re: #451 Varek Raith

Much the same way Republicans would have won the Senate seat from Delaware when Christine O’Donnell beat the moderate Repub in the primary, and the same way Repubs continue to nominate teabag party candidates in primaries/conventions who go on to lose in the general (not all of them go on to lose of course, just some notable examples of where they have beaten a more electable candidate in a primary).