Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Pete, what were you thinking? [View all]Celerity
(43,379 posts)It is a crazy tightrope one has to walk to run for POTUS. That WaPo piece was strangely disjointedly written, with such short quotes and then abrupt changes. It is easy to see how a pull quote was drawn out of it.
It also was 2 and half months old and in the dustbin of internet obscurity until a series of Twitter bots and trolls latched onto it a few hours ago. Out of over 800 comments (now is down to 683, so some of the bot replies must have been pulled) almost NONE came from before just a few hours ago.
He has an extraordinarily low level of scandalous behaviour, and is also so eloquent and holistic in his answers and philosophical underpinnings, that the avenues of attack open to his opponents are fairly limited. I have no doubt that oppo research teams are truly working overtime to try and brew up some.
Obviously certain forces are getting concerned as he has shot up to 3rd place and 11% (from zero just a month or so ago) in Iowa and and is also now tied for third place nationally on PredictIt. ALL candidates go through this process of orchestrated attacks, I am sure, if he as skilful as he certainly seems, he will no doubt be able to handle it.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden