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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 
the sorest loser
via tdw, i see that wish-tv's jim shella is now saying what i've been saying since wednesday: that dickerson supporters are sore losers. in fact, shella goes a step further and crowns them "the sorest losers of 2006".

shella's blog doesn't have permalinks to individual posts, so i can't link to the entry itself. so i'll be a bastard and repost the whole entry.

A week has gone by since the election and we still don't have the ballots counted in Marion County. Outraged Democrats repeatedly suggest that Iraqi elections were more efficient than the one conducted here, and they may have a point.

One of the things we don't know is the final margin in the 7th District Congressional race between Democrat Julia Carson and Republican Eric Dickerson. It looks, however, like Carson will gather the same 54% of the vote she took in two years ago.

Nevertheless, based on talkradio and my e-mail inbox, the supporters of Dickerson deserve recognition for being sore losers, the sorest losers of 2006. They blame the Republican Party for a lack of support and the media for accurately predicting that Carson would win. They can't understand why anyone would vote for Julia Carson. (Please note that the candidate has not been heard from.)

They ignore the fact that the 7th is largely Democrat, that Carson has a long history of service, and her turnout operation may be unmatched in Indiana. The Congresswoman may be old, ill, and sometimes less than articulate.

But they held an election and she won, fair and square.

i'm reading that parenthetical note (that "the candidate has not been heard from") as an indication that, a week after election day, dickerson has still not conceded the election, despite the fact that it's been obvious since 10pm election night that he had lost. tdw agrees. it seems that inability to admit a mistake (or worse yet, defeat) is a trait dickerson shares with his supporters.


2 comments:
Around 10pm or so, Amos Brown reached Eric D celebrating at his $1500 victory party out by the airport. Amos tactfully asked on air when Eric would concede - Eric sputtered that he was only several hundred votes behind - that he still would win! Sadly enough, at that time, Eric was over 7000 votes behind in the count. It's now over a 10,000 vote spread.

CNN called it for Carson at 10:22pm ¶

Actually, guys like Gary Welsh and his ilk at AI helped create the venemous atmospher of racism and hate that developed over the past few months by working in concert on AI's blog. Aapparently Dickerson's people were deep in the thick of it all.

Sick.

Let's move on. They've revealed what they are and what they're about. And being sore losers is the least of their problems. ¶

—posted by Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:33 PM, November 14, 2006  

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