2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: wasserman schultz said something today about the debates that really concerned me... [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... and that this was just one more way that they could keep the spotlight off of Kucinich as a potential "progressive option" to be involved with the primaries later in to them to provide more progressive viewpoints in his answers in the debate. When they dinged Edwards right before Super Tuesday, in effect this in effect pushed those progressive voters that had moved to him from Kucinich as a "realistic choice" in to feeling they did not having anyone and therefore many moved to Obama's more nebulous campaign "hoping" for good answers that never came instead of having answers like where Hillary stood on middle east war that they already didn't like. If Edwards were outed earlier, who knows how much more support Kucinich might have gotten then. Even if he hadn't won, he could have had the ability to keep the debate dialogue still having more substance from a progressive standpoint had he been able to stay in the race longer.