Holiday malaise for establishment Republicans as Carson, Trump surge

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/holiday-malaise-for-establishment-republicans-as-carson-trump-surge/2015/11/15/de912cc6-8ba7-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html

The Iowa caucuses are 11 weeks away. That is a lifetime in a political campaign. Except that it’s really not.

The campaign is about to enter its holiday period — a time when people, including Iowans and New Hampshire types, start paying much more attention to how to stuff their turkey and what’s under the Christmas tree than they do to politics. TV ads, stump speeches and even debates tend to get lost — or plain ignored — in the holiday maelstrom.

Thanksgiving is in less than two weeks. Christmas is four weeks after that. A week later, it’s New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day. Suddenly, it’s Jan. 4, and the caucuses are only 28 days away.

That’s the real calendar math of 2016. The race is almost certain to freeze in place — or close to it — in 10 days, only to thaw a few days into the new year.

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May they all have malaise this Festivus

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1. my R SIL is in the malaise - beside herself that she has no one to vote for

good---maybe she'll stay home this time around.

[underpants]

2. Yep. At most 2 weeks left and the poll numbers will sit until January

everybody better make their charge at the front runners in any debates that are left.

BTW Trumps rant last week was him going for the "kill" on Carson. Carson isn't campaigning right now either so he is a boat adrift in the water.