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Trolls always seem to show up in these races, giving a line of B.S. that the RAT candidate is "more conservative than most yankee Republicans". I figure most of them are DU types who signed up on FR to pretend to be Republicans, or Dixiecrats who hate anyone with an "R" next to their name because they're still fighting the civil war.

The other set of useful idiots is conservatives (and unfortunately they are genuine conservatives) who insist the GOP candidate has it in the bag no matter how well the RAT candidate is doing. Some thread will pop up a few weeks before the November election saying the RAT candidate is ahead by 5 points, and they will blow it off like "Sssssshah, right. If the polls are saying the pubbie is behind, that means our guy is REALLY 20 points ahead. Don't believe the media, the Dem doesn't have a prayer". And they'll keep fiddling til election day while Rome burns. During both the Kilgore and Allen campaigns, there were a ton of freepers insisting they'd roll over the Dem and win easily, despite those races getting tighter and tighter. They refused to see the light and vigorously go after the Dem until the final week or so of the campaign when it was too late.