2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf you're polling at 0% or 1% or 2%, wouldn't you get out of the race at this point?
Just to save yourself, and your family, the embarrassment?
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)that you don't have to pay back
brooklynite
(94,503 posts)Besides, most of these folks don't have anything better to do.
Cry
(65 posts)Besides, most of these folks don't have anything better to do.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)underpants
(182,778 posts)Here he comes. The energy is undeniable.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)underpants
(182,778 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Cmon everyone knows it's all about the money. What's morals, ethics, embarrassment next to sweet sweet cash?
Do I have to mention
Yavin4
(35,437 posts)Hell, everyone on DU could get zero.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)That, and right-wing people don't do "I was wrong".
Look at how many of them STILL think we should have stayed in Vietnam(even though some of them were in preschool when the troops came home).
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)that'd keep them there, for no other reason than building funds for their next run at their day job.
I imagine, too, that hope springs eternal for them -- they hope the frontrunners will stumble and they may gain in the wake. Look at Fiorina: Went from second team debate squad to first tier based on nothing more than nothing, a "perception" that she had done better than those she wasn't even on the stage with and never got to confront.
And too, I suspect that each of them hopes to influence the ongoing debate and draw the conversation towards their favored ideas.
Finally, some may be trying to position themselves for either a VP pick, a spot in the new administration (hoping against hope a Republican may win), or trying to place themselves in a manner that they'll have a better shot next election.
Or it could just be pure ego and delusion. Take your pick.
Xipe Totec
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Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)Doesn't Graham have anything better to do?
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tritsofme
(17,376 posts)Not to actually be president. They are looking for book deals and future WH gigs.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)At least attend a debate or two. Get on TV. See if you can reach the people.
And if nothing else, well, you got to be on TV.
Bryant
livetohike
(22,140 posts)GOP candidates staying in until Iowa. At some point the donors have to be pulling back.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)I believe O'Malley could provide some competition for Bernie at that time.
ram2008
(1,238 posts)If you're at horrible favorability, are not raising money, and aren't really bringing something special to the table that's already there then you should probably leave the race.
In my view, that would mean Chafee should get out of the race on the Democratic side, and Gilmore, Pataki, Graham and probably Perry on the Republican side.