But JWT, the ad agency that created the campaign, found other reasons for the decline.
The 47-year-old architect of the Labour campaign found himself praised for his losing contribution by the youngest British MP since 1667.
Yet that figure of reported alleged incidents is a fraction of the total number of hate messages circulating on social media, which research for the campaign found to be 134,000 relating to football or players, just for the period of August to March last season.
When Nicolay, who had been made Lincoln's private secretary for the campaign, found he needed help with the huge amounts of correspondence, Hay was brought on board, and worked full-time for Lincoln for six months.
A survey of 2,300 adults for the numeracy campaign found that over a third thought their level of maths had held them back.
But a recent poll conducted for the Clements campaign found him gaining steam against Upton, with the incumbent polling at 47percentt and Clements at 43percentt.
Two independent polls from Wiese Research Associates and Pharos Research Group, and an internal poll for Kerrey's campaign, found him within five points of Fischer.
by just two points, while an internal poll conducted for McCaskill's campaign found her with a commanding 13-point lead.
On Monday, an internal poll taken for Colbert Busch's campaign found the Democrat holding a slight edge over Sanford, 47 percent to 44percentt.
I have a lot of angry comments that I'm calling him a Republican when that's not his affiliation, and the only campaign contributions I found for him are to Libertarian candidates.
