Tough to put that cat back in the bag.
EMBRACE THE SUCK!
This field is nothing compared to when California recalled Governor Gray Davis.
There were 150 bona fide candidates on that ballot. Schwarzenegger won. But the late Gary Coleman, star of Different Strokes, came in 8th.
If SNL was still alive they would have a skit where the various “gangs” of candidates would be shown colliding within the fairgrounds in a frenzied turf war.
I watched about 3 minutes of the first debate and got my fill of them.
When the field is winnowed down to the final 3 or 4, I might watch — if there isn’t a ballgame on FoxSportsGo.
Why are most of the people quoted in an article from Las Vegas, rather than Iowa?
Three Asspress idiots don’t like their candidates.
I read an interesting analysis of all this recently. So they DNC changed the rules after Hillary lost. They were ‘sensitive’ to the charge that they rigged the primary against Bernie so they wanted to make the field appear more open. (I don’t actually know if they reformed their super delegate field or the proportional distribution of state delegates).
Anyway they changed the rules and now they have rules along the lines of “if you have $1 million in the campaign” and “if you are at 2% in the polls” and “if you can raise money from 150,000 donors in 20 states” etc. Things like that.
So this encouraged not only a bunch of people to jump in - it also encouraged them to chase the most outlandish and radical ideas. If you favor $1000 a month in guaranteed income, you can get 2% in the polls. If you favor single-payer health care, you can find 150,000 people to contribute $1. If you support reparations, or if you can look like you hate Trump more than any of the others, whatever it takes to qualify to make the next debate.
The candidates are spending something like $70 for every $1 they raise from small donors. Because all they are doing right now is coming up with crazy ideas in the effort to find those people who think Elvis is still alive to send them $1, so they can qualify for the next round.
Of course some of these candidates are looking for something other than winning the office of POTUS - book deals, senate seats, governorships, cabinet posts, tv programs, speaking tours etc. These rules enable that.
But this is a mess of their own creation, in response to the previous mess of their own creation. It does exemplify though the insanity in the way Demmocrats tend to manage things in general - the House, the large cities, the schools, the social programs...
President Trump may want that and benefit from it, but he has absolutely nothing to do with the crowded Democratic field.
That is all their decision.
you really can’t blame ‘em: seems like there’s practically one candidate for every 100 fair-goers ..
Good.
I’m not even in Iowa but am sick to death of all these democrat assholes.
Wake me when they get it narrowed down to 7 or 8. Until then it’s just all political noise to be avoided.
A bunch of candidates aren’t going to make it and they know it. Why don’t they quit now? Oh, I forgot: campaign CASH!