The narrative Fiorina is gaining support is belied by the numbers. But it doesn’t matter whether she does what she set out to do: give Republicans cover for sexismIn a campaign as long and filled with unnecessary months as this one,it’s easy to get carried away – like in the rush to proclaim that there is a Carly Fiorina boom going on. We wanted it for our soap opera; we’d already seen so many stories of the brash businessman, the gifted doctor, or the young Latino gentleman. But in the latest PPP poll,Fiorina stands at just 6% – better than only Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, or the people still running because their moms won’t let them quit. It’s not a winning number.
It was easy to get caught up in the drama,once Fiorina displayed a minor flair for it and exceeded the early, low expectations for her candidacy. I’d seen her give a presentation at CPAC, and it was strikingly dreary even in a room full of committed fans: she spoke with an nearly peevish cadence,as whether she disliked shaping her mouth around her crisply articulated consonants, and she rarely raised her even tone, and stopping only at a kind of exasperation. It is probably a remarkable corporate boardroom approach,one that makes others literally lean in to hear her calmly berate someone, but it didn’t seem like it would translate well to the stump.
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Source: theguardian.com