Who ran the worst campaign this year (D&R)

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I voted Webb, though as noted above, he didn't really run a campaign, he just stood there for about 20 seconds.

Voted Jeb on the R side, though it was a cavalcade of fail on the R side this year.

With regards to Webb, you could say the same thing about Jim Gilmore on the Republican side.

I voted for Jeb! but I forget about Scott Walker when voting.  I don't know though that those who dropped out before the primaries started really ran the same type of campaign as those who were still in the race.  Maybe the Republicans should be split in those two separate categories.

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Webb and Jeb. 

Unfortunately the Jim(my) Webb who ran is the one who wrote what is generally considered to be one of the worst songs of all time, MacArthur Park, and not the (same) Jim(my) Webb who wrote the classics Galveston and Wichita Lineman among others.

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I voted Webb, though as noted above, he didn't really run a campaign, he just stood there for about 20 seconds.

Voted Jeb on the R side, though it was a cavalcade of fail on the R side this year.

With regards to Webb, you could say the same thing about Jim Gilmore on the Republican side.

I voted for Jeb! but I forget about Scott Walker when voting.  I don't know though that those who dropped out before the primaries started really ran the same type of campaign as those who were still in the race.  Maybe the Republicans should be split in those two separate categories.

But nobody ever cared about Gilmore (except Atlas, of course.) Webb got a lot more hype since he was the first to enter the race.

Webb is a good answer. Remember all the hype he got? (much appeal to the southern Democrats etc.)

Though on that point, if we're going by hype, O'Malley definitely beats Webb there. The pundits were insisting in early-mid 2015 that he would become Hillary's main challenger (if Warren and Biden didn't run, lol.) Instead he got 0.5% in a state he camped out in for a year then dropped out.

Despite his terrible approval ratings when he left as governor of Virginia, on paper Gilmore's resume should have made him somewhat of a credible candidate.  Had he campaigned more actively I'm sure he would at least have received more than 12 votes in Iowa and 133 votes in New Hampshire.