Struggling 2020 Democrat Plays Gender Card To Explain Troubles

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand currently sits at 0.8 percent in the current RealClearPolitics polling average, a scant 39.2 points behind pacesetter Joe Biden. In other words, to quote Jim Carrey in “Dumb and Dumber”: “You’re saying there’s a chance.”
Her numbers are down slightly from the early part of the campaign, when she was well on her way to the Oval Office with a jaunty 2.0 percent average. At least she’s not still lagging behind bizarre entrepreneur Andrew Yang, whose campaign has attracted attention because of the peculiar alt-right element that’s coalesced around it, or the fact that the candidate felt the need to publicly state he opposed circumcision. I guess there’s that.
So, the only reason why Gillibrand is polling in double digits is because you can’t express a number below one without a decimal point. Why is that? (Regarding her poll numbers, I mean; I’ll leave whether the decimal point was the most elegant way of arranging things to proponents of John Napier, its creator.)
Well, one could postulate it was that she was a protégé of Hillary Clinton’s in a year when the Clinton model of doing business isn’t so popular among Democrats. One could also note the protégé threw Hillary under every bus in Port Authority during the acme of the #MeToo movement, becoming one of the first major Democrats to say that Bill Clinton should have resigned for his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
In other words, Gillibrand probably oughtn’t be looking for support from anyone who feels strongly one way or the other about the issue. This actually isn’t an uncommon problem for Gillibrand, who had to explain how she never said she wanted to abolish ICE after she said she wanted to abolish ICE.

Beyond all that, there’s the fact that Gillibrand is the kind of president you get on a low-budget FX series where the commander in chief is a woman but also plays a small role so they need someone who’ll work for scale. She is a political void.
You could hear her give a stump speech, and 10 minutes later you couldn’t identify a single talking point or even pick her out of a lineup. She has no fresh ideas. She has no ideas that haven’t been articulated by another Democrat candidate at least six times before midday. That’s why her poll numbers or so low.
Or, it could be just because you’re a bloody sexist.
I actually feel sympathy for the people who have to file campaign puff-pieces for CNN. Read the first few paragraphs of “Kirsten Gillibrand is campaigning by living her best life. So why aren’t voters responding?” by Dan Merica — a chronicle of her time campaigning in New Hampshire — and tell me that you don’t know whether to be embarrassed for Merica, for Gillibrand or for both.

“It’s 6:30 a.m. on a Saturday and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is wide awake and visibly pumped that The Killers is blaring in an exposed brick cycling studio here in downtown Manchester,” Merica writes. “Surrounded by six of her aides in what has become a campaign trail ritual, the New York Democrat bops in and out of the saddle as Rag’n’Bone Man’s ‘Human’ and Cold War Kids’ ‘First’ thumps out of the speakers.
“‘You don’t really come here to be comfortable,’ shouts another Kirstin, the instructor here at FortCycle. ‘I don’t even know how we keep going!'”
I don’t know how you do with that playlist, either. This sounds like a candidate who considers The Cure “too indie” for her tastes. And remember how we used to rag on Hillary Clinton’s bibulousness on the campaign trail? I never thought I’d hear myself say this, but I want that back.

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