Tom Tancredo’s apparently dropping out of the race today, apparently.
The man had a reasonable niche he could have filled early on if all the other candidates hadn’t moved to fill it as well, squeezing him out. That and the shrillness he apparently resonated in the debates probably doomed him. The fact that his niche was filled early on in the campaign probably doomed him in some ways, as niche candidates, by definition, require a niche to fit into. Without that, he just couldn’t catch on by rounding up all the Buchananite support. Ultimately, this will probably have no substantive impact on the race, as his support base was negligible.
And I was rather looking forward to seeing if he’d outpoll Thompson in New Hampshire.
*thinks*
I’m still looking forward to whether or not that happens.
