Bobby Jindal Announces for President. Does anyone care?

[Onomatopoeia]

In the now over-crowded field of Republican candidates, where in the pack is Jindal? What segment of the electorate does he appeal to? Seems to me Jindal’s positions are already covered by Huckabee.

@HuffPo

Bobby Jindal To Fullfill Son’s Dream Of Returning To Iowa, Also Is Running For President

[Jonathan_Chance]

Fixed thread title at request of the OP.

[ElvisL1ves]

So far, the answer would seem to be No.

[Procrustus]

Was he the “thirsty guy” or the “man-child”?

[ElvisL1ves]

No, the religious nut who’s not only colored, but the good kind of colored.

[Randolph]

White-ish?

[Sam_Lowry]

@Onomatopoeia

In the now over-crowded field of Republican candidates, where in the pack is Jindal? What segment of the electorate does he appeal to? Seems to me Jindal’s positions are already covered by Huckabee.

He doesn’t appeal to people in his own state:

According the poll, Jindal’s job approval rating is at 31 percent and Pinsonat says that is close to Blanco after her handling of Hurricane Katrina and Edwards dealing with criminal matters.

“Since polling has been done, that’s the three lowest numbers we’ve ever seen for a governor,” Pinsonat said. “But they [Edwards & Blanco] had catastrophic events like an indictment or the storm. Jindal’s down here free-falling and it’s really about the perception of the kind of job he’s doing as governor. There’s no catastrophic event that’s affecting him.”

[Donald_Rump]

Daniel Larison pretty much hits the nail on the head:

Like Christie, Jindal is extremely unpopular in his own state. Oddly enough, this is the result of implementing an agenda shaped by his ambitions to be a presidential candidate. He’s hardly the only governor to have made poor and irresponsible fiscal decisions, but Jindal has done so out of the belief that it would propel him to higher office. As it turns out, it will propel him nowhere. Jindal also has the unusual profile of a former policy wonk who has chosen to adopt a pseudo-populist persona over the last several years. This puts him in the odd position of playing at being a demagogue when his main qualification was supposed to be his ability to understand and think through difficult policy problems.

Jindal’s candidacy might make sense if he were particularly charismatic, had particularly novel ideas, or had been a particularly effective governor, none of which apply. It’s difficult to see why Jindal would be anyone’s first or second pick in an already crowded field.

[astorian]

I would have cared once. Jindal is smart and once showed promise of being a reformer. But he’s mismanaged Louisiana’s finances badly, and seems to have abandoned the interesting initiatives that once gave me some hope for him.

[Amateur_Barbarian]

He just wants to get a Piyush of the American Dream.

I think we’ve seriously reached the point where we need to list the Republicans not running this cycle.

[Chimera]

No1curr

[Stringbean]

I think Bobby Jindal is so smart he thinks he needs to act like a pandering religious nutjob to win.

Unfortunately for him, that position already has several suitors.

[River_Hippie]

Didn’t he give the Repub response to the State of the Union where he mocked volcano research which was closely followed by the volcano eruption in Iceland that shut down air traffic in Europe for weeks? Would have been nice to have some warning on that.

[Bijou_Drains]

Linda Blair is a fan

[River_Hippie]

Apparently the eruption I was thinking of was before Jindal’s response.

[Amateur_Barbarian]

@Bijou_Drains

Linda Blair is a fan

And on the Revised Bono-Jolie scale, we should care because?

[chizzuk]

@Sam_Lowry

He doesn’t appeal to people in his own state:

To put this in more context, President Obama’s approval rating in Louisiana is 42% (cite). Obama lost Louisiana in a landslide in 2012. And yet he is more popular there than Jindal. I really don’t know why Bobby is even bothering.

[Onomatopoeia]

@Bijou_Drains

Linda Blair is a fan

Heh. Good one.

[Onomatopoeia]

@chizzuk

To put this in more context, President Obama’s approval rating in Louisiana is 42% (cite). Obama lost Louisiana in a landslide in 2012. And yet he is more popular there than Jindal. I really don’t know why Bobby is even bothering.

I don’t either. I think even Perry has a better shot at the presidency than Jindal, and Perry has no shot at all.

[Dewey_Finn]

Anyone going to challenge his legitimacy on birther grounds? Sure, he was born in the US, but he wasn’t conceived here. (His parents emigrated about six months before he was born, so unless he was really premature, the conception happened overseas.)