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Originally Posted by archer2371
Plus carpetbagging is never very popular, unless you have extreme name recognition, which the Senator has. Just look at Alan Keyes for cryin out loud, the man got his ass kicked, then handed to him on a silver platter, he was portrayed as a carpetbagger who didn't understand the issues facing Illinois. Regardless I don't think he would have won anyways, but the carpetbagging hurt him a lot.
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Everyone knows his utterly KooKoo politics which turn off everyone this side of Jerry Falwell ensured he had no chance in the race, but it wasn't the carpetbagging that hurt him so much as the hypocracy over carpetbagging. And that was really only the icing on the cake. Frankly I am surprised that Keyes got as many votes as he did. 27% of the vote with almost 1.4 million votes for him is.... alarming.