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WAPO - McGlowan should have spent less time on Fox and more time campaigning It was an even darker night for someone who, unlike Peterson, already had something of a national following. In February, Fox News pundit Angela McGlowan, a black woman who often comments on how the Democratic Party undermines black Americans, announced her candidacy for Mississippi's 1st District at the National Tea Party Convention. She immediately became much-cited evidence of how the tea party was challenging the GOP and how black Republicans were finding their footing. ... But there was little evidence of real grass-roots support for McGlowan. She raised only $87,093, which included $12,372 from her own pocket, and last night she scored only 15 percent of the vote in her primary. That's not the kind of result that increases a pundit's credibility -- that's a result that sends us looking at her campaign schedule and realizing how much time she spent on Fox News versus how much time she spent on the trail. And this endorsement could have come sooner. Washington Post 6/2/10