I didn’t even know that Mike O’Donnell was running in the race until I saw the race results. How did an unknown candidate like Mike O’Donnell manage to garner as many votes as a national political figure like Tina Peters?
This question, ladies and gentlemen, is what leads you down the rabbit hole of America’s bogus election system.
I went looking, in other words, for Mike O’Donnell’s 170,000 supporters in Colorado.
I didn’t find them on Facebook — only 193 people were following his campaign page.
Mike O’Donnell’s 170,000 supporters were not hiding on Twitter either — just 560 of them were following his campaign at all. The day before the election, his last tweet managed to get 4 “likes.”
That’s the most interaction that his campaign Twitter account got — ever.
Mike O’Donnell sent out 1,306 tweets on his account and the vast majority of them got: 0 Likes — and 0 Retweets — and 0 Comments. There was no interaction on his Twitter account because nobody was voting for Mike O’Donnell.
How about fundraising? According to Colorado Public Radio News, Mike O’Donnell had managed to raise $4,700 for his campaign three weeks before the primary.
And yet on election day, Mike O’Donnell got nearly a third of the total vote and over 600,000 people voted in that race. More than 170,000 Colorado voters suddenly appear out of nowhere for Mike O’Donnell.