Posted on 10/29/2004 3:02:49 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Latest Verne Kennedy shows Vitter averaging 49% over three-day period. The same firm also shows state Sen. Craig Romero edging ahead of Billy Tauzin III with Charles Melconan a distant third in House District 3, making an all-Republican runoff very possible.
An all-Republican runoff in the district represented by Billy Tauzin and once represented by David Treen will be a real surprise, but it could happen. Apparently, the problem for the Democrats there is that Chris John is not catching on as the much revered John Breaux assumed that he would, and this is dragging down popular Democrat contenders in other races.
LOUISIANA PING!
Thanks for the info.
That's a surprise. I thought Knowles would win. He is a fraternity brother of Bush's. Why is Knowles losing?
Is this for true? ;-)
Because he chose to run on the ticket headed by Kerry.
There is a God in heaven and he smiles upon us!
Because he's a liberal Democrat running for the Senate from Alaska, that's why. Maybe the Moore Information poll is wrong and the election will be as close as the prior polls had shown, but I've been saying for a year now that Lisa Murkowski will end up beating Knowles by over 5% in spite of the nepotism issue because she's a Republican running for the U.S. Senate in Alaska. I hope my confidence was well placed.
Knowles is losing this time becaues he doesn't have a conservative third-party candidate to siphon votes away from the Republican. Frankly, I'm not sure I believe those poll results. I think that Murkowski is ahead but not by that margin.
Amen.
I believe part of the reason John is not catching on is because John Kennedy is splitting the Democratic vote and is confusing Democrats as to who to vote for. Both of them are trying to link the other to David Duke while Vitter continues to pile on poll numbers. Vitter could well take 50% this Tuesday.
Only LA Democrats could be confused between two of their own candidates and David Duke, who has not sought any office in six years.
I think it's "Melancon," and he is a former aide to the popular former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., who has given the maximum $2,000 contribution to John F. Kerry, well before Kerry became the party nominee.
Though LA voters thought that Johnston was a "conservative," he actually was voted in 1984 as the "biggest spender" in Congress. His friend John Kerry later took that title from J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., was descended from the Long family of politics and never met pork-barrel spending in Louisiana at least that he did not embrace.
Bill
Vitter, Jindal BUMP!!! And a GO DUBYA BUMP TO BOOT!!!
Vitter needs 50% on Teusday. I don't think he'll win a runoff.
I disagree that he can't win a runoff, but I heard this morning that a Verne Kennedy poll has Vitter at 49%, so it's looking like our worries may be for nothing.
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