Should maness drop out of senate race?

Its one of those times where I support his right to run but wish he would abandon his campaign at the same time.

I think at this point, you let everything take its course. We will deal with Mary in the run-off and it won't be good for her. It's really not going to make a big difference. The office changes hands in January regardless of whether she is defeated in November or December.

He should have dropped out before ballots are printed.

If he does now, he will be on ballot and any votes for him are simply wasted.

I'm going to be Ragin pisses if RM costs us the Senate

I agree Ghost. Something doesn't smell right with Maness. No doubt Mary would lose if he wasn't in it.

I hear Maness made a complete arse of himself on an afternoon talk show in Lafayette yesterday.

Maness was a Landrieu plant to begin with

Why can't we grow some balls and support a conservative candidate. shite!!

"You're so concerned with squabbling for the scraps from Longshank's table that you've missed your God given right to something better."

OK that quote is a bit much but I'm so sick of career politicians!!!

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I hear Maness made a complete arse of himself on an afternoon talk show in Lafayette yesterday.

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Do tell....details...

I see tea party friends pushing Maness on FB and I want to tell them that they might as well be campaigning for Landrieu.

Pragmatism, people. Pragmatism.

Maness may be more politically aligned with the tea party types, but he has no chance to win. By supporting him, all they are doing is helping Landrieu.

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I see tea party friends pushing Maness on FB and I want to tell them that they might as well be campaigning for Landrieu.

Maness may be more politically aligned with the tea party types, but he has no chance to win. By supporting him, all they are doing is helping Landrieu.

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Scoop, though a bit of a different situation, just wanted you to know that here in NH we're dealing with that same sort of sore-loser, "if-my-guy-can't-win-yours'-can't-either" mentality.

Scott Brown won the NH Republican Senate primary in September in a 10-man race with exactly 50% of the vote. Must be a registered Republican in NH to vote in the primary. In a Boston Herald poll two weeks ago, the following stunning revelation appeared:

- Among those voters who voted for one of the 9 Brown primary opponents, 48% said they will vote for Brown on Tuesday and 42% said they will vote for the ultra-liberal Obamabot Jeanne Shaheen. That makes absolutely no sense at all, because you can't find a more hardcore Democrat than Shaheen. 9% of that group said they are undecided. Even if Brown gets them all (not likely, obviously), the difference in winning or losing on Tuesday can be traced to those Republican primary voters who it seems would rather vote for someone they all despised before the primary voting than vote for the guy who defeated their guy, even though the two primary candidates Brown defeated, each who had 23% of the vote, both endorsed Brown within days of the primary.

Makes no sense at all.

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Pragmatism, people. Pragmatism.

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That's it right there. You nailed it. The Dems don't pull stupid crap like this, and that's one of the reasons they prosper. They don't eat their own.

"Brown got the primary he expected. In fact, there were nine other Republicans who decided to run against him! Yes, he won easily, getting 50 percent of the vote, while his Republican opponents split the rest.

Since that time, Brown has engaged Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in ads linking her to the unpopular president. The ads have had some impact, as Shaheen’s 49 percent-39 percent lead is now just 49 percent-46 percent.

The result: Shaheen has not grown, and Brown keeps picking up points. That’s the good news for the former Massachusetts senator.

The bad news is that some of his home base is bitter, and even today — with two weeks to go — they can’t bring themselves to vote for Brown with the kind of wide margins that he expects and needs to close out his race with his home base.

According to the Suffolk University/Boston Herald poll released yesterday, among self-identified Republican primary voters who voted for one of the other nine candidates, Brown led Shaheen 48 percent to 42 percent, with 9 percent undecided. That’s a Republican subcategory that has to break 85-10 for Brown. So it looks like Shaheen is stealing some of Brown’s home base"

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