Then one of the conservatives should have dropped out so the other could win. Too much ego costs us elections.
Tell that to Maness in Louisiana (who won’t get more than 15% but will keep conservative Congressman Bill Cassidy from reaching 50% on Election Day, thus giving liberal Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu a second chance in a December runoff. Any attempt to tell lower-polling conservatives to drop out so that the conservative vote doesn’t get split among several conservatives usually is met with “no, *you* drop out.”