# Farewell Cory Booker **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 13, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356 "2020-01-13T16:11:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/21 "2020-01-13T18:26:14Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > I am sad about this as I think he was a very good presence on the debate stage. I do think what doomed both the Harris and Booker campaigns is that they anticipated African-American support, but did not think that Biden would suck ALL that air out of the room (it’s still very surprising to me). Well I think that African Americans realized that getting rid of Trump was the number one priority, and may have been concerned that Booker and Williams were not the rock stars that Obama was, and so may fall victim to racism in the general election, so thought that Biden was probably the safest bet. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/22 "2020-01-13T18:26:54Z")
He should have had a real chance of winning the nomination. Any senator or governor should, I think, be taken seriously as running for President. Yes, I know it’s a crowded field, but the likes of Yang and Buttigieg should have been crowded out long before Booker or Inslee. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/23 "2020-01-13T18:31:08Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > He should have had a real chance of winning the nomination. Any senator or governor should, I think, be taken seriously as running for President. Yes, I know it’s a crowded field, but the likes of Yang and Buttigieg should have been crowded out long before Booker or Inslee. I agree. Booker seems to me to be far more serious than either Yang or Buttigieg. For that matter, so does Harris. We’ve still got some guys who don’t belong- Yang, Buttigieg, Bloomberg, Steyer. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/24 "2020-01-13T18:34:54Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > They’re not saying “Booooo,” they’re saying…wait, yep, they’re saying “Boooo.” > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Don’t make me call security. 😃 😃 > [@BobLibDem](#): > > We’ve still got some guys who don’t belong- Yang, Buttigieg, Bloomberg, Steyer. And of course the ‘forgotten but not gone’ trio: Michael Bennet, John Delaney, and Deval Patrick. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/25 "2020-01-13T18:44:32Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > He should have had a real chance of winning the nomination. Any senator or governor should, I think, be taken seriously as running for President. Yes, I know it’s a crowded field, but the likes of Yang and Buttigieg should have been crowded out long before Booker or Inslee. Yes. This is a very strange year. In past primaries, someone like Inslee would be a top candidate. The lack of Governors running is a bit striking. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/26 "2020-01-13T18:49:34Z")
He was definitely crowded out in a large field. I also think focusing on poverty issues wasn’t a great strategy. I know I’m painting with a wide brush, but I don’t think those voters are watching 20 person debates in the middle of summer on cable news channels. He was doomed with the ‘true progressives’ who would never accept him. Blah Blah Wall Street blah Big Pharma. Pete probably took his lane by running a better campaign. And no one saw Biden absolutely nailing down and keeping black support all through 2019. I like Booker and he’d be a great VP and should be a main contender in 2024 if the worst happens. Oh, and FYI his book is excellent and I doubt it was all ghostwritten. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/27 "2020-01-13T19:47:20Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Blah Blah Wall Street blah Big Pharma. No wonder you’re a Buttigieg fan. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/28 "2020-01-13T19:54:20Z")
I liked Booker and I wish he did better. Along with Klobuchar, Warren, and Sanders, he’s one of the 4 candidates that I’d be very happy with as the nominee (all for very different reasons). So now I’m down to 3 that I’d be happy with. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/29 "2020-01-13T20:42:45Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > No wonder you’re a Buttigieg fan. I’m a Buttigieg supporter because he’s the best candidate in this race. Booker was my second choice after Harris dropped out. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/30 "2020-01-13T20:51:36Z")
That someone with such a pro-Wall Street, pro-Big Pharma attitude believes that Buttigieg is the best Democratic candidate is hardly a surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/31 "2020-01-14T14:25:35Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I’d be okay with that. And Harris as Attorney General. She can’t sleep her way into that job. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/32 "2020-01-14T16:20:36Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > She can’t sleep her way into that job. That’s exactly enough of that. Anything more like that and it’ll be a warning. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/33 "2020-01-14T19:32:21Z")
I think Booker had no particular glaring weakness except that, in a field of dozens of contenders, there’s no way you’re going to stand out unless you’re some politician _ **truly special** _ or already highly popular to begin with. And he wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/34 "2020-01-14T19:37:16Z")
> [@EasyPhil](#): > > Booker like Harris had no real chance of winning the nomination and to me they weren’t that serious about running. If you think Kamala Harris wasn’t serious, you just weren’t paying attention. Harris was REALLY serious, and it’s easy to forget she was a frontrunner until her campaign derailed. It was mismanaged (in part because she trusted her sister too much) but an error is not the same as not being serious. I don’t think Kamala Harris has ever been unserious about anything. She looks like she takes going to the movies seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/35 "2020-01-14T21:15:55Z")
I think all of them are being hurt by their pledge to restrict which donations they’ll accept. At this point, with two billionaires in the race, there’s zero reason to continue it. They need money to survive. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/36 "2020-01-14T21:52:55Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > If you think Kamala Harris wasn’t serious, you just weren’t paying attention. Harris was REALLY serious, and it’s easy to forget she was a frontrunner until her campaign derailed. It was mismanaged (in part because she trusted her sister too much) but an error is not the same as not being serious. > > I don’t think Kamala Harris has ever been unserious about anything. She looks like she takes going to the movies seriously. Harris was dead serious about winning and came into 2019 on the winds of a wonderful performance and news coverage from the Kavanaugh hearings. I think she made a serious blunder by putting too much money and time into SC. I can’t judge an entire state by my ten days there but it seems that SC just isn’t a state that’s chomping at the bit for Democratic Party politics and trying to reach those voters in the summer of 2019 was the same as trying to sell them Christmas trees on the 4th of July. ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/37 "2020-01-15T06:42:56Z")
Of all the candidates I think Booker had the best shot at uniting the different parts of the Democratic party so it’s a bit disappointing that he had to drop out so early. It’s difficult to identify the reasons for his failure since for the most part he ran a solid campaign. Possibly he edged too far to the left and focused too much on race but it’s hard to see those as decisive blunders. I think his failure just shows that political success in a tough primary is often a matter of chance; how the quirks of your personality mesh with a fleeting public mood. ---
**Author:** ![fedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/38 "2020-01-21T16:25:31Z")
one good thing for Booker is that he goes home to Rosario Dawson:) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/39 "2020-01-31T15:48:38Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > And of course the ‘forgotten but not gone’ trio: Michael Bennet, John Delaney, and Deval Patrick. OK, now John Delaney’s both forgotten [and](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-delaney-drops-out-democratic-primary-race-after-anemic-poll-numbers) gone. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/40 "2020-01-31T19:08:34Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > OK, now John Delaney’s both forgotten [and](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-delaney-drops-out-democratic-primary-race-after-anemic-poll-numbers) gone. 😃 Now that monthly reporting is a thing. I think we will see the rest of the fringe drop. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356.md?page=3)