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thishereboi -> RE: Clowncar gets fuller...... (7/18/2015 8:57:29 AM)
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy
New Hampshire Voters Bemoan Size of G.O.P. Field
• “This race feels more like a spectator sport than an election. Having all these candidates is a real problem, because it’ll be hard to hear each of them. I’m interested in Jeb Bush, but it’s not easy to pay attention to just one when there are so many.”
• The likely field of 16 Republican candidates is stirring frustration, particularly among voters who say they feel more overwhelmed, even ambivalent, than ever before about their long-cherished responsibilities in holding the nation’s first primary.
• Some voters said they were already dreading the weeks of political fliers stuffed in their mailboxes, of campaign volunteers at their doors during the day and of television ads and automated phone calls all through the night.
• “Maybe I’ll just vote for the one who leaves me alone the most,” said Tim Sullivan, a Republican from Gilford. He compared his party’s pack of candidates to “a clown car where they never stop coming out.”
• “I can’t keep track of all of them. It’s ridiculous,”
• “It feels like a lot of Republicans are running for the recognition or to get a TV gig or another job, not because they actually believe they could win the presidency,”
• “I like paying attention, but they have to get their act together, really,”
• “I don’t think Iowa’s going to solve anything "
• “Every day there are two more Republicans jumping into the race, but hopefully the debates will help us sort all of this out,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/us/size-of-gop-field-hinders-new-hampshires-role-as-national-screener.html?_r=0
As everyone knows, Hillary Clinton is now officially running for the presidency of the United States.
I wish her the best of success, and I plan not only to vote for her but to contribute (modestly) to her campaign and make phone calls for her in the fall of 2016. But her opening salvo gives me pause.
Measured against all the campaign-kickoff speeches that have been made in the past 50 years or so, hers surely tops the list for brevity and casualness. In a video just over two minutes long, a montage of various men, women and children who are all eager to start something new (such as having a baby or tackling a new job) is followed by 30 seconds of the candidate herself, who tells us that she is running for president to fight for "everyday Americans" who need "a champion" in "tough economic times," when "the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top."
Thus she throws a populist bone to the Warrenite Dems on the left. But since her campaign is already seeking contributions from everyday Americans like me, I can't understand why our champion will need $2.5 billion of our money to gain the White House.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-heffernan/why-does-hillary-need-25-_b_7056586.html
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