Bull. There are too many “tea party” challengers—splitting the vote.
I haven’t looked at the story, but I bet the entire “no Lindsey” vote exceeds the “yes Lindsey” vote.
This is the problem with trying to oust an incumbent—there are head-fake candidates and other well-meaning challengers who want to replace the incumbent. They each siphon off a small portion of the electorate, which means the big name wins by default.
You are correct that there is a huge anti Lindsey vote….and among Republicans and conservatives, it does exceed the pro Lindsey vote.
At this point, the split is not a problem. The idea is to keep LG below 50% in the primary round one……
So having a few in there will help actually. And in January, expect a certain candiate to emerge as “the” Tea Party candidate.
In the SC pubbie primary any candidate must get 50%+1 to win; so if there are 5 candidates and linda grammy gets 46% and the 4 get the remaining 54% the candidate with the second most votes is now in a run off against linda.
This is the time when the conservatives MUST stick together and if they do, linda retires to the fag farm with prissy little goats.
“but I bet the entire “no Lindsey” vote exceeds the “yes Lindsey” vote.”
And that’s all that matters. If Linda gets less than 50% in the primary, she’ll face the next highest vote-getter in a one-on-one runoff primary.