I think that the negativity of the Cruz campaign on FR is turning people off.
I wish they’d work harder hyping their candidate’s positives rather than tearing people down personally. It’s fine to defend your candidate. Necessary, actually. But with facts - not just feeling.
Honestly, I see relatively little *positive* about Cruz. Lots of anger. They aren’t having fun with this election and it shows.
A tone of hostility doesn’t win over voters.
The negativity amongst the more rabid wing of Cruz supporters is most definitely a major turn-off to lots of regulars. I went quiet for some weeks, when it first got really bad here. It was such a huge change of atmosphere, I barely felt comfortable reading the threads, let alone, posting my thoughts.
Many of us have recently begun remarking that it will be such a relief to get past the first few primary states, just so this place can settle back into some semblance of sanity.
With Ted’s huge loss in South Carolina, and his near certain impending loss in Nevada, maybe things will finally mellow out. At least a bit.