Failed candidates can always buy tickets to inaugural balls
February 7th, 2008, 5:15 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Paul Giblin
A final thought on Super Tuesday…
My favorite dark horse candidates failed in their attempts to win Arizona’s presidential preference elections.
Democrat Sandy Whitehouse, a Tucson-area resident who ran on the platform that she would cut government spending by saving a line of type on all presidential correspondence, garnered 577 votes. That came just 200,814 votes shy of fellow challenger Hillary Clinton’s winning total.
Meanwhile, Republican Michael P. Shaw, a Glendale resident who said he ran to represent the ’hood and the God of Israel, attracted 59 votes. That was a mere 227,701 votes short of rival John McCain’s tally.
Alas, there’s always 2012. Remember that McCain didn’t do so hot the first time he ran for president either.
