Don't give them any freakin' ideas, people!! In 2008, when sitting Sen Toricelli was polling behind the Republican challenger in NJ (due to a - get this- "ethics controversy"), he dropped out. Unfortunately for the Dems, it was after the explicit deadline for another candidate to be added to the ballot. The Dems aded Frank Lautenberg anyway. Unfortunately for the Rule of Law, the NJ Supreme Court went along with it. Lautenberg won.
Same thing happened in 2000 in Missouri, when sitting Gov Carnahan died (plane crash) just before the election. His wife was allowed to take his place, despite election law. She won.
There is no shortage of recent election recounts where the recounts did not finish until the Dem was ahead, and then the counts stopped immediately. Washington, Ohio, Florida, Minnesota, etc.
Never, NEVER forget that they do not have to follow the Rules!! The power-hungry do NOT give up power willingly... and the Hard Left is in charge, and hungrier than anyone we've ever seen in this country.
Good point.
Actually, Mel Carnahan remained on the ballot. Shortly after the plane crash, new Gov. Roger Wilson announced that if Carnahan was elected, he would name his widow as Senator.
In the two weeks following Carnahans death, there was really no campaigning. But there was a lot of sympathy and a highly publicized funeral, of course. Ashcroft lost by about 2%, or 50,000 votes. It was all done legally, but the sympathy factor had a whole lot to do with it.
Two years later, after we had discovered that Jean Carnahan was slightly dumber than a box of rocks, she was defeated by Jim Talent in the special election.
Right you are! I remember that awful U.S. Senate election in Missouri in 2000. They were interviewing one dingbat (whose gender I will refuse to identify) who said its vote was to show one coworker who told it that being a U.S. Senator could be a difficult job and just because someone was married to someone who was qualified didn't make them qualified. It took said remark as a sexist put-down of women and voted for the box of rocks just to show him.