Posted on 10/04/2015 9:52:43 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Without votes or caucuses, candidates are winnowed out
A political revolution is taking place in America. The process of selecting party presidential candidates has been transformed in the last two or three election cycles. Now we have the early debates designed to drive poll numbers and tell us who’s “ahead” and who’s “behind,” who’s “gaining” and who’s “dropping.” Yet not a single vote has been taken, not a single voter has pulled a lever in a voting booth or gone to a single caucus.
And yet candidates are being winnowed out. Take, for example, Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Is he out because he couldn’t get any voters to vote for him? No, few voters have even bothered to focus on the race thus far with any intensity, much less actually vote. It’s because his debate performances proved lackluster, which sent his poll numbers down, which led to a sharp decline in his ability to raise money. He lost in a contest that was extra-electoral.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Analysis of changes is the pre-election process of choosing candidates with Scott Walker as the focus.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
There's a half dozen more that should be sent packing.
Scott Walker, who is a young man, CAN have a good future in national electoral politics. But he needs to have a positive attitude and discard the negative attitude and bitterness that he has been displaying recently. IMHO, of course.
I don’t think he was really lackluster in the debates. He just came off as if he didn’t think he needed to answer questions. I’d say he was kind of taciturn.
This is much better than when a few people, behind closed doors, decided on who was going to run.
That’s still a problem at the state level, as I see that happening in Virginia all the time.
If the talking heads, MSM, GOPee’s and RINOs would keep out of the way and report, instead of having to hear their dark side of everyone running, and the debates were asked in a way of questioning that WE the VOTERS want to hear the answers to, maybe we might have a ‘real’ election...but no...
So WE the Legal American Voters have decided to take all this away from them, we are going to decide who WE want, we do research on the different candidates, we can read and study about a candidate....you don't like what that person has stood for in the past, you don't like their voting records, you go on to the next one....but we are though with listening to blathering idiots....
Those weren’t real “debates”. The news media didn’t ask him any questions. In both “debates” he was given the least amount of air time of any of the candidates, and the questions they did ask were silly. Such as his beliefs in God, etc. That, coupled with his natural good manners, prevented him from jumping in and talking over the other candidates. That hurt him big time, particularly when he had to share the podium with a blowhard like The Donald.
The polls are driven by social media.
Social media has taken the “water-cooler discusions” of the past into a much wider arena, and likes or dislikes are discussed with a much wider audience than ever before.
A wider audience now much less influenced by several nationally-syndicated pundits working through was is commonly called the “main-stream media”, the broadcast networks the newspapers, the opinion journals, than was once the case. Many other “pirate” outlets, through cable TV and the back door approach through the Internet have fragmented that former monolith so badly it cannot ever again assume the stature it once had.
Citizens United is working the way it was intended. Money gets steered by unexpected forces working in unpredictable ways.
“So who’s running the show?”
So far, it is Trump and he is doing it with his stances on issues. These people just can’t get it. They either refuse to get it, or their denial is a strategy of some sort.
The only people who are keeping track now are people who care about what is happening in the US.
If we winnow down the field to the few people who are reasonable candidates, then the apathetic low-information idiots that show up to vote wont be able to choose a complete loser candidate.
When they had the Kennedy/Nixon debate, 1. how many moderators, 2. did the camera ever show the moderator, was it a “true” debate?
The citizens want a candidate who will stop the illegal alien inundation.
Walker had the opportunity to be that candidate.
He chose not to be that candidate.
Are “the party bosses” mentioned in article people like Rove? Are they people like head of GOP? Or are they the big time donors.
They were debates. Debating how Megyn Kelly would do on her knees during a reality TV show, and The Donald saying, “You’re fired!”
The primaries haven’t even begun, and the author pretends that they don’t exist? LOL
No, genius, a few candidates are ending their run. They use polls, including their own polls, to see the writing on the wall, and self-select. Do you wish to make it illegal or against the rules for candidates to drop out of a 17-person field until after YOUR state gets to vote in a primary and boot them out? SMH
Let’s not overlook that the Founding States had never intended for either the POTUS or federal senators to be elected by ordinary citizens.
After all, since one of the very few powers that the states have actually delegated to the feds to regulate INTRAstate domestic policy is to make the rules for the US Mail Service (1.8.7), most other federal domestic programs unconstitutional, the key question is how may political parties does it take run the US Mail Service? I say none.
I sometimes think that the country deserves to be pirated by socialists for not listening to the Founders. In fact, Jesus said that when a blind man leads a blind man they both fall into the pit.
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