Twitter candidate supporters with a non-scientific Twitter poll about his Twitter candidacy.
Bears repeating.
Well, it’s not surprising Yang feels that way since he draws support from the fringes of Trump country. From earlier in the thread:
It’s interesting to see Ron Paul’s name mentioned on this thread. Back in June, I made an analogy between Andrew Yang’s candidacy and Ron Paul’s.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21708726&postcount=16
It’s easier to run as a fringe candidate and stay in the race longer these days. Like others, I tend to view Yang’s candidacy as a distraction. I don’t want to see his name mentioned past the end of January. Enough people have seen his talking points, but this race, this election is too serious for candidates that aren’t ready to govern on day one.
Beat you to it, asahi…from March 11 of 2019 and in this very thread.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21536158&postcount=311
Not that I’m competitive or anything 
This, right here, is what I find unlikeable about Yang, and about “outsiders” in general.
He IS a politician. He’s running for President, and to say “I’m not a politician” is either amazingly stupid or amazingly dishonest. Ulf nails it; if Yang wants to be a politician, and that is what he is implicitly saying, then he needs to make politics his business. And if politics is your business, you know the rules.
Well, I thought about it first.
Moreover, if you’re going to apply for the job of president, you have to know that your job is to surround yourself with people who are competent in things like law and administration. If Yang can’t even get his name on the ballot, and if he can’t hire people who can make that happen, then that’s not really sending the right message.
Who knows … maybe the Yang Gang is the new Peanut Brigade !
Bears too?
Seriously, I first ran into the UBI concept in the SF writings of Mack Reynolds and he died in 1983.
His wife was sexually assaulted while pregnant , guy assaulted other women but he served no time
He is up to 8% in one poll. If Trump wins this year I think Yang has a good shot at being Dem nominee in 2024. He’s young enough he could run in 2028 should a Dem win this year. I bought his book I will let you know about it in a week or so.
He made the Feb. 7th debate in NH
God damn it! Tired of his cult and Yang being the Ben Carson, running only to sell books and increase his value on the speaking circuit
Yang has succeeded in getting more name recognition and support than I think even he thought was remotely likely to occur and kudos to him for that.
OTOH I think he has completely failed to accomplish what I believe was his actual main goal in running. He knew and knows he has no chance of being the nominee; he was hoping to shoehorn universal basic income in as part of the debate, a bigger part of the discussion, to get other candidates with better chances of winning to take it up. And that discussion has just not caught on. Warren had at one point said it was worth considering but her wealth tax is where her discussion is at, but that is it. Biden, Sanders, and even Buttigieg have either not taken it up or explicitly come out against it, and it has not caught on as a subject of interest in general.
My WAG is that awareness of the UBI concept is pretty flat since the first debate and that net unfavorability of it is also unchanged. His likable style has won some new supporters, but the idea that he means to promote has just been a lead balloon. Rightfully so mind you.
I do agree and that’s a good point. Whether Yang likes it or not, the change and radical new idea faction of the party is consumed with populist anger over the financial crisis (even ten years later) college debt, and health care.
If Yang wants to make UBI part of the party discussion, he should hit the college speaking circuit hard over the next
couple of years. Nothing stays the same in politics and I don’t know what the issues will be in 2022 and 2024, but I don’t think big banks/Wall Street will have the same pitchforks and torches appeal. College debt relief and affordable college will be an issue, I think, but they’ll be other new approaches thrown out as straight canceling of debt and universal free college is gonna be a very tough sell.
People hate Yang because of his followers? Makes no sense at all
Makes plenty of sense to me.
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Is he supposed to disown his fans? I don’t think they are doing anything illegal are they? He may stick around for super Tuesday but I doubt he stays longer than that.
Krystal Ball tweet from 1/26/20:
From the latest Emerson poll, from 1/23-26/20 favorabilty of UBI is at 53%.
That’s up from 48% favorable/52% unfavorable in a Gallup poll in 2/18. Or up from 43% in a another Gallup poll comparing other countries in June 2019. Or up from 49% favorable/ 52% unfavorable in a The Hill/HarrisX poll in September 2019. In the video, they reported an increase from February 2019 which showed a 43% favorability with the same question.
Yang says that their internal polling shows UBI favorability at 61%.
Looking back at the data, these polls are not exactly an apples to apples match to the Emerson poll. The Emerson poll included registered Democrats and Independents. The Gallup polls included Republicans. The HarrisX poll is unclear. Since I couldn’t find any other UBI poll that matched the data set exactly, these are guideposts for reference.