Posted on 11/03/2010 3:20:27 PM PDT by Drango
In the gerrymander-gone-awry California 11th congressional district, sprawling across four counties from Gilroy to Lodi, incumbent Democrat Jerry McNerney is ahead 121 votes to GOP challenger David Harmer:
McNerney 82,124 votes, 47.5%
Harmer 82,003 votes 47.4%
A third party spoiler, Tracy's David Christensen of the conservative American Independent Party, has 8,809 or 5.1%
That's with all precincts reporting as of 5:41 a.m. It would appear that Harmer would have won had Christensen not been in the race.
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Another third party loser who just spoils the race for the Republican who can win. We probably lost 10 or more House seats because of fools like this, and probably lost the Nevada Senate race too.
In other words your candidate was too weak to attract votes from a nobody in a nothing party. No wonder he lost.
Don’t blame the voters for actually having a preference and not choosing who you like.
The TEA Party was 100% behind Harmer. He’s very conservative. The AIP can go...%$@*& themselves.
We could have successful third parties if it weren’t for the electoral college. I would like to replace it with race between all interested candidates. If no candidate got a majority of votes, then there would be a run off between the top two candidates.
The infamous Hammerhead-Shark District has claimed another victim.
A third party spoiler, Tracy's David Christensen of the conservative American Independent Party, has 8,809 or 5.1%
Where did this unknown AIP candidate get enough $$$ to get 5% of votes? It would fit the template of a typical rat stategy: fund a third-party candidate to syphon away votes from the GOP. That’s what they did to steal DeLay’ district in 2006, among many others.
Concurring bump.
Perhaps those AIP voters would not have voted at all if there was no AIP candidate in the race.
The new ballot system can’t get here soon enough..... Boxer would of only one by 4-5% points on the right ballot, not nearly the blowout 10% points. Rossi has a fighting chance up there beause their is no libertian who took 63000 votes last time on the ballot.
Please notice post #5. Drango was a strong, tea party conservative. In a case like that, only an idiot votes third party. It’s not the candidate’s fault some people live in Wonderland with Alice and the big bunny.
Why don’t pubbies run a green or peace and freedom candidate? Why is it that pubbies are so effin naive? Its war out there and the dems know how to battle. Running a third party against your opponent just makes good sense and is entirely within “fair play” politics, especially when its to neutralize the third party running against pubbies. A greenie or peace and freedom candidate likely would have drawn many votes from Mcnurdly.
Americans exercising their rights...gotta love’m.
That level of duplicity isn't in Conservatives' DNA.
Besides that, none of us physically handle all of the vomiting such pretension would induce.
Its not any more duplicitous than a running back faking to the left and going right, or leading on an enemy that you are goint to attack one place and then going for another instead, as per D-day. We are at war, and unless we get over this naivete and pollyannish attitude we will continue to be hammered like we were in CA 11 and Nevada.
Yes, we must be limited by morals and ethics, but faking it is all within fair play in politics. As for not being able to handle the vomiting “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
My problem with running a green candidate or someone else is that some of the activity/support/inducement MAY be illegal. I’m not at all sure where the line is, and I don’t want to come close to it.
We should run some unknown unseen candidates under the “Black Panther Party” name and watch how many clueless African Americans throw away their votes in the name of “racial pride”.
Amen. I'm sick to death of whiny republicans.
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