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Minnesota
Related: About this forumLooks like Phyllis Kahn lost her primary
Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Totals
Mohamud Noor 1738 29.62%
Ilhan Omar 2404 40.97%
Phyllis Kahn 1726 29.41%
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Looks like Phyllis Kahn lost her primary (Original Post)
geardaddy
Aug 2016
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CurtEastPoint
(19,287 posts)1. Interesting about the winner...
Ilhan Omar just became the first Somali-American and Muslim woman lawmaker in the U.S.
geardaddy
(25,375 posts)2. That is interesting.
But she's not a lawmaker yet. She won the primary, not the general.
CurtEastPoint
(19,287 posts)3. Right. I was blindly copying and pasting...
Thanks!
geardaddy
(25,375 posts)4. I'm sure she'll win anyway!
Scruffy1
(3,428 posts)7. Consider her elected.
This district is very heavily dem.
geardaddy
(25,375 posts)8. Yep. I'm not worried.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)5. Interesting results in 59A and 06A as well.
A primary loss is a hell of a way to end a long career, but if you don't keep up with the times, it's going to bite you in the butt.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)6. 44 years is way too long