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To: BillyBoy

“Some Other Candidate” gets only 9%. But you’re right it seemingly doesn’t mention the other 2 by name. Hopefully the air will be sucked out of their campaigns by Toomey.

Luksik has some hardcore supporters around here though...


64 posted on 04/25/2009 11:16:47 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy
Luksik ran as the Constitution Party nominee in a couple of elections and got record levels of support for a third party candidate, she's got a pretty loyal fan base. It can be argued she's to the right of Toomey. They also tend to have different core conservative constituents. Toomey's major background in his fiscal conservative credentials from the Club for Growth (though he's also a solid social conservative), whereas Luksik is known for her outspoken social conservative family values activism (though she's also a solid fiscal conservative). Of course Toomey has the better track record of winning elections of the two, since Luksik has never won anything. (though I'm sure her supporters will claim she's the better conservative and accuse Toomey of being the spoiler for not dropping out and "getting behind" her, just like the Oberweis crowd claimed it was all Bill Brady's fault for 2006 when both of them were to blame, and the fact Oberweis' track record was 0-3 meant nothing to them)

Larry Murphy did get a nice "anti-Specter" chuck of protest votes when he was Specter's sole challenger in 1998 -- receiving nearly 20% -- but I expect he'll drop to single digits with Luksik and Toomey both on the ballot. One of the more interesting things about his candidacy is he's the only black candidate running for Senate, and is also a staunch conservative.

65 posted on 04/25/2009 11:28:04 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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