If that's what she wants she's just too stupid to get politics, at all.
The media learned nothing from the success of Trump's shambolic campaign
Steve M. quotes a BuzzFeed story.
“I tend to agree with some of the stories ... but I look at him and he’s the only one that gives me that hope,” said Anne Phillips, a graphic designer who saw O’Rourke interviewed for a podcast in Cedar Rapids.
“I want reconciliation, and he brings that to my heart. I sense in him that he can bring us back together.”
So he's getting the sap vote.
Anyway, this is Steve's point.
The criticisms of O'Rourke are valid.
He's extremely vague on policy.
He's getting away with a Kerouac act that a female candidate, especially one with small children, couldn't.
Some of his votes in Congress weren't progressive.
What he said about the division of parenting labor in his marriage was sexist.
But whatever he's doing is working.
Donald Trump had a sloppy, unstructured campaign in 2016, and while he had a lot of help -- from Russia, from James Comey, from the Hillary-loathing media -- he won the nomination and the election.
The lesson the media should have learned from that is that rigorous attention to campaign detail might not be the secret to electoral success.
Inspiring large masses of voters might matter a lot more.
It's quite possible that O'Rourke will stumble, and the campaign problems raised in the Politico story might be the cause of his downfall.
But the press predicted Trump's downfall every day for a year and half, and it never came.
The media should at least acknowledge that the importance of proper form might be overrated, and that a candidate with celebrity dazzle might win even if his campaign breaks most of the rules.
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