But the people in this state have a bad taste for Ryan's - starting with the last governor of that name. Moral turpitude of an elected Republican official will keep social conservatives home for years. And when the GOP keeps running people of the same name and people with other moral "issues" it brings all the past forward and it snowballs.
Keyes is clean, is not a "Ryan" and is truly a social conservative. The people who elected Fitzgerald can still be inspired to vote - but it'll take a lot of work.
The problem is that the same people in here rah-rahing about Keyes's certain victory, will turn around and place the blame for the loss on the GOP.
If they can't see just what an impossible task Keyes has ahead of him now, they will never accept the fact that the defeat came about for any reason other than the National GOP "turned" on Keyes.
You watch.