Lonegan: I Lost Because Of The Shutdown

"There is no doubt in my mind or in the minds of any of my campaign staff that the shutdown cost me the election. If I had known it was going to happen and that it was going to be handled so badly in Washington, I wouldn't have run for the Senate. Republicans had a chance to win a U.S. Senate seat and in the process send a powerful message to Obama and instead they shut down government with no message and no game plan. I was probably the single biggest casualty of their mistake." - 2013 Rand Paul Toupee Olympics bronze medalist Steve Lonegan, speaking to the Newark Star-Ledger.