I’m wondering what y’all make of Anthony Pollina’s strategy.
First, there’s his Saturday non-announcement. Before Saturday, he was considering running for governor. Someday down the line he might announce he’s running for governor. Saturday, apparently, he was apparently doing something between those two steps. I told him I hadn’t been aware there was a step between those other two. He said he seems to have invented one.
That interim step may have helped rev up the Prog troops and it may have put the Dems more on the spot in deciding whether Pollina could be the coalition candidate, but does it also serve to merely confuse the average Joe Six-Pack? Is Joe sitting home on his couch thinking this Pollina guy can’t seem to decide whether he’s running or not?
Then, Pollina told me yesterday that John Campbell, one of the Democrats consider a possible candidate for governor, won't cut it for Progs. As far as the Progs are concerned, Campbell is too much of a legislative insider and a successful candidate ought to be someone who can come at the issues another way, he said. Read: Pollina.
How’s that sit with Dems? Are they still in a position, as the larger party, to call the shots? If so, how do they manage to regain the upper hand?
- Terri Hallenbeck
