This is not 1979, this is over 30 years later.
OK, I’ll bite. Why does a candidate have to announce earlier in an era when the message can be disseminated easier, people pay attention much later, and your fund raising organization has proven itself capable of bringing in enough individual contributions to more than make up for the big players who buy their candidates early?
Thanks for the math lesson. Now I have to figure out why that is important to know. Let me see if I can remember what I was doing at this point in 1979...my favorite album was "Candy-O" by the Cars, I was driving around in my first car, a 1968 Chrysler Newport, I was starting my senior year in high school and I had a job doing dishes at a restaurant at Logan Airport. Jimmy Carter was still president and looked like he was cruising to re-election because nobody seemed to be challenging him yet - the hostages still had yet to be taken in Iran.
Yes it is! And it’s much easier to get the message out via the web and organize via the web. It’s way easier to communicate with most everyone to get information simultaneously with the cell phone system. We no longer have to rely on the lying old media. She probably could actually wait beyond what Reagan did because of that. That’s what you meant, right?