Because A Family Member is the Best Judge of Electability

Mike Turner on how the caucus came to their full throated support of Ty Cobb #2:

The day Curt [Cobb] told me was he going to step down was the last day of session. ... When he told me he was stepping down, I asked him who he was going to get to take his place, and he said, 'I've got a man who's more popular than I am.' And I said, 'Who?' And he said, 'My brother.' I said, 'Sounds good to me.' And we kind of went from there.

Yeah, hindsight is 20/20, but this should've been (and was) seen by many people from a mile away. Nobody was impressed with Ty Cobb, and yeah, you could go down Main Street Fayetteville and find a lot of people who knew him as the UPS delivery guy, but the vast majority of voters probably didn't get enough packages from the big brown van to sell them on the notion that Curt's brother should represent them in the legislature.