Posted on 11/16/2019 8:11:16 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Yes
Incumbents often have games at their disposal an outsider doesn’t have. They get an advantage.
It’s why it’s so hard to change a Congressman or Senator.
Silly me....here I was thinking that had to do with these career DSers not voting in TERM LIMITS for themselves...and....all of the RNC $$ going toward keeping these DS creeps (like Cornyn, etc) in their lifelong seat.
;-)
It’s Louisiana. More tribal than rational.
At best it comes down to who would you rather go fishing with.
The reason he won is he took a two billion dollar deficit and worked to make it a two hundred million dollar surplus. Nothing at all like California. However, pretty sick of losing election after election.
Easy to explain. Republicans hate Trump along with Democraps. They figure we don’t like them, and we don’t, so they are having payback against us to teach republicans to never, ever vote for an outside again. This will result in Trump winning re-election, but we will loose both the house and the senate. They will impeach him in 2021, successfully remove him, candy walla, CW2, where we don’t show up, embolden Democraps to destroy the constitution and they make us slaves by imposing the 666 Bitcoin mark, then Extermination, war and God get pissed and lights everything up. The rest after that gets really, really messy.
You bring up a good point. Why the republicans keep battling through these “jungle” elections when the party could nominate someone and get 50% at the outset.
Just a suggestion.
In Kentucky several families run the State political machine and have for a long time. I’ve no doubt that the narrow winning margin that Andy beshear had was due to fraud. If a Democrat can’t get a few extra thousand fraud votes in Jefferson and Fayette counties he ain’t much of a Democrat.
Nonetheless even with the Beshear name (which here in Kentucky is almost the same as being an incumbent) it was Bevin’s election to lose and he did. Beshear promised endless money for the teachers and public employees pensions - with no pain. Bevin tried to reform the pensions and handled it very poorly from a public relations point of view. He should have stayed above the fray, instead he got right in the middle and he got covered in crap.
It’s difficult to overestimate the amount of antipathy Bevin generated with the teachers union.
He ran as who he really is. Those are his true positions and beliefs. He’s not a wacko radical liberal. People here know that. Rispone was a bad candidate. He had no real positions other than he likes Trump.
I honestly think Trump should have stayed out of this race. This is one of those races where the R should have simply took the L and look forward to the next gubernatorial campaign.
I don't care if Edwards is a Democrat. Anyone who supports life and RKBA I'd vote for in a heartbeat.
That too...
They take advantage anyway they can.
Thanks for the mention.
That’s not too shabby.
Hard to win with a weak unknown candidate, even with Trump’s help. Like Kentucky, bad candidates will lose.
All candidates run in the same primary.
If no candidate gets above 50%, the top two face off in the general election.
In the 2015 primary, the combined total vote for three Republican candidates was 57%.
However, in the 2015 general election, John Bel Edwards, the Democrat, got 56%.
In the 2019 primary, the combined GOP vote was 50%.
In the 2019 general election, John Bel Edwards, the Democrat, got 51.3%.
At first glance, it looks like there is significant GOP in-fighting after the primaries.
It’s all well and good for these apparent rubes and dupes in KY and LA to vote for Democrats and SAY it’s not a referendum on Trump, but guess what folks? It is. Perception=Reality. But go ahead and give aid and comfort to the people trying to impeach the president. Sounds like a plan. I’ve had it with the excuses. You think Democrats in CA would vote for a Republican just because they were pro choice and anti-gun? I think not. Those mother****ers know how to get in line.
Please see my Comment #54.
In the 2015 primary, three GOP candidates got 57% - but, John Bel Edwards (D) won the general election with 56%.
In the 2019 primary, the GOP got 50.2%. Rispone (R) got 27%. Abraham (R) got 23%.
John Bel Edwards (D) won the 2019 general election with 51.3%.
And once again stupid people split their vote
“He has campaigned...”
He didn’t campaign, at all, after he knocked off Abraham in the primary.
I saw this coming and pinned all my hopes on Trump’s efforts. He did bring him up some.
Voting fraud must run as deep as Deep State in the Louisiana territory. Winning by a ‘narrow margin’ will be seen many times in the next year. d’rats are experts, having had so much practice. That they lost in 2016 was only a fluke or a Miracle and they will not allow that to happen again.
The party of sh## and needles in the streets and homelessness prevails!
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