Fiorina’s Poll Numbers Circling the Drain
One of the great subplots to emerge from the 2016 presidential campaign has been the arc of former Hewlett Packard CEO and erstwhile Demon Sheeper Carly Fiorina, who went from basement-dwelling also-ran to third pillar in the GOP’s Holy Trinity of White Male Resentment in the space of a few short weeks. Now, it looks like her campaign might have gotten a prophetic omen when this happened in late September:
In August, Carly Fiorina was relegated to the GOP’s Sad Trombone Happy Hour Debate, but a couple of well-placed zingers and an avoidance of throwing up on her own shoes gave Fiorina enough of a boost in the polls to get her into the main debate in September (with a little help from CNN’s rules).
Once CNN took action that was decidedly affirmative to Fiorina’s case, she made the most of it, steamrolling debate moderators over time limits, delivering stern and articulate lists of details, and, it has to be said, delivering a pitch-perfect confrontation with Donald Trump over his attack on her looks. Fiorina also mixed in lots of figurative and literal red meat, most notably by attacking Hillary Clinton and Planned Parenthood with a description of a video that she made up in her head.
The performance paid off immediately (as I said it would), immediately rocketing Fiorina up in the Republican primary polls, along with Dr. Ben Carson. Whereas her August performance took her from Margin of Error territory into respectably high single digits, Fiorina jumped to 15% in the first poll taken after the September 16 debate. She and Ben Carson were nipping at Donald Trump’s heels, and the political media anointed her a superstar.
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Larry Schmitt October 14th, 2015 at 15:39
Couldn’t have happened to a better candidate.
Carla Akins October 14th, 2015 at 15:53
I was just thinking, ah that’s a damn shame. Mmmuuwwwahaha.
Gina Bousquet October 14th, 2015 at 16:16
Ain’t it sweet….? Aloha Fiorina.
Maxx44 October 14th, 2015 at 16:21
Circling the drain? Perfect…she now knows how HP’s employees and stockholders felt when she torpedoed their company.
FatRat October 14th, 2015 at 16:42
Circling the drain and then out to sea.
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fahvel October 15th, 2015 at 09:35
that would be environmental pollution.
bpollen October 15th, 2015 at 05:09
“Circling the drain.”
That’s her career in a nutshell.
rg9rts October 15th, 2015 at 05:26
Looks like the kiss of death is getting approval from the Koch’s
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rg9rts October 15th, 2015 at 06:02
Drop dead you POS …buy an ad