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Totally Plucked: What Happened To Sue Lowden's Once Formidable Campaign?
Eric Kleefeld | June 7, 2010, 3:18PM


With tomorrow's Nevada primary coming up, it's worth looking back on the many gaffes and errors of former state GOP chair Sue Lowden, whose once-mighty Senate campaign has fallen behind Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle. Simply put, the chickens have come home to roost for what may be one of the worst-run Senate primary campaigns of this cycle.

Lowden shot to national fame in April, when she was caught on tape telling people to barter with their doctors in order to lower health care costs. Her other policy prescription for people grappling with expensive health care: "And if you want to save $20,000, good for you. Save it pre-tax."

A week later, Lowden dug in on the barter system: "Let's change the system and talk about what the possibilities are. I'm telling you that this works. You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days, our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor. They would say I'll paint your house."

"Very few candidates can withstand ridicule, I think," said Ted Jelen, a political science professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, in an interview with TPMDC. He added: "The chicken stuff, it made what had been an inevitability a good deal more competitive."

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1. Great headline! LOL