Well this is a new excuse

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Now while there was a candidate who actually did lose to a dead man (opponent died and it was too late to take his name off the ballot), this is a whole new level of stupid.  The is Onion material.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/oklahoma-republican-claims-his-opponent-is-dead-was-replaced-by-body-double/
Timothy Ray Murray lost the Republican primary for Oklahoma’s 3rd Congressional District by a huge margin on Tuesday, but he’s not giving up because, well, he believes his opponent has been dead for the past three years: