than in 2004.
36158 votes in 2004
~31996 votes in 2006
It’s about 20% up from 2002 (the first year of these boundaries. Even given the Barack effect for 2004, the District is still remarkably lacking in infrastructure—this isn’t a slam especially since I know Rick, Hiram and others who have worked so hard, but despite one candidate doing essentially 3 years of organizing, one reaching out to new primary voters, and one spending $700,000 in the primary, not many people showed up.
Roskam has virtually identical numbers to 2004, but that is down from 2002 when Republicans produced 66,000 votes to the 50,000 votes this year and in 2004.