Perhaps most significantly, Mr. Keyes ran such an utterly inept race for his Senate run that his opponent didn’t need to campaign against him to be assured of winning. This freed up his opponent to run around the country headlining fundraisers for other Democrats and sending his own previously non-existent name recognition into the stratosphere. If we end up with Barack Obama as President, it will be thanks to Alan Keyes.
“Perhaps most significantly, Mr. Keyes ran such an utterly inept race for his Senate run that his opponent didn’t need to campaign against him to be assured of winning. This freed up his opponent to run around the country headlining fundraisers for other Democrats and sending his own previously non-existent name recognition into the stratosphere. If we end up with Barack Obama as President, it will be thanks to Alan Keyes.”
Yup. Had we run a Republican nobody, it would have been 60%/40% race, but Keyes managed it so well he turned off almost 1/2 the Republicans and it became a 70%/28% race in favor of Obama. Obama owes his career to Keyes. I hope he sent a thank you note.
Indeed, Obama's record-breaking senate win against Keyes gave him the chutzpah to run for President. Nevermind the lopsided result was more a vote against Keyes than a vote for Obama.