It's hard to believe that if not for a constitution party candidate, Republicans would have still held this seat (Smith wins w/o Constitution in 2008, he wins in 2014, because of the wave), instead the OR GOP has now been reduced to nominating a conspiracy theorist crazy for the Senate, crazy how much third parties can swing things sometimes.
The reason Perkins got the nomination, is the OR GOP didnt run anyone for this seat really so all you got were 3 crazy candidates and on the pamplet , Perkins seemed like the least crazy one .
How bad were the other two? They had to pretty bad if she was the sanest