Posted on 10/29/2019 5:25:46 AM PDT by simpson96
DES MOINES — Matthew Hunt’s pledge to support a presidential candidate started with a sign.
Not a mystic apparition from above, but an actual billboard on Eisenhower Avenue in Mason City, where he saw a face and a name in bright red letters: “Tulsi.”
“Let’s not kid around: I thought she was attractive, so I looked her up on Facebook,” said Hunt, a 53-year-old service technician. That led him to learn about Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s antiwar stance, her military experience and, more recently, her public spat with 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. When he heard Gabbard (D-Hawaii) talk about the importance of living “Aloha” at a recent campaign event, he decided to throw his support to a woman on the fringes of Democratic politics.
“Tulsi comes out with her message of peace, sitting around and talking to people like adults and sitting at the table with everyone,” Hunt said. “I have a 17-year-old son. He’s never seen a year of peace.”
While the top tier of presidential candidates is building robust operations with field offices and strategists in Iowa to boost poll numbers and build momentum, Gabbard’s campaign is banking on something a little different: prolifically posting signs.
In major parts of the state, Gabbard’s image is more visible than any other Democratic candidate’s. There are billboards along highways in Dubuque and Davenport. They appear near a Walmart in Mason City and over a Pueblo Viejo restaurant in Des Moines.
There are yard signs placed on homes with peeling paint, overflowing trash and windows covered in cardboard. There are signs in yards near the state fairgrounds, including one surrounded by a Halloween-ready graveyard of cardboard tombstones and cobwebs.
Campaign officials say they hope that the billboards will
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The little commie is easy to look at.
Hey WaPo, how many “Rest in peace, austere religious scholar” signs did your first grade level “reporters” see?
Tulsi scares me. Of the announced candidates, she’s the one I think has the best chance to beat Trump
I saw them in South Carolina, too. “A Soldier’s Heart” was the caption. I think it’s a nice approach, fwiw.
They all miss the parts where she supports reparations, open borders and no fossil fuels. And that is only the beginning...
So, the guy’s little head is telling him what to do.
Once she popped up on the Clinton radar her slim chance went to nil.
She’ll get the young, dumb, full of *** vote for her looks, but she’s too level headed for the fringe idiots and too far left for the old timers.
Waste of money..........
With the corrupt Biden fading, What’s left of semi rational Democratic primary voters don’t have many choices. Hillary’s bizarre attack and Tulsi’s devastating response was the definitive moment. No decent American should ever vote for Tulsi but the next few months should be amusing. The Left ought to be going crazy if they can’t control the Democratic Party to their liking.
If these signs only show up in battleground states, the left is trying to split the GOP.
ie Ross Perot.
Frankly I don’t think it will work.
CNN spent two years promoting Ross Perot and then dumped him as soon as Clinton was elected.
LOL!
i wonder if she has any signs in oklahoma... tulsi oklahoma to be pacific.
Plus she’s left of left.
ross was a d..k but he wasn’t left of left
I live in NE iowa. I have seen one (1) gabbard sign in front of a house in my town. one.
nothing on the freeways around here...no billboards, etc.
The den party will bury her, like they did Bernie. She hasn’t been around long enough for them to completely own her.
I drove through Iowa in June. Other than Tulsi billboards, you’d have never known it was campaign season.
The bad policy doesn’t stop there, either. See my previous.
The wayward woman leads many men down into destruction.
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