Sometimes you can’t even make this stuff up.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes was in one Iowa precinct where Rick Santorum got zero votes despite having a precinct captain on site:

Via The Hill

“You didn’t vote for him?” MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes asked the man, showing a tally of votes with an “X” by Santorum’s name.
“As I was writing down [his name], my pen ran out of ink,” the man responded. “I was like, I can’t just ask somebody for a new pen while I’m doing this.”

“Buddy, you’re the Santorum dude,” Hayes responded in disbelief.

“I know, I know,” the Santorum supporter replied. “Failure to launch, failure to launch.”

I can’t say I blame the guy. The guy who he loaned his pen to had the chance of casting a useful vote.

I’m sort for surprised that Santorum hasn’t packed it in. He polled a little more than half of what Huckabee polled. He is broke. No one cares about him. He really needs to get on with a life that doesn’t involve electoral politics.