Braun would have to be a composite Akin-Mourdouch-Moore-Angle-O'Donnell specimen for this to happen.
Nominating Braun was risky. Messer and Rokita were both elected officials with known positions and track records. Braun was a comparative unknown. From the get-go he was either going to turn out to be a massively successful candidate or a dud with skeletons in his closet. Funny enough, after all this time, he still exists in that state of "unknown". We really don't know a lot about the guy's record, although the stuff that's coming out, like the Chinese made products stuff, doesn't reflect well on him.
