Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign
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Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign
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Re: Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign
#2Can someone give me a rundown of how anyone expected anything different to come out of this? Polling at 0% isn't exactly fixed by a televised debate. Sanders is competing with Hillary on a fairly close scale and yet a lot of people still say he has no chance (though I definitely think he does at this point, but I'm not a US citizen so...), so what could possibly happen with Lessig?
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#3That was inevitable. It's a shame, too - he's not wrong, he's just underfunded and naive.
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#4Good cause but wrong candidate. Also hard to ask people to vote for you when you say you will quit after getting elected.
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#5Honestly, his plan never made sense.
Even if he somehow won the election, he still would not have the power to change congress (or the Citizen's United ruling) one bit.
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#6Can someone give me a rundown of how anyone expected anything different to come out of this? Polling at 0% isn't exactly fixed by a televised debate. Sanders is competing with Hillary on a fairly close scale and yet a lot of people still say he has no chance (though I definitely think he does at this point, but I'm not a US citizen so...), so what could possibly happen with Lessig?
I'm not sure Lessig expected anything different to come out of this. Sometimes people run to draw attention to some ideas, rather than because they think they have a realistic chance.
In other words, Lessig didn't need to win in order to win. (Whether he actually won, in the second sense, is a different question...)
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#7Can someone give me a rundown of how anyone expected anything different to come out of this? Polling at 0% isn't exactly fixed by a televised debate. Sanders is competing with Hillary on a fairly close scale and yet a lot of people still say he has no chance (though I definitely think he does at this point, but I'm not a US citizen so...), so what could possibly happen with Lessig?
As far as I understand, at least per Lessig's team:
Dems said in order to participate in debate, you must poll 1% in three polls IN the six weeks prior to the debate. Depending on what polls were counted, Lessig either qualified or were one poll away from doing so.
Dems then “clarified” rules as being 1% in three polls AT LEAST six weeks prior to the debate.
HuffPo op-ed from Lessig's campaign manager: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-jarding/the-democrats-ha...
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#8Can someone give me a rundown of how anyone expected anything different to come out of this? Polling at 0% isn't exactly fixed by a televised debate. Sanders is competing with Hillary on a fairly close scale and yet a lot of people still say he has no chance (though I definitely think he does at this point, but I'm not a US citizen so...), so what could possibly happen with Lessig?
Lessig never wanted to be president; he wanted a podium. But you can't say that. If he indicated he wasn't serious about being president in any way, they never would have let him on stage.
That being said, I think it's shameful he hasn't endorsed Sanders. Lessig acts like he's the only one working on it. Whether or not you like Sanders, he is the only viable candidate whose core issue is overturning Citizens United. I realize Sanders is less known for that and more known for democratic socialism, which is probably Lessig's hesitation. However, it always bothered me how little Lessig acknowledged the only candidate on either side with any chance of initiating campaign finance reform. If he really cared about campaign finance reform, he'd be out stumping for Sanders rather than this "running for president" publicity stunt.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3icikb/we_are_larry_l...
His Reddit answer boils down to "Bernie's plan won't work but I won't say why. My plan will work but I won't say way."
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#9Honestly, his plan never made sense. Even if he somehow won the election, he still would not have the power to change congress (or the Citizen's United ruling) one bit.
That's true of Sanders, too.
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#10Can someone give me a rundown of how anyone expected anything different to come out of this? Polling at 0% isn't exactly fixed by a televised debate. Sanders is competing with Hillary on a fairly close scale and yet a lot of people still say he has no chance (though I definitely think he does at this point, but I'm not a US citizen so...), so what could possibly happen with Lessig?
By participating in the debate, presumably Lessig could have at least gotten his issue out there. As others pointed out months ago in reference to Sanders[1], a "win" wouldn't necessarily be getting the nomination, but in getting the nominee to endorse positions that they wouldn't have otherwise.
[1] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-president...