We knew as soon as we wrote yesterday’s poll that we’d made a fatal mistake. There was no way Katherine Harris could lose it. It’s our fault as much as hers - the poor woman can barely fire a campaign manager before we start alleging that she’s a bad candidate. So Harris won the poll with 42.7%. Ho-hum. What about the rest of the Worst Campaigners in America?

At #2 with 17.8% of the vote, we’ve got Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi (pictured above). The old trope about politics - “Hollywood for ugly people” - has rarely been as true as it is in New York, where this mutton-faced schlub is considered “dashing” and “handsome” and possessing “charisma to burn.” Tom’s problem: He believed his hype. So he ran against one of the most famous and popular men in American politics, Eliot Spitzer, on a platform of firing the rest of the state’s politicians and putting tolls on the Long Island Expressway. Somehow, he failed to get any traction whatsoever.

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