Nope. The race was lost before that happened.
As I asserted before, in my opinion when you only lose by 10,000 votes, the race cannot be considered to be “won” or “lost” at any time up to the day of the election.
To expand on my opinion of the race, Allen was not seen as the sharpest tack, but he WAS seen as a “good old boy”, a nice person who while conservative could be trusted to be of good character.
Macaca cracked that armor of “likeability”, and the month-long “n-word” fest, along with his objections to the “jewish” question (understandable because of his mother, but still an issue), destroyed that aspect of his reputation.
And once he wasn’t a good old boy, anything he said or did had the chance to alienate voters. Going after Webb for the n-word simply made it as if the n-word issue WAS important, going after Webb for the books looked petty and churlish.
And he got scared to appear in places, he didn’t use his charm to overcome adversity. I blame his staff for that, but he chose those “people” so it was ultimately his fault.
But who knows. Maybe he lost because of the Internet Gambling bill.
Exactly Flora. The reality is that they pulled the "porn" stuff out because it was all they had left.