What? Not even a moment of sorrow for your boy? You used to tell us, not long ago either, how Christie and Jindal were going to reinvigorate your party.
Well, I guess this thread’s opening question has been answered pretty decisively. We can go ahead and close this sucker!
NEXT!
Sort of. They can continue to raise money to pay off bills. That becomes much harder if they quit the campaign.
I said in this thread months ago that I ONCE would have been excited by a Jindal run, because he was once a very promising candidate. But he’s mismanaged Louisiana’s finances so badly that his successor is likely to be a Democrat.
He staked everything on a strong showing in Iowa, and for a little while, it looked like he might succeed. But now he’s bottomed out in Iowa, so there’s nothing left for him to do but pack it in and then hope desperately for a Cabinet position if a Republican somehow manages to squeak past Hillary.
How is Graham still in the race? He’s not exactly setting the country on fire either.
It has to be pretty hard *already *to raise money after you’ve dropped out. But maybe there are some donors who will take pity on you, or want to buy favor for your next run (which still leaves out Jindal).
It’s not like he will be standing on a corner in Baton Rouge shaking a cup and saying “Hey, buddy, spare some change?”. He can wait until the field is further windowed and then offer his endorsement, for a price. THAT’S how you raise money AFTER you have “suspended” your campaign. Someone will eventually need the people he appealed to.
The value of his endorsement might be as high as a dollar ninety eight, but probably not. More likely it would be a negative.
He’s out because he doesn’t *have *a real following for anyone else to want.
And in Louisiana, definitely negative. Quick, Bobby! There’s still time to endorse Vitter before Saturday’s runoff! 
He’s intellectually dishonest, which is the best I could say for him. The guy’s a Rhodes Scholar and he peddles creationism and fundamentalism like its a bodily function. Both his parents are smart and successful, so he can’t have gotten it from them. He would have made a nice Democrat if he had been able to drop the fucking pretense of idiocy to pander to the right wing lunatics. After this embarrassing performance and nothing to show for as governor, I hope he disappears from the public eye for a long long time.
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True, but if you close your campaign some methods become impossible (or at least illegal), but suspending the campaign avoids that.
Could you fill in some detail on the financial mismanagement please? I watched some of the last undercard debate and Jindal was going hard at Christie on the basis of their respective states’ finances. Now, I don’t expect him to have adopted a line of “vote for me even though my financial management sucks”, but it would be surprising for him to heavily base his position on something generally viewed to be a weakness.
If you end the campaign, you can’t take advantage of that break the Jindal campaign was waiting for.
Now that he’s dropped out, does anyone care?
Which candidates, if any, will benefit from his dropping out?
Several reasons:
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[li]Like anyone else who bets on a long-shot, the payoff is disproportionate if you happen to get lucky.[/li][li]You establish a connection to the guy if he turns up in some other influential position.[/li][li]You establish a connection to other people connected to the guy, who may themselves have influential positions.[/li][/ul]
The last of these is a big one and one that many people don’t appreciate. From what I’ve seen of political contributors, they’re mostly trying to get in with local political bigwigs and other mid-level hotshots who are associated with the candidate, rather than the candidate himself.
I’m going to go with nobody. He wasn’t tying up many donors and was polling at 0 for most of the recent polls. He was barely getting any air time outside the early show debates so he doesn’t free up media attention. Even if all of his support goes to only one candidate it won’t be noticeable aside from maybe in the LA primary itself.
In today’s political world it doesn’t matter whether among some segment of Louisianans you have a particular reputation. Mostly what matters is being able to say anything convincingly.
I realize that - that is why I was asking for further information. Jindal sounded convincing, but I do not know the actual situation in LA.
There are also people who irrationally support a presidential candidate who has virtually no chance of winning because he’s from their state or is of their own ethnicity, religion, etc., or because of his stand on an issue particularly near and dear to them.