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Larry Lessig Dumps His Promise To Resign The Presidency In An Attempt To Get People To Take His Campaign Seriously
We've written a few times about Larry Lessig's somewhat wacky campaign for President, which was premised on the idea that it was a "referendum" campaign, where his entire focus would be to push Congress into putting in place serious campaign finance reform and then resigning from the Presidency. As we noted, the whole thing was a bit of a gimmick. And apparently that gimmick hasn't been working too well.
Earlier this month, Lessig noted that he was being shut out from the Democratic debates, despite being a Democrat running for President and polling roughly on par with a few of the other nobodies in the campaign. The problem is that the Democratic National Committee apparently chose to ignore the campaign and because it refused to officially "welcome" him to the campaign, pollsters aren't including him and thus he didn't have enough polling data to be invited to the debate.
[...] Late on Friday (not exactly the best time to announce anything but bad news...) Lessig announced that he's dropping the promise to resign, because while it may have gotten some attention as an initial gimmick, it was also dragging him down (including potentially keeping him out of the debates).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @06:23PM
Bernie has always refused to go negative in his campaigns.
Radio/TV host Thom Hartmann is an unflinching Democrat.
He refers to Democrats ragging on other Democrats as a circular firing squad and notes that it is a losing strategy for the party.
The Reds are doing more than enough of that on their own.
(We should note at this point the low comedy that is the performance of the Reds on the Benghazi committee.)
-- gewg_
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday October 24 2015, @07:35PM
He refers to Democrats ragging on other Democrats as a circular firing squad and notes that it is a losing strategy for the party.
For the party. For Bernie Sanders and anyone who buys into the same beliefs, it's probably the only chance he has.