Walker : Undecided on Iowa Straw Poll, May Skip FL Primary

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/26/scott-walker-may-let-jeb-bush-and-marco-rubio-fight-over-florida/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Politics&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Perhaps he can skip Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada too.

[retromike22]

I was actually thinking about this a few days ago, where there's so many candidates that all of them decide to avoid states where they know it's almost impossible to win.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I was actually thinking about this a few days ago, where there's so many candidates that all of them decide to avoid states where they know it's almost impossible to win.

I know candidates have skipped Iowa or New Hampshire relatively successfully in the past, but I think doing any more than that (and possibly doing even that, this time around) is basically admitting defeat. There are enough candidates in that some of them are going to run in all the primaries and have a degree of representation in all the caucuses. Skipping contests is going to look like defeat after other candidates with similar profiles make any showing at all.

In Walker's case, with his inept pre-campaign, coming out with a "strategy" that says "well, I don't have a chance in Florida" feels off-putting, in exactly the way a would-be president shouldn't.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

If he wins Iowa and New Hampshire, he doesn't need Florida.

[Türkisblau]

Wait, he announced?

[Mr. Morden]

I was actually thinking about this a few days ago, where there's so many candidates that all of them decide to avoid states where they know it's almost impossible to win.

I know candidates have skipped Iowa or New Hampshire relatively successfully in the past, but I think doing any more than that (and possibly doing even that, this time around) is basically admitting defeat. There are enough candidates in that some of them are going to run in all the primaries and have a degree of representation in all the caucuses. Skipping contests is going to look like defeat after other candidates with similar profiles make any showing at all.

Candidates have skipped other candidates' home states plenty of times.

In any case, Florida is two weeks after Super Tuesday…the race may very well be decided by then, so what difference does it make.  Since it's Bush's and Rubio's home state, and it's WTA, Walker may only be competitive there if he's basically already won the nomination.

[Del Tachi]

Wait, he announced?

[NHI]

To be honest, I would be okay with Walker skipping the whole primary.

Coming from a Republican I cannot stand Walker.

[Likely Voter]

Bachman's win has killed it. So far the only guy who has said he will compete in it is Trump, nuf said.

[Mr. Morden]

Wait, he announced?

No, he hasn't announced.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I was actually thinking about this a few days ago, where there's so many candidates that all of them decide to avoid states where they know it's almost impossible to win.

I know candidates have skipped Iowa or New Hampshire relatively successfully in the past, but I think doing any more than that (and possibly doing even that, this time around) is basically admitting defeat. There are enough candidates in that some of them are going to run in all the primaries and have a degree of representation in all the caucuses. Skipping contests is going to look like defeat after other candidates with similar profiles make any showing at all.

Candidates have skipped other candidates' home states plenty of times.

In any case, Florida is two weeks after Super Tuesday…the race may very well be decided by then, so what difference does it make.  Since it's Bush's and Rubio's home state, and it's WTA, Walker may only be competitive there if he's basically already won the nomination.

At which point, yes, it might make some sense to focus efforts elsewhere to the point of leaving Florida on its own. But to say, now, when he hasn't even announced that he's running, "Oh, I'll be skipping Florida and probably Iowa" is foolish and tone-deaf. Yet another mistake from Team Walker in the Invisible Primary, in my opinion.

[Mr. Morden]

But to say, now, when he hasn't even announced that he's running, "Oh, I'll be skipping Florida and probably Iowa" is foolish and tone-deaf. Yet another mistake from Team Walker in the Invisible Primary, in my opinion.

He definitely won't be skipping Iowa.  He's said that he'll focus heavily on Iowa.  But the actual caucuses, not the August straw poll.  And he actually hasn't said that he'll "probably" even skip the straw poll, as you seem to suggest above.  He's just said that he's undecided on it, same as pretty much the entire rest of the field.  Only Carson and Trump have committed to competing in the straw poll so far.

[Ebsy]

This has more to do with the Straw Poll being a total sham than any candidates deciding to skip the Iowa Caucuses.