Vote share is a continuous variable
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Last night, Evanston mayor Daniel Biss won the Democratic primary to replace Jan Schakowsky in Illinois’s 9th congressional district, defeating a crowded field. Kat Abughazaleh, an online content creator (she would say researcher and journalist) with no prior experience in elected office and, especially relative to the other candidates in the race, few ties to the district, came in second.
