2012's Worst Candidate of the Day

Meet Mark Clayton, the Democrats' candidate for U.S. Senate in Tennessee. But get this: Because of Clayton's support for Public Advocate of the United States -- an organization that was branded a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its anti-gay rhetoric -- "the Tennessee Democratic Party disavows his candidacy [and] will not do anything to promote or support him in any way":

Many Democrats in Tennessee knew nothing about any of the candidates in the race, so they voted for the person at the top of the ticket.

Without financial backing, Clayton has "no campaign headquarters, a fundraising drive stuck at $278 and one yard sign. Not one type of yard sign. One sign." How does he expect to beat incumbent Republican Sen. Bob Corker? "Jesus did not have a campaign staff," Clayton says. "And he had the most successful campaign in human history."