Fuzzy Bear
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« on: March 22, 2015, 08:05:32 PM » |
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Kucinich didn't get momentum because he's perceived as a loser, and this is a problem for a candidate. If people think you're a loser before you show up for the first debate, you have probably too much of a hard row to hoe to make it. Donors aren't going to fund a candidate they believe is sure to lose for any other reason than a siphoning operation against an enemy.
Lots of guys have this issue. Nixon had to overcome the "loser" image in 1968; it was an image that hung on and it kept others in the game. It haunts Rick Perry (who's a joke) and Rick Santorum (who is more competent, but who lost big in 2006). It cost McGovern influence in his party; he was never viewed, even to the left, in the light that Barry Goldwater was viewed by the GOP. (Goldwater's lost was the first step toward making the GOP a victorious conservative party; McGovern's loss became an albatross around the party's neck to this day.)
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