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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGov. Jim Gilmore spent six months in Iowa and got 12 votes...
I heard them talking about this on KSR radio. One guy said he could go to the mall for an hour and get more votes than that...
They felt sorry for him.
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Gov. Jim Gilmore spent six months in Iowa and got 12 votes... (Original Post)
kentuck
Feb 2016
OP
The Velveteen Ocelot
(130,487 posts)1. That's pretty sad.
You're dead, Jim.

Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)2. Hey, 12% isn't bad!
Oh wait....... 12 votes?
Jarqui
(10,906 posts)3. a good ficticious name on the ballot would get much more nt
Wouldn't he look at the polls ...? How could he keep going? I guess he figured he might as well burn through the campaign cash (which wasn't a lot $300k). He had $50k left at the end of last year
underpants
(196,439 posts)4. The GILMOREmentum is growing!!!
I read elsewhere that "other" got 119 votes
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)5. This guy was the Republican Gray Davis
The absolute strongest emotion he stirs in even the most partisan Republican is near total indifference.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)6. Unhappy Gilmore