We keep falling back on “voter fraud” whenever we lose a race, but it’s a crutch. I find it exasperating: voter fraud just doesn’t exist on any significant level, but if we pretend that it does we don’t have to face up to our mistakes. I’d rather take our lumps and honestly evaluate the race so we don’t repeat our mistakes.
From the outside, it sure seems like the Dems were pushing the “war hero v. whoremonger” meme. That’s a hard one to overcome once settled in, especially when the incumbent Republican governor is seen as such a failure. We needed somebody who could rise above Jindal’s coat tails dragging him down, but Vitter wasn’t the guy.
Vitter won statewide twice, whoremonger title and all.
Angelle and Darden were put up by Jindal and other Country Club Republicans specifically to keep Vitter from winning. And they succeeded. Vitter announced for Governor nearly two years ago, and he’s had consistently high poll numbers. The two RINOs never could have gotten the conservative vote here, but they cut Vitter up enough in the primary to cripple him for the runoff.
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