From the
Politico.com - by Jonathon Martin - With a month left until the
midterm elections, there is something noticeably absent from some key statewide races: the candidates. They’re ducking public events, refusing to publicize the ones they do hold and skipping debates and national TV interviews altogether – out of fear of a gotcha moment that will come back to haunt them. It’s mostly, but not entirely, a Republican phenomenon. In some cases, a
tea-party-oriented candidate has made a plain calculation that a one-day, process story about an absence from the campaign trail or a refusal to debate is less damaging than the captured-on-tape gaffe the candidate could make when facing reporters. As of Friday, Colorado Republican Senate hopeful
Ken Buck had gone nine consecutive days without holding a public event and acknowledged to The Denver Post that he’s more mindful now that he’s constantly being recorded by the ubiquitous 'trackers' being used by both sides. (With the fundraising quarter now done, however, he’s planning a more robust schedule for October.)
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2010: Year of the missing candidate
From the Politico.com - by Jonathon Martin - With a month left until the midterm elections, there is something noticeably absent from some key statewide races: the candidates. They’re ducking public events, refusing to publicize the ones they do hold and skipping debates and national TV interviews altogether – out of fear of a gotcha moment that will come back to haunt them. It’s mostly, but not entirely, a Republican phenomenon. In some cases, a tea-party-oriented candidate has made a plain calculation that a one-day, process story about an absence from the campaign trail or a refusal to debate is less damaging than the captured-on-tape gaffe the candidate could make when facing reporters. As of Friday, Colorado Republican Senate hopeful Ken Buck had gone nine consecutive days without holding a public event and acknowledged to The Denver Post that he’s more mindful now that he’s constantly being recorded by the ubiquitous 'trackers' being used by both sides. (With the fundraising quarter now done, however, he’s planning a more robust schedule for October.) Read more
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