First of all, the primary schedules are different so December 2019 isn’t the same as December 2015. But more importantly for the Yang Gang, qualifying with local state polls requires 7% in two polls. That is a hopeless goal for Yang.
I said he’s the Snakes on a Plane Candidate. All the rage on Twitter but a bomb at the boxoffice.
Except his campaign is raking in the dough. Main expense seem to be giving some shlub a Freedom Dividend.
Let me know when he breaks 5% in any meaningful poll.
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Why are there such negative feelings towards Yang? He’s not going to win but he could make a good cabinet secretary if a Dem wins.
September 2019? Guess he’s losing support since in anything recent he has a high water mark of 6% - and that’s in a more recent Emerson poll!
Maybe you can find some polls from 2018 which get him into the January debate?
No, he wouldn’t. I’ll assume he made a decent “entrepreneur ambassador” or whatever he was for Obama but he deserves no national scale powers.
Yang fails to qualify for the Ohio primary for some paperwork error in circulating his petitions.
Cue the YangGang whining about how the man is keeping Yang down, even though no other candidacy seems to be having this problem in Ohio.
Yang’s response, in part: "“My campaign submitted nearly three times the amount of signatures needed, virtually ensuring I would be on the ballot in Ohio. Nevertheless, because of a bureaucratic paperwork issue caused by an awkwardly-worded law, nearly 3,000 Ohioans’ First Amendment rights have been denied. As a non-politician, it’s unfathomable that this could happen…”
Bolding mine.
Wow.
I guess I should wait to see whether any other candidate also gets ruled off the ballot, but if it’s just Yang then this is a very, very bad look for the campaign. Maybe I’m slightly biased because I got my political chops in Chicago, where ruling people’s petitions invalid is a national pastime, but any serious campaign and any serious candidate needs to make it their business (and usually does) to research the ins and outs of ballot access in every. single. state. If there’s an “awkwardly-worded law,” you get on the horn to the state officials who can explain it to you. If you’re a “non-politician” you make sure to surround yourself with people who ARE politicians enough to know the quagmire that ballot access rules can be.
Unfathomable indeed. But not perhaps for the reasons Yang thinks. Guess we’ll see if anyone else has this problem too.
It’s just a talking point: “As a businessman I can cut through government nonsense.”
Meanwhile, beyond the talking point:
- As President he will have absolutely dick to do with changing election laws in 50 states and the handful of territories.
- None of the other candidates seem to be having an issue.
- Sometimes the government is better at some things. That’s why government-run healthcare across the planet does better than our model.
Wow, Yang hates Medicare for All, what a shock.
Oh, I think it has less to do with being a businessman cutting through government nonsense and more an attempt to say “It’s not my fault–it’s the stupid rules. Be mad at the state, be mad at the guy enforcing the rules, don’t be mad at me.”
Seems to be working on his supporters, as you predicted. Check out the comments on the tweet dalej42 linked to.
Of course, being a write-in candidate is not necessarily the kiss of death–consider Lisa Murkowski. Maybe this is just the break the Yang campaign is looking for!
Just created a thread about January polls but Yang came in at less than 3% so that really doesn’t bode well for him making the next debate.
Funny pic of the day.
CNBC just posted a video of the Presidential campaign hauls. On the graphic, they have the numbers for Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard. For the pictures, there’s another asian guy for Yang and Kirsten Gillibrand for Tulsi.
This was one of the comments from the youtube video they took down. I just happened to have it open on my browser while they were taking it down.
After the Yang campaign and the Yang Gang had a good laugh about it, and The Hill did a piece mocking them, CNBC took down the video and put out an apology in another piece.
It turns out that the picture was for a guy named Geoff Yang who is on the board of AT&T.
I watched the video before they took it down. They saved the biggest slam for Bernie. The talking head said that if teachers are Bernie’s biggest contributors, are they teaching all their students about socialism.
The incompetence of the networks is craptastic.
In unrelated news, I thought this article was interesting. After slamming Yang for the first half of the article, a writer in The American Conservative decided that UBI might be a conservative policy, using all of Yang’s talking points.
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Universal Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Andrew Yang’s signature policy has propelled him to fame for a reason: it addresses a serious problem that looms over our economy.*
This week is Yangweek for the Yang Gang. People are going to Iowa from all over the world to canvass for Yang in Iowa starting this week.
I’ve watched endless hours of Squawk Box on CNBC box, they’re pretty hard right with some libertarian tendencies so I imagine Yang is one of their Democrats they like. Some intern really messed up bad on probably her/his first week.
I like UBI.
I am ambivalent about Yang.
I think his fan club sucks goat ass.
I agree some of the Yang fans are over the top, very much like some Ron Paul fans in 2012. I think most Yang fans are like me, not like those fanatics.
I’d like to see Yang continue on the debate stage so that the other candidates will start to ripping off some of his ideas.
I particularly like his approach to Trump voters. Don’t just call them racists and wash your hands of them. Ask yourself what would cause so many americans to vote for someone like trump and continue to support someone like trump and try to answer the question without assuming or concluding that they are bad people.
Going back to the graphics snafu, Geoff Yang spoke up.
The new joke is that the network will claim that Andrew Yang dropped out based on this statement.
Interesting. I don’t watch MSM, but if I had to guess, I’d guess they don’t know Yang’s platform. If they said anything positive about him, I would think I’d have read about it.
Any thoughts on why all of these graphics are messed up as well? A Visual History of the #YangMediaBlackout They’re all examples of the same kind of thing. That’s a lot of first week interns.
I’ve watched people in the Yang Gang or Yang himself trying to understand why it’s happening. They’re at a loss. Thinking that there’s that much incompetence going on is bewildering. In the beginning, it was easier to believe that they just didn’t think about him or remember him, but lately, that doesn’t explain all the graphics errors that skip over him, considering they’re looking at the poll numbers as they create the graphic.
You can vent away in the comments.
Half the Yang Gang in the comments voted for Yang because they voted without looking at the question. lol
I think they’d almost have to be. Without the Yang Gang, there probably wouldn’t be much happening in the early days of the campaign. There’s no media coverage since he’s an unknown. There was no money since he didn’t have many followers in the beginning, so no ads. His campaign grew first by social media and then by word of mouth from people on social media. Without fervent fans growing the following on social media, there wouldn’t be much of a following. Like anything happening online, things can go south fast on the fringes. That said, I think they try to do their best to try to get people to behave better with their slogan Humanity First!
From what I’ve seen of Yang, this would be Yang’s dream come true. Since the beginning, he was trying to get other candidates to take on his platform, particularly trying to unite the country and trying to get the party to accept Trump voters. He felt that his platform on automation and UBI would do that.