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Scott Walker's Fading Campaign...
Topic Started: Aug 29 2015, 12:41 AM (177 Views)
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Weekly Standard: A Fading Campaign

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It’s been a rough month for Scott Walker. From February through July, the Wisconsin governor topped virtually every poll of likely GOP voters in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses. But after a lackluster performance in the opening Republican presidential debate on August 6, Walker dropped nearly 10 points in an average of Iowa polls, sliding to third place behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson, with Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio close behind.

Is Walker’s dive a temporary blip or a sign of deeper problems with the candidate? The case for calm is fairly strong. There are five months and five more debates left until anyone must settle on a candidate. Trumpmania has overtaken the entire GOP field, not just Walker. When the “frontrunner” is only polling in the high teens or low twenties, the title doesn’t mean much—voters remain undecided. And Walker continues to lay the groundwork for long-term victory: On August 18, he introduced a plan to repeal Obamacare that Yuval Levin, a leading conservative reformer, called “the most substantively and politically serious conservative health care reform we have yet seen from a presidential candidate.” There’s still hope for Walker that when the dust settles he’ll be the candidate left standing who can unite a fractious party.

But signs of deeper trouble for Walker are also strong. The theory behind a Walker candidacy is that after two terms of Barack Obama, voters are ready for a workhorse, not a showhorse. The Trump phenomenon may indicate that’s not true, and voters still want a candidate with charisma—someone who can inspire or, in the case of Trump, at least entertain them.

-Read more: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/fading-campaign_1020681.html
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