Having participated in a number of campaigns, and watching Hunter not get any face time it is fairly easy to point to his campaign management as the failure.
There have been numerous opportunities for Hunter to set himself apart, but it hasn't happened.
Here are a just couple of examples.
Press Conference in Texas attended by ONE reporter who found out about the press conference on the internet, not from the campaign. Sure, he won a straw poll in Texas, but none of the other candidates were there. And again, did this win get exploited in the next debates? Nope. It was an anomaly, a bump in the road.
Let's look at the San Diego County fires. THIS IS HIS DISTRICT. There should be a news conference every other day on what is happening, the support coming, interfacing with the governor, and the appearance with the President on his visit.
Where was his management? These are PRIME opportunities to get your candidates face nationally broadcast, and nothing came of it.
Now some of the DuncanDelusionists© will say..."He was busy helping."......."It's about helping, not politicing." My response? It's politics, and when you are running for President of the United States, it's about image, and that is a NATIONAL requirement to win as POTUS.
Duncan may be the 'perfect' candidate, but you couldn't tell from his campaign management.
I saw a response from some one here about the fact that that Duncan wouldn’t “exploit” the situation with the fires. Hell it’s not exploitation to be there, be involved and at the same time make it work to your advantage. That’s what successful politicians learn early on, the art of doing both, doing the job and doing the promotion. It’s what gets you bumped up stairs.
Everyone loves the purist, the guy who is above the fray, but outside of their adherents, they don’t pay attention to him long.