I thought you might want to know. Cynthia Dokmo, the RINO Write-in candidate from Amherst who chose to ignore the will of her primary voters came in dead last. Out of 15 candidates (7 GOP, 7 DEMO, plus Dokmo) Cynthia collected 2012 votes. That’s less than half (43%) of the number needed to make the cut.
But her endorsement seems to have carried some weight. Dokmo endorsed Democrat Shannon Chandley for the NH House, and Shannon made first loser, failing to make the grade by a paltry 741 votes. All the other DEM’s fell in between, as the Republicans not only swept the district they denied Dokmo twice.
There is however room for some speculation, and a correction perhaps to my previous estimation that Dokmo could skim off enough votes from a real Republican to allow a Democrat (Chandley as it turns out) to sneak in.
Cynthia appears to have taken enough votes from democrats to deny her bi-partisan allies any seat at the table at all. So I suppose we should thank her.
Had those votes been apportioned differently Chandley might have had enough to bump at least one GOP winner out.
But she didn’t.
That is so sad.
