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Warpy

(111,489 posts)
1. it's all name recognition right now
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 07:59 PM
Jun 2015

which is why Clinton continues to poll so well while Sanders is fighting for traction. People don't really start paying attention for another year.

So yeah, I hope he spends a lot of money, especially over the next six months.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
4. Agree - probably just a matter of time before he does something crazy. Here's the GOP
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 08:12 PM
Jun 2015

Primary Schedule - Should be over by March for sure. Frontloaded

 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
2. He will spend as much as he did on the detectives who sleuthed Obama's birth certificate...
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 08:04 PM
Jun 2015

Which would be NOTHING!

He is not afraid to just make up shit and spew verbal dysentery all over the media.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
5. Yup...but have to admit his diatribes against China ripping us off - filling our
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 08:19 PM
Jun 2015

stores with cheap goods and raking in zillions could have broad appeal. It even pisses me off that we don't stock/manufacture more and there isn't a bigger push to buy American. But then, we are in a global economy where it makes sense for those to produce the products that they make the best and at the lowest cost, huh.

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
3. Yes. Let his candidacy last as long as possible. Through all the debates.
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 08:08 PM
Jun 2015

Not only would it be hilarious, but it would damage the "legitimate" candidates.

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