Don't be surprised if Marianne Williamson makes it to the next debate.

[madaboutharry]

I checked her website and she needs a little under 35,000 more donations. She might do it.

Totally irrelevant to whether she is qualified or not to serve as president she has great looking merchandise.

[PoliticAverse]

1. "Marianne Williamson was the most searched candidate on Google on first night of Democratic debate"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/07/31/democratic-debate-google-searches/1880321001/

[W_HAMILTON]

2. She also has to get 2%+ in four eligible polls over the next month.

I don't believe she's polled at 2%+ in any eligible polls thus far.

She's most likely done when it comes to the debates.

[madaboutharry]

4. That might be tough to do.

However, people might give her the boost just to see her in the next debate.

[Hortensis]

14. This. Those googlers won't exactly all be admirers.

It would only take a tiny percentage who decided we really needed a president who could channel the good energy of the universe to get her to the donation requirement, but meeting the polls requirement? Not going to happen.

[BannonsLiver]

15. As far as I'm concerned they're just as likely to be googling from St. Petersburg

[Hortensis]

16. :) Very possibly. If they are, it's agitprop to the electorate

about what radical wingnuts Democrats and our candidates are. The usual.

[MontanaMama]

3. I wonder if big repuke donors would

throw money her way to cause chaos in our party. We need to lose a few candidates soon, imho. Time to focus and pare down the field. I think Delaney, Ryan, Hickenlooper and Williamson could go for starters.

[SCantiGOP]

10. Not being done that way

Several right wing sites are encouraging their readers to donate $1 to her so she gets to stay in the debate since they believe (as I do) that she makes the Democratic Party look flaky and not serious.

[hlthe2b]

5. She's been trying to do a "damage control" tour to address her anti-vax, anti-psych drug comments

and related. She was just on Ari and clearly was trying hard to deny being anti-science at all but merely not trusting of big Pharmax.

Given I remember her smearing the scientists and advisory panel members of CDC with being in the pocket of the same Big PharmaX, she has more convincing to do with me.

[madaboutharry]

6. Sometimes it is hard to outrun one's past comments and pronouncements.

She did just now, on Ari's show, apologize for her "clinical depression" remark. But she has said a great deal of New Age kind of things that will be hard to explain to the general public.

In the end it won't matter. For whatever reasons people find her interesting, she doesn't have any chance of getting the nomination. And I am sure she knows it.

[JI7]

8. if they find her interesting they can listen to her in other settings

[Bradshaw3]

13. This

The fawning over her is a little scary.

[Tarc]

7. That would be a shame, as a Stein-like anti-vaxxer is the last thing we need going forward.

[redstateblues]

9. God save us. It makes our party look so unserious. We have a cohort of Jenny McCarthy on stage

[IcyPeas]

11. she was on TMZ this afternoon too....

she is wanted by all the news media. Harvy Levin aske her about being perceived as a flake. it was interesting. she knows how she is perceived but gave a good answer (maybe it'll be online later). (being on TMZ reaches a totally different audience, Mayor Pete has been on it twice now)

[ancianita]

12. I'm just pissed off that Andy Yang HASN'T. He's got tech people who've got answers. I'm sad.

[DesertRat]

17. I read your post as making it to tonight's debate

I imagined her just showing up on stage.