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| Party-Backed Democrat Lost Election to Guy Who Didn't Campaign - Or Even Vote |
| 2015-08-07 |
| [FREEBEACON] The Mississippi Democratic Party received a shock this week when its favored candidate lost in the primary to a truck driver who didn't spend a single cent on his campaign and says that he was too busy to vote for himself. 46-year-old Robert Gray won the gubernatorial primary with more than 50 percent of the vote. He carried all but three of the state's counties. He got a call from his mother on election day who was excited that she voted for a candidate with her son's name--she didn't know it was actually him because he hadn't told any of his family or friends that he was even running. Gray didn't vote in the election because he "lost track of time," according to a Mississippi News Now report. He didn't campaign because he says he is "not a people person" and doesn't "like invading people's privacy." Vicki Slater, the party-backed candidate he defeated, has been actively campaigning since she announced her campaign in February. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Almost sounds like the Yippees' "Nobody for President" campaign. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-08-07 17:03 |
| #9 IIRC Nevada used to have a 'none of the above' choice till it became an embarrassment and the parties changed it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-07 15:43 |
| #8 Let's it for the progressive to trumpet this proves that there is no voter fraud. If they play that card, all it really proves is there is no anti-progressive voter fraud! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-08-07 13:24 |
| #7 Last minute position swap on the automated voting machines? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-08-07 12:01 |
| #6 The vote fraudsters got the wrong name? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-08-07 11:09 |
| #5 The most heartening thing I've read this week. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-08-07 09:51 |
| #4 Sounds like the perfect candidate. Maybe if he gets elected he will be to busy to show up for office and become the best governor is Mississippi history. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Grundy6340 2015-08-07 09:07 |
| #3 If I were deceased, I would vote for him several times as well. |
| Posted by: charger 2015-08-07 09:07 |
| #2 If I were a Dem, I would have voted for him several times! |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-08-07 08:28 |
| #1 I would have voted for him! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-08-07 02:06 |