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GarroHorus

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5. I think it was a matter of not wanting to throw good money after bad.

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:59 AM

Jun 2012

The stupidest move in the entire recall was putting up the guy who lost by such a wide margin in 2010.

Funny how he lost by more the second go. It's sort of like how the Democratic Party put Adlai Stevenson up in 1956 after he lost in 1952.

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I think it was a matter of not wanting to throw good money after bad. GarroHorus Jun 2012 #5

Yeah, that candidate . . . ArcticFox Jun 2012 #6

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