Jim Webb Forms Exploratory Committee

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14. I think you really covered the differences in losses well in your post.

You can lose local and come back and run again for a different seat, or even the same one again. Nothing wrong with that. It could have been timing, the wrong position, or a lack of support which lead to the loss in the previous race, these things happen in politics. I really don't think a loss is a death sentence to a political career depending on the circumstances of the loss.

As for O'Malley, I'm afraid his largest potential financial backers are the ones who will judge him the most harshly for his recent loss. I wanted to see him in the fray, I don't deny it, but it's looking less likely now. Which is something I find disappointing, and hope proves to be wrong. He has/had a lot to offer to the primaries.

As to Schweitzer, I think he's done but he's still put all of the stock he has left into 2016 so he may attempt a run. I've not heard if he has any real support left to make a go of it, though. If he does, I don't think he'll survive the primary. He has more than his image problems from his last slip of the tongue to overcome, he still has to learn how to manage his verbiage under a national spotlight. Which is no easy feat in this day and age.