2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDo not mistake Walker for a clown
Do not mistake Walker for a clown, though. He knows exactly what he's doing. He backed off the University of Wisconsin shenanigans, for instance, making up a story about a "drafting error." And a staffer later "clarified" that of course Walker knows Obama is a Christian. The conservatives that Walker is playing to hear the original remarks and ignore the clarifications; the media then downplays the original remarks because of the clarifications, so they have less of an impact with ordinary folks (who, in any event, won't tune into the presidential race for quite some time).
Add in Walker's sleepy-eyed appearancehe certainly doesn't look like a crazy screamerand he could fool a lot of people. After all, he's already won three times in swingy Wisconsin, and he has an extraordinarily large fundraising list, made up of small donors and big Koches alike. If there's a Republican contender I'm most worried about in 2016, it's Scott Walker. He's crafty, he's canny, and while it's early yet, this poll at least shows he could very well be the GOP nominee, so watch out for him, very closely.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/24/1366565/-Scott-Walker-surges-to-the-top-of-the-GOP-pack-Why-Because-he-s-played-conservatives-brilliantly?detail=email
Cal33
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(16,149 posts)Or maybe that was Diebold/SES that gave us the last 4...who knows?!?!
BlancheSplanchnik
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(57,152 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)"dangerous clown?"