re: Ardoin +266,000 votes/ Edwards +40,000

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Educated republicans saw through phony rispone

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Yes educated republicans support having the worst economy in the United States of America and filing lawsuits against the only industry we have left.......that's fricking rich

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Posted this in the other thread. I believe this, and push cards and poor urban areas only showing the Gov’s race, as being the main culprits.

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The culprit is that the GOP put up a shitty candidate who thought he could win only be appeasing the lowest common denominator of GOP voters and that would be enough to win.

A candidate has to to stand for something and the only thing Rispone stood for was nothing. The LA GOP was no better than the Democrats who automatically assumed that white females & males would vote for Rispone at a 90% clip.

You have to earn the educated voters vote it doesn't come because you have an R next to your name. This is what the braintrust missed and why Rispone lost.

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The culprit is that the GOP put up a shitty candidate

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No.

Voters, particularly Trump fans, put up a shitty candidate after Rispone was able to burn down Abraham's vote when he went negative against him.

Those Trump fans got a rude awakening Saturday night.

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The LA GOP was no better than the Democrats who automatically assumed that white females & males would vote for Rispone at a 90% clip.

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Dude, the LAGOP won damn near every race they were in a position to contest and even got rid of a few RINOs like Ryan Gatti for example and stopped GumboPac from getting a majority on the state supreme court with Will Crain winning.

Rispone lost because he ran a shitty campaign even with the LA GOP's help.

Case in point, the LA GOP had a brand new GOTV data model they built and gave to their political candidates up and down the ballot and they saw great success with it.

The Rispone campaign said no thanks and used an old data model from the Trump 2016 campaign and even shelled out money for it. 128K. I've seen this confirmed on Facebook from several strategists that I respect and know have inside knowledge of that campaign.

That is incompetence and arrogant hubris at display and that bubble was popped saturday night.

You've been a voice of reason on all of this, but a lot of people on this board (who accused us of being emotional voters) are showing they don't want reason, they want to share their feelings with us.

To Quote Little Ben: facts don't care about your feelings. You backed a bad candidate because you believed a political ad. Now you have to sleep in the bed you pissed in.

When my wife voted she happened to do an iMessage which did a short video. When she texted me a pic there was no vote for governor but one for SoS. They rigged the machines to remove the vote. It was a vote for Rispone.

I am not sure abandoning the GOTV model hurt Rispone all that much. That model helped maybe down the ballot and in some local races but for the statewide races I am not sure it was all that. Ardoin was going to win no matter what because no one cared all that much about that race bv and he was the name voters knew.

Rispone could not give a platform until the last week and even then it was only about a constitutional convention ( which I support) and he did not elaborate other than returning property tax rates to the locals which JBE"s adds effectively beat down.

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I can bear witness to one thing re immigration...I know young entrepreneurs who have a need for low-skilled/working people...and but for hungry immigrants who'll show up...they'd be out of business. Heard this for the last 25 years.

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i bear witness to that every single day.
i would be out of business quickly without skilled immigrant labor

Told you a few months ago how this would play out mainly because LAGOPis not good in competitive races. Overall in individual district races the GOP candidate has pretty stout advantages and in a lot of lesser statewide races. But when it comes to governor it seems to have a problem especially when the Democrat is white... look at Blanco winning after a successful Republican governor in Foster . You would have thought Jindal could have walked in.

In Louisiana to be governor you have to project a certain level of self confidence and a willingness to show a common touch. Crazy thing is that Eddie Rispone had that if you know his story and John Bel Edwards came from privilege. Eddie could not convey to others how hard he worked to be sucessful.

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but he's transparently NOT what trump and rispone said he was, they completely mis-read the electorate here, and followed the "call the opponent silly names at a rally" tactic. it didnt work, and in a way i'm glad it didnt, as apparently there are at least some voters here who arent that stupid

Completely agree with you. Rispone fricked up launching dishonest ads against Abraham early on and then Trump's push to paint Edwards as some radical leftist was absolutely disingenuous. However, the crazy thing is that many voters bit that shite sandwich.

Like you said, there is plenty to criticize Edwards over...no reason to make up bullshitee.

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Look at you two, riding your high horses into the sunset as if you really believe no one else is as perceptive as you are.

It's a 2-team contest and as usual, one team does everything in and out of the book to gain and retain control, while the other is half-filled with people who still think it's a gentleman's game.

"Oh no, a dishonest political ad?!!! I couldn't POSSIBLY vote for a politician who isn't 100% honest!" - loser Republicans