The front-running "Republican" (whatever the heck that is nowadays) would have been well over 50% .... right?
How? Maness parachuted into the state after an Air Force career and claimed “tea party” bona fides. Many “low information conservatives” swallowed the bait and voted for him, regardless that Cassidy is plenty conservative.
Maness never lived here for any length of time, raised a family here, worked in any campaigns, or any such thing.
Yet lots of folks who should have known better voted for him. Of course, the drive by media also kept him propped up with plenty of free publicity.
Louisiana has a jungle primary. All may run but the winner needs more than 50%. It encourages people to be honest in their support on the first go. It was originally meant to keep Republicans down but now it’s encouraging Republicans to be conservative and keeping Dems at the edge as they no longer run state politics.
It’s a good system. Kept Cassidy on his toes.
Maness is getting with Cassidy and I seriously doubt Mary has a chance. Easily 4/5 of Maness votes will teansfer over. I can see it going 53/47 at best for her.
The biggest argument she had was clout and that just got knocked down a peg.
yes it’s the dumb 3rd party crap ,divide and conquer. divide the conservative vote and the democrat/socialist wins
we lost a couple of races cause of the libertarian and or 3rd party candidates in Virginia (senate) and other races. it would have been an even more monumental rout if not for the 3rd party crap