[House Atreides]

[Terrible candidate, went to a football game on the weekend instead of campaigning.]
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It’s one thing to lack charisma, and quite another to compound it with laziness.
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And he further compounded it with STUPIDITY. Right before the election he said on camera “We’ll, if you think I dated teen girls, don’t vote for me”. The media gleefully broadcast that widely.

[Zhang Fei]

[And he further compounded it with STUPIDITY. Right before the election he said on camera “We’ll, if you think I dated teen girls, don’t vote for me”. The media gleefully broadcast that widely.]

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It was fairly clear even in 2012 that Moore was just not that great a candidate. Romney’s (aka the Yankee heretic’s) victory over Obama in AL was 22.4% larger than Moore’s victory over his opponent for the position of AL Chief Justice. Moore came within 2% of becoming a senator in 2017. He could have prevailed over the establishment with just a little more sweat. But he chose not to.