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NC Primary 2018 Results: Pittenger Loses GOP Primary In Upset

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Beaudreaux said:
A good start at what, may I ask? The guy that won that GOP primary is a right wing extremist. What happens if by some miracle he actually wins the general election? Which is possible in the NC 9th. That would be a step backwards. IMHO.
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Miracles do happen, they mostly don't. If they don't, as expected, it's a replay of the Harry Reid/Sharron Angle race in which the very unpopular Reid won re-election because the Republicans voted for a right-wing candidate who was sharply more unpopular to the general electorate.

What's going on is that Republican primary voters are the most conservative and elect candidates in primaries that have a harder chance of winning the general election.
 
MTAtech said:
Miracles do happen, they mostly don't. If they don't, as expected, it's a replay of the Harry Reid/Sharron Angle race in which the very unpopular Reid won re-election because the Republicans voted for a right-wing candidate who was sharply more unpopular to the general electorate.

What's going on is that Republican primary voters are the most conservative and elect candidates in primaries that have a harder chance of winning the general election.
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It may take another generation before it happens, but I see a battleline in the GOP that will result in the party being split into no less than two separate parties.
 
Beaudreaux said:
It may take another generation before it happens, but I see a battleline in the GOP that will result in the party being split into no less than two separate parties.
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i believe it only took two national election cycles for the whigs to open their tent to become the republican party
 
justabubba said:
i believe it only took two national election cycles for the whigs to open their tent to become the republican party
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Anything is possible. I see the new group, if they do splinter off, pulling moderate Democrats our of the Democratic party as well. Neither party seems to care about the middle - be it the middle of the country or the middle of the ideological political spectrum.

Edit: I've never been a fan of Robert Pittenger. Even way back when he was a Texas Carpet Bagger running to be a local politician and then later got elected (somehow) to the state senate, I always thought he was a little too much on the hollier than though side - not religiously, just arrogantly, and ignorant of real issues facing real people. My congressman asked me to support Pittenger and told him "hell no" point blank. He was surprised, to say the least, at my reaction to his request.

Edite #2: The problem with GOP primaries right now, and keeping with your tent analogy, the politicians that make it through it give me the feeling that someone closed the tent flaps and tide them closed after farting in the damned tent.
 
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Beaudreaux said:
Anything is possible. I see the new group, if they do splinter off, pulling moderate Democrats our of the Democratic party as well. Neither party seems to care about the middle - be it the middle of the country or the middle of the ideological political spectrum.

Edit: I've never been a fan of Robert Pittenger. Even way back when he was a Texas Carpet Bagger running to be a local politician and then later got elected (somehow) to the state senate, I always thought he was a little too much on the hollier than though side - not religiously, just arrogantly, and ignorant of real issues facing real people. My congressman asked me to support Pittenger and told him "hell no" point blank. He was surprised, to say the least, at my reaction to his request.

Edite #2: The problem with GOP primaries right now, and keeping with your tent analogy, the politicians that make it through it give me the feeling that someone closed the tent flaps and tide them closed after farting in the damned tent.
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Keeping with the tent analogy, pitching a tent made from white sheets is a good indication of who the GOP is now dominated and driven by.
 
MTAtech said:
Miracles do happen, they mostly don't. If they don't, as expected, it's a replay of the Harry Reid/Sharron Angle race in which the very unpopular Reid won re-election because the Republicans voted for a right-wing candidate who was sharply more unpopular to the general electorate.

What's going on is that Republican primary voters are the most conservative and elect candidates in primaries that have a harder chance of winning the general election.
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Or none in the general. Remember Aiken in Missouri and Mourdock in Indiana in 2012? Remember in Alaska the Republicans nominated Joe Miller. But Murkowski saved the GOP butts by running and winning as an independent. Then there was Alabama and Roy Moore along with O'Donnell back in 2010. The GOP has a long history of nominating these right wing wackos for seats they should win easily only to have them go down in defeat in the general.

There's the distinct possibility that the Republicans could lose the senate because of the seat they gave away by nominating Roy Moore. The Democrats now only need a net gain of two instead of three if the Republicans in Alabama would have stuck with Strange or another candidate besides Moore. Such is life in the GOP.
 
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