Reply #3: He probably would have survived, but after he came out on the senate floor [View All]

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and ATTACKED the Kerry-Feingold withdrawal plan for Iraq, he did so REPRESENTING the GOP position and even did so on their time.

His poll numbers after that dropped irreversibly. It was one thing to have a position similar to a few other centrist Dems, but to attack those offering honest Dem alternatives as a representative for the GOP, that was TOO MUCH for even the casual voter.