Alan Keyes had his chance for fame when he ran against Barack Obama for the Senate in Illinois. He ran one of the worst campaigns in American political history, and lost in a humongous blowout.
Alan Keyes is an idiot, and a very mean and nasy man.
How do you know what kind of campaign Keyes ran?
No one is telling the truth anymore, not the media, not RINOs, nobody.
And I HIGHLY SUGEST you do yourself a favor and look at why Keyes ran in that election and when he actually got in the race. The RINO who was running gotten taken out at the last minute {86 days before the general election} due to a sex scandal. The GOP HAD NO ONE TO RUN FOR THE SEAT remember??? Others had declined. KEYES WAS ASKED TO RUN BY THE ILLINOIS GOP AT THE VERY LAST MINUTE. No Republican could have pulled that off no not even Palin.
Considering he was running in a near socialist state as bad or worse leaning DEM as Maryland {due to Chicago} he did the best he could do.
Running in that state against the corrupt Chicago political machine is difficult under ideal circumstance. His running {since all others declined and he was drafted by the state GOP} was under such circumstance which by no means made him a Carpetbagger.