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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on September 18, 2019, 01:15:04 pm
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Kamala Harris’ Presidential Campaign Barely Has a Pulse . . . in California!
By Jim Geraghty
September 17, 2019 3:33 PM
Since the early days of this presidential primary cycle, there’s been a quiet but intriguing narrative that Kamala Harris was a much stronger candidate than her national polling might suggest. The gist is that while most years, California is just an ATM for Democratic presidential candidates, this cycle the Golden State will vote on Super Tuesday, March 3. The whole process is so much earlier than usual that absentee and early primary ballots will be mailed out the day of the Iowa caucuses.
California has 495 delegates to the Democratic convention, and they are awarded proportionally — almost a tenth of the total 4535 hard delegates. The pro-Harris theory is that while everybody else is scrambling over a share of Iowa’s 49 delegates or New Hampshire’s 33 delegates, Harris can set herself up to win big in her home state and walk away with, say, 250 or so delegates just out of California, setting herself up to be the frontrunner after Super Tuesday.
It’s an intriguing theory, but history is full of candidates who thought they could make their big move after Iowa and New Hampshire and found themselves sputtering on fumes by the time their preferred primary rolled around. In Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 campaign, Florida was supposed to be the firewall, but winning tends to beget more winning, and losing tends to beget more losing. It’s really difficult to become the nominee if you don’t win Iowa or New Hampshire. The only Democrat who’s done it is Bill Clinton in 1992, and that was an oddity because Senator Tom Harkin was a home-state candidate in Iowa (so most observers discounted it), and Clinton was the “comeback kid†who finished second in New Hampshire that year. (Some might also argue that Hillary Clinton’s win in Iowa last cycle was so close it shouldn’t even count.)
more
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-presidential-campaign-struggling-california-polls/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-presidential-campaign-struggling-california-polls/)
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Maybe she needs to return to the ways she got to her current job, by positioning herself with powerful men.
Literally.
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Maybe she needs to return to the ways she got to her current job, by positioning herself with powerful men.
Literally.
She hardly has a pulse. Well, they say some people like it that way.
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Harris should thank her lucky stars she has the position of senator. She has an annoying voice, and is a crackpot to boot, but then again CA is full of such folks!
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This makes me want to do a happy dance.
I thought she'd be much more formidable than she's turned out to be.
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I'm ready for her raging alcoholic PMS show to go away too.
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This makes me want to do a happy dance.
I thought she'd be much more formidable than she's turned out to be.
Unfortunately, it seems more than likely Wigwam Warren will be the DEM nominee. I think she's going to give Trump problems and we could very well see her seated in the oval office. She's drawing considerable crowds right now. He needs to start refraining from things like calling her "Wigwam Warren"; comments like that are going to hurt him. He needs to start practicing avoiding the name calling and strictly go after her on the issues. IF he can stick to his accomplishments and keep proving what he has done has made this country better, then he has a real chance of winning.
OH ... and his re-election also depends on what he does on the 2A.
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For all her Proggie-sounding blah, Harris has some history as state AG and DA of SF that should have ANY American disturbed. And I think some Dems in CA are letting folks in other states and the MSM know this.
At best, Kammy is an Assistant DA who has risen far above her intellectual pay-grade. At worst - and equally accurate, IMO - Kammy should not be trusted to be a deputy assistant dogcatcher, because she abuse her authority.
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why does a forum named GOP even bother about her?
speaking of pulses.
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why does a forum named GOP even bother about her?
speaking of pulses.
It's akin to
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMxJtMoTnx8#)
Watching trainwrecks.