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brooklynite

(93,851 posts)
Tue May 14, 2019, 10:17 AM May 2019

Unfazed by sinking poll numbers, Beto O'Rourke keeps plugging away on presidential bid

Dallas Morning News

SALEM, N.H.--Beto O’Rourke’s best days as a presidential candidate are already behind him. That could change, maybe soon. Ups and downs are typical in a campaign.

But for the El Paso Democrat who captured the imagination of party activists across the land last fall, when he came within a nicely coiffed hair of ousting Sen. Ted Cruz, it's been only down since he jumped onto his first coffee shop countertop in Iowa.

Seven weeks later, he’s sunk to 3% support, far below his peak, when memories of his near miss against Cruz were fresh. He’s held more town halls and taken more questions from voters than any rival, including those who’ve been stumping a year longer, and his poll numbers sink and sink.

It’s enough to make a candidate wonder if maybe less exposure might be the answer. Fewer events, maybe a change of tactics.
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Unfazed by sinking poll numbers, Beto O'Rourke keeps plugging away on presidential bid (Original Post) brooklynite May 2019 OP
This early, candidates back in the pack of primary candidates MineralMan May 2019 #1
I wish he would have waited for 2028. ecstatic May 2019 #2
 

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
1. This early, candidates back in the pack of primary candidates
Tue May 14, 2019, 10:25 AM
May 2019

rise and fall in the polls pretty easily. It's hard to move up, but very easy to move down.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

ecstatic

(32,566 posts)
2. I wish he would have waited for 2028.
Tue May 14, 2019, 04:28 PM
May 2019

He's not ready yet, IMO.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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