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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/us/democrat-john-edwards-david-vitter-louisiana.html?_r=1
Vitter was thought to be a shoo-in just a couple of months ago. Love this next bit:
The Obama smear and the appeal to the base fears of people didn't actually work this time. That's the republican mainstay of demagoguery. If they can't get their rabble roused with that right after the Paris attacks, this could spell disaster for them next year.
And then, this:
The state's finances are in shambles, which is always the case when republicans are at the wheel driving their clown car into the ditch. I think we're seeing the beginning of yet another round of severe buyers' remorse around the country in states where voters swallowed the republican snake oil yet again over the past several election cycles.
NEW ORLEANS — With a victory that defied political geography and near universal predictions from just months earlier, a previously little-known Democrat, State Representative John Bel Edwards, soundly defeated United States Senator David Vitter in a runoff election on Saturday to become the next governor of Louisiana.
Mr. Edwards won 56 percent of the vote with virtually all of the ballots counted.
Vitter was thought to be a shoo-in just a couple of months ago. Love this next bit:
In the weeks between the two elections, Mr. Vitter tried various tactics against Mr. Edwards: warnings that he was an “Obama liberal” in Blue Dog clothing; provocative attack ads accusing him of wanting to release “thugs” from prison or of being dangerously uncommitted to keeping out Syrian refugees; and personal ads in which Mr. Vitter obliquely addressed the prostitution scandal by saying he had been forgiven by his family.
The Obama smear and the appeal to the base fears of people didn't actually work this time. That's the republican mainstay of demagoguery. If they can't get their rabble roused with that right after the Paris attacks, this could spell disaster for them next year.
And then, this:
Mr. Vitter, for his part, was a problematic candidate for Republicans, even though he had been widely seen as the favorite for months. A prostitution scandal from 2007, the baggage of an unpopular Republican incumbent, Gov. Bobby Jindal,
The state's finances are in shambles, which is always the case when republicans are at the wheel driving their clown car into the ditch. I think we're seeing the beginning of yet another round of severe buyers' remorse around the country in states where voters swallowed the republican snake oil yet again over the past several election cycles.