2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumVoters’ summer flings with candidates typically don’t last
By James Pindell GLOBE STAFF JULY 10, 2015
As self-described socialist Bernie Sanders and reality television star Donald Trump surge into second place in the Democratic and Republican presidential contests, some may wonder whats happening to American politics.
The answer: Its nothing new.
For the past three decades, there has been a rhythm in presidential politics. Every four years, in the summer before Iowa and New Hampshire vote, some candidate comes out of nowhere, surges in the polls, gets buzz, and then eventually returns to nowhere.
This is what UCLA professor Lynn Vavreck dubs the discovery, scrutiny, decline pattern. Party activists discover a shiny new candidate as an alternative to the races front-runner, usually when the campaign is just beginning. The insurgent faces press scrutiny and then, typically, declines.
It is not unlike products that debut and get people to try them out, said Vavreck. But what news coverage giveth, news coverage taketh away.
Four years ago, everyone was talking about former Minnesota US representative Michele Bachmann. From April to June 2011, Bachmann had picked up 8 percentage points in a University of New Hampshire poll. She was in second place behind former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. She would go on to perform so badly in the Iowa caucuses that she didnt even make it to the New Hampshire primary.
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djean111
(14,255 posts)and support Hillary! With a side of Bernie = Michelle Bachmann for a garnish!
Nope. And nope!
Is today Try a New Meme Day? Because it won't work on Bernie's supporters. Waste of time.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)3 in one day wins a spot on Ignore This Member.
Can you win the big prize?
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)corkhead
(6,119 posts)NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)Bernie is just a summer fling? LOL...pathetic. They really have nothing on him.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)about him! And there was plenty of Michelle Bachmann talk even here on DU (with no small amount of horror, of course!)....remember when she confused John Wayne with John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)And they start to think about the times they were disappointed, taken for granted and ignored.
Healthy people get out.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Man of Distinction
(109 posts)and entering the August Debates, it only gets better.
Nice hit piece, DonViejo. Will you be supporting Bernie at the end of this if he succeeds in securing the nomination?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)I support the nominee of the Democratic Party.
Man of Distinction
(109 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Really? Please show me how I am enjoying them. And the posts I make that are positive towards the Senator, are they also "hit pieces?"
beam me up scottie
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Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I'm pretty sure that is the SOP for GDP at this point.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)This will be a contested primary, and he is in for the long haul.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)At least I never thought so.
TSIAS
(14,689 posts)Is what turns a lot of people off to Clinton. They did it with supporters of Bradley. The did it especially with Howard Dean. Whenever a liberal candidate emerges the establishment portrays their supporters as out of touch elitists.
To compare Sanders to the likes of Bachmann and Trump is intellectually dishonest as I've seen.