The Washington Post newspaper has named Bruce Braley as the worst candidate in the USA during the last election cycle, a tough blow for a man who was considered a front runner for the U.S. Senate early on.View videoThe honor was announced in an article posted on the paper's website on Tuesday.Chris Cillizza said in a blog on the Post's website that Braley "through sheer force of personality, not only lost a very winnable open seat race but lost it badly. Some races are a failure of the campaign. This was a failure of the candidate."The article walks through a list of problems for the campaign including the infamous video of Braley talking about the possibility of Iowans electing a farmer who never went to law school.Of the video, the Post said, "In the space of two sentences, Braley managed to: (1) insult popular Sen. Chuck Grassley (2) insult farmers and (3) sound as super-arrogant as humanly possible."The blog points out that people simply liked Joni Ernst and they didn't like Bruce Braley, something KCCI political analyst Dennis Goldford pointed out even before the Washington Post Column.“It wasn't the issues, it was likability. And comfort. And the Braley campaign simply misread the situation, thinking it was a purely issues campaign and never established that first premise which was to make him someone who people like,” Goldford said.In a statement, Chairman Scott Brennan told KCCI that, “while he may have come up short last week, history will prove that the ideals he fought for and embodied will win in the end."Read the blog on the Washington Post blog The Fix.What do you think of the article? Was Braley the worst candidate in the USA? Add your comment in the box below or on the KCCI Facebook page.

The Washington Post newspaper has named Bruce Braley as the worst candidate in the USA during the last election cycle, a tough blow for a man who was considered a front runner for the U.S. Senate early on.

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The honor was announced in an article posted on the paper's website on Tuesday.

Chris Cillizza said in a blog on the Post's website that Braley "through sheer force of personality, not only lost a very winnable open seat race but lost it badly. Some races are a failure of the campaign. This was a failure of the candidate."

The article walks through a list of problems for the campaign including the infamous video of Braley talking about the possibility of Iowans electing a farmer who never went to law school.

Of the video, the Post said, "In the space of two sentences, Braley managed to: (1) insult popular Sen. Chuck Grassley (2) insult farmers and (3) sound as super-arrogant as humanly possible."

The blog points out that people simply liked Joni Ernst and they didn't like Bruce Braley, something KCCI political analyst Dennis Goldford pointed out even before the Washington Post Column.

“It wasn't the issues, it was likability. And comfort. And the Braley campaign simply misread the situation, thinking it was a purely issues campaign and never established that first premise which was to make him someone who people like,” Goldford said.

In a statement, Chairman Scott Brennan told KCCI that, “while he may have come up short last week, history will prove that the ideals he fought for and embodied will win in the end."

Read the blog on the Washington Post blog The Fix.

What do you think of the article? Was Braley the worst candidate in the USA? Add your comment in the box below or on the KCCI Facebook page.