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I was following this since the primaries. According to news on the web, the GOP kingmakers didn’t like Hoffman making fools of them in 2009. Their boy Doheny won the primary. Hoffman went for the Conservative ticket again because Doheny was perceived as loyal to the same bunch of geniuses that backed ScuzzaI’maffaker. But as it turned out, after the primaries Hoffman was considered a sore loser going third party. More than that, he lacked the national attention (and funds from that attention) that Rush, Levin, and others gave him on his first go round, as one of the original salvos in the tea party movement.

I could be wrong but that’s how I was reading the articles.

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the GOP kingmakers didn’t like Hoffman making fools of them in 2009. Their boy Doheny won the primary

Exactly! Wasn't it only 40 votes he lost by? If you remember, I'd like to know what it was.

IMO, that is why Hoffman stayed in - something was very amiss.

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More than that, he lacked the national attention (and funds from that attention) that Rush, Levin, and others gave him on his first go round, as one of the original salvos in the tea party movement.

How do you mention Hoffman's national press, and leave out the Palin endorsement?