Jon Huntsman seems to be an okay guy from his television appearances and doesn’t come across as slimy or ignorant unlike the other candidates in the primaries.
Acting!
Genius!
Great position to be in; you can maybe win the Presidency or the nomination, but not both.
That’s not quite accurate. Economic sabotage sufficient to cause recession can beat an incumbent, even if the Republicans nominated Rick Santorum. Blocking a growth and infrastructure package, as the Republicans did in the fall of 2011, will deliver victory if you nominate an open neuro-typical against an incumbent or a even a crazy against a non-incumbent. So the GOP is hardly on the ropes yet. The only question is whether the donor class will catch on to this game.
Source: the Fair model, which gives 2.9% in the two party vote to incumbency and gave Obama a ~49% baseline in 2012. Obama beat that margin by 2.4 percentage points, which is historically high but not off the charts. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/election-map-2012/president/?hpid=z6
Fair uses the 2 party vote share (which gives 51.4% to Obama) as opposed to the 50.6% that Obama won in the popular vote. Economic data subject to revision: the baseline will probably rise a bit.
Vote-Share Equations: November 2010 Update
Thank you!
And if that was their goal, it worked perfectly. As the events played out, though, I am not sure they had that much to worry about. Nobody seemed interested in Huntsman except the media, and while his connection to Obama hurt him, I don’t think he was what the Republican primary voters were looking for.
Yes, voters from both parties do skip voting. Voters do not vote every time. The liberal media doesn’t engage in fear mongering? Ha. Both are guilty of doing that, but Obama and his team were guilty this year. The media as whole engage in fear mongering.
You do not seem capable of the analytical skills necessary to participate in a discussion of this sort. Perhaps another message board would be better for you.
My anecdotal experience is that voters who were not registered Republicans, were indeed quite curious about this Huntsman person, and that’s what the media picked up on. I think he would have done really well with the type of voter who doesn’t like Obama all that much as a person but still believes that Obama’s reforms were necessary and should not be rolled back. Most of the people I’ve met recently would fit into that category.
Please avoid personal insults, even those not terribly well veiled by being posed semi-hypothetically.
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twickster, Elections moderator
Apologies.
No worries, you have inspired a fascinating new concept in cogitation physics, the “semi-hypothetical”. It’s a bold new advance in quantum thinking. Is the cat dead, or alive? Well, what does the cat think? Hypothetically, I mean.
The timing of that press release says, to me, that Obam knows that the Reps will be in the White house again after his term is up, and he wants to make sure, already, that it will be a sensible Republican.
What we see here is a president endorsing his future opposing candidate. I think it is classy.
“Is that something I can eat?”
I can believe that, but there aren’t too many of those people voting in the Republican primaries.