“I received a flyer for Flynn multiple times a week for months. Made me 100% sure I wasn’t going to vote for him.”
“Great! I voted for her. There IS a point where you can run too many commercials. Was turned off by the non stop deluge of ads from the Flynn PAC. A little more restraint might have tricked people. Way too obvious of an attempt to buy a seat.”
“I guess you really can’t buy anything with crypto.”
The Reddit comments I’ve seen have been largely the same as well: people being tired of apparently incessant campaign ads along with some suspicion of large out of state money and crypto.
Here are some impressions of him from various influential Oregonians. No idea how these six were chosen from the “more than a dozen” originally interviewed.
It seems reasonable that most of these people were selected because they were expected to be hostile and aligned with other candidates.
This belief is because it is probably this sort of “local establishment” to whom the EA candidate had the weakest comparative ties (or even was threatening to), and also because the WW put out specific aggressive pieces of low substance (the “owl” quote).
Maybe someone should user-interview or survey Oregonians to see what made people not want to vote for Carrick
Just some random Twitter comments I’ve seen:
“I received a flyer for Flynn multiple times a week for months. Made me 100% sure I wasn’t going to vote for him.”
“Great! I voted for her. There IS a point where you can run too many commercials. Was turned off by the non stop deluge of ads from the Flynn PAC. A little more restraint might have tricked people. Way too obvious of an attempt to buy a seat.”
“I guess you really can’t buy anything with crypto.”
“Crypto bro goes down just like crypto did”
(https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1526765055391432704)
The Reddit comments I’ve seen have been largely the same as well: people being tired of apparently incessant campaign ads along with some suspicion of large out of state money and crypto.
A couple of random threads:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/u2c69t/carrick_flynn_cryptobacked_candidate_in_new/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SALEM/comments/u9lmir/carrick_flynns_bizarre_response_to_where_he_voted/
Here are some impressions of him from various influential Oregonians. No idea how these six were chosen from the “more than a dozen” originally interviewed.
It seems reasonable that most of these people were selected because they were expected to be hostile and aligned with other candidates.
This belief is because it is probably this sort of “local establishment” to whom the EA candidate had the weakest comparative ties (or even was threatening to), and also because the WW put out specific aggressive pieces of low substance (the “owl” quote).