Q: Any hope for Rand Paul? — commenter Dana Renee
A: Errrr. No, sadly for anyone who has enjoyed Paul’s particularly salty brand of campaigning (he did a social media “airing of grievances” in the tradition of Festivus right around Christmastime, which was delightfully Grinchy). He’s down around 4 percent of the votes reported so far. Despite those very loud cheers you might have heard for Paul at the debate, he’s better at getting college kids to pepper events with hoots and hollers than he is at turning out wide swaths of the electorate. It’s just a year where people were swayed more by national security and existential immigration fears than they were by a ballooning national debt and military spending, Paul’s mainstays.
