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Even after election, Keyes running badly
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| Last Edited | None Entered Nov 18, 2004 12:39pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - News Gazette |
| News Date | Monday, November 8, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The campaign is over, and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes lost. But he's still talking, and his post-election rhetoric isn't likely to be accepted any better than his pre-election statements.
Following the landslide victory Tuesday by Democratic state Sen. Barack Obama, Keyes is blaming his decision on the news media and "Republicans in name only." Given the strong views he aired during the campaign, it should be no surprise that Keyes is sparing himself from responsibility for the election debacle.
Of course, this was never a campaign that the Republicans were going to win, not after GOP primary winner Jack Ryan dropped off the ballot and state Republicans had to go all the way to Maryland to get Keyes to run. But Keyes' pitiful showing and his complete lack of crediblity as a candidate ought to be a message to zealots on both the right and left sides of the political spectrum: angry rhetoric that demonizes the opposition doesn't attract enough votes to win.
There is no question that Keyes is a very bright guy and an extremely articulate speaker. But the main qualities he displayed in the campaign–qualities more befitting a fire-and-brimstone preacher than a candidate for public office–were the antithesis of what people want and expect in a legislator. That Keyes seems oblivious to that reality after the shellacking he took only demonstrates further what a poor choice the GOP made. |
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