# David Duke (R-LA) 2016 US Senate campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 22, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618 "2016-07-22T19:09:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/1 "2016-07-22T19:09:20Z")
[ > [@David Duke](#): > > My time has come. ]([http://elections.ap.org/content/latest-ex-kkk-leader-duke-my-time-has-come](http://elections.ap.org/content/latest-ex-kkk-leader-duke-my-time-has-come)) Is this convicted felon and former leader of the Ku Klux Klan right? Has his time come? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/2 "2016-07-22T19:29:17Z")
In Louisiana? With Trump as the ® Presidential Candidate? All I can say for sure is – Duke won’t find a _better_ time. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/3 "2016-07-22T20:18:40Z")
Sieg Heil, Y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/4 "2016-07-23T00:33:50Z")
Everybody… _Springtime, for Hitler, in New Orleans…_ ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/5 "2016-07-23T00:35:21Z")
ran for senate in 1990 and got 43% of the vote as a Klan member ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/6 "2016-07-23T00:51:06Z")
Time to dig out those 1991 [bumper stickers from the Edwards-Duke campaign](http://photos.nola.com/tpphotos/2011/12/175duke.html). ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/7 "2016-07-23T01:05:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by David Duke > My time has come. No place to run… ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/8 "2016-07-23T01:39:27Z")
Nothing to say, really. I just like typing David Duke (R-LA). ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/9 "2016-07-23T02:35:19Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Sieg Heil, Y’all. Sieg Y’eil. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/10 "2016-07-24T13:03:46Z")
I’m certainly rooting for David Duke to win! It’s not as though he’d be taking the seat away from a rational thinker — whoever does become the Junior Senator from Louisiana will have drunk the Hate-Hillary Kool-Aid. Now is the perfect opportunity to rub Republicans’ noses in the stench of what their Party has become. Let’s hope the Democrats sweep “purple” America and that “deep red” America becomes enough of a caricature that even Republicans will see it. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duke-r-la-2016-us-senate-campaign/760618/11 "2016-07-24T18:54:48Z")
Hopefully, Duke will get the clobbering he deserves, but sadly, I can’t be sure of it. Thanks so much for reminding me that I need to be embarrassed for the state I was born in, as well as the one I live in. 😛