Posted on 06/11/2014 5:32:28 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
DAMMIT South Carolina, CLOSE YOUR PRIMARIES!
Not only state v congressional district, but a state where a lot of the citizens do not pay attention, versus a congressional district where everyone is consumed by politics and government. Big big big diff. When Cantor strayed, everyone knew it because everyone follows that stuff, without Brat having to buy ads to tell people.
Graham strayed and strayed and strayed, and a lot of good ole boys in SC never realize it.
no chance for Hutto. None.
Unless Graham is caught on tape with a young shemale…..
I totally agree...conservatives there should have known that...
A great opportunity wasted.
Exactly. 5 or 6 options split the support so graham easily won
That was not the factor. The NY Post comparison is flawed. Turnout had little to do with Dem cross overs. Cantors antics and the border mess Obama started ginned people up to turn out, as did Levin and Ingraham.
NYP analysis is foolish.
Everybody keeps talking about how great states with runoffs are but it sure doesn’t seem to be bearing much fruit. Seems that these races with 6 or 7 candidates are just increasing the incumbent advantage.
There was a 50% threshold, so having a big field was helpful in that regard.
That could explain the extreme divergence from the polls.
Quite true. An excess of primary challengers favors the incumbent.
Graham may be a better politician than Cochran (who at this point I’m sure is senile), but Graham did have two disadvantages Cochran did not which should have made him very vulnerable, especially to someone who had a solid voting record like Bright.
1) Graham was far less popular with the state GOP than Cochran was. He had been censured several times. Meanwhile, Cochran had Haley Barbour in full campaign mode and that man carries a lot of weight in Mississippi(no pun intended)
2) Graham was a much more hated and obvious target nationally. As bad as Cochran is, he’s a quiet backbencher, and Lindsey was target #1 going into primary season.
This being said, Bright did do well with the money he did have. Though I’ll say Det Bowers was a surprise, going from 1% in the polls to what he ended up with, 7%. Mace (who was obviously the most anticipated candidate going in) failed spectacularly throughout. Totally not ready for primetime.
Evey situation is different. The problem here was not the large field. There were other problems, but that was not it.
Bright came into the race with only two other challengers at the time. Failed congressional candidate, Richard Cash, and the heir apparent-Nancy Mace, who performed badly in interviews.
What do you mean by “there’s another Ryan running” against Ryan? Just curious. Thanks.
(I don’t want ANOTHER Lyin’ Ryan!)
Graham quelled those endorsements you refer too with back room deals. This was not a failing on Lee’s part. It was a good move by Graham to do this early early early on, and shows the weakness of some people you probably over estimate from sC….one in particular, who I will not mention, because he’s recently been given a huge assignment.
In other words: Bad.
You really don’t understand all the factors in this race. Per dollar spent, Bright outperformed every other candidate by a landslide. He was the only one running aggressively against LG. Two others were probably running to establish name ID for future smaller races, and they stayed “above it all” and did nothing to make anyone mad….but they sure as heck weren’t running hard.
You’re right about Mace. Cash suffers huge lack of charisma.
Could be true... I don’t get open primaries in the least, this is the dumbest idea in existence.
13 million to 3 million war chests, that’s what happened. Money always wins......Sickening.
Voter stupidity.
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