Fox News Undercard Republican Debate: Live Coverage

I don’t want to be snarky, but sometimes I wonder why some people think it’s a good idea to run for president. With the exception of Huckabee, all the candidates on this stage were blown out in their last run for statewide office. Santorum lost his 2006 race for Senate in Pennsylvania by 17 percentage points. Gilmore lost his 2008 race for Senate in Virginia by 31 percentage points. Fiorina lost her 2010 race for Senate in California by 10 percentage points.

A reminder: Governors don’t have much control over their states’ economic records.

Even though Gilmore isn’t getting as many questions as the other candidates, he is drawing lots of search interest on Google, along with Fiorina, dwarfing the other, more familiar candidates on stage with them. Meanwhile, the other candidates who have agreed to take the stage for the main debate later tonight are all being outsearched, as usual, by Donald Trump by an enormous margin.