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Enter
of HuffPost Pollster’s own Mark
Blumenthal, who wants this term
to be used more realistically, so we
stop hurting this poor word “frontrunner” so much! Here are some
rules, from Mark Blumenthal:
1. “First, to be a frontrunner
you need to at least have a real
lead, which means statistical significance in some form. But again
that’s the easy part.”
2. “Second, we really need a
different term to distinguish the
true, dominant, likely-to-win
frontrunner from a candidate
that enjoys an early lead that’s
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IN ANGST
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We really need a different
term to distinguish the true,
dominant, likely-to-win
frontrunner from a candidate
that enjoys an early lead that’s
quite possibly temporary.”
quite possibly temporary.”
My advice is to consider using
terms like “ahead of the pack” or
“so hot right now” or “I get sprung
when I think of [NAME OF CANDIDATE],” and let the truly dominant candidates take “frontrunner.”
Because, honey, you do not want
to have headlines like, “Newt Gingrich, frontrunner” on
your record. Oof.
Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-Fl.),
another 2016
“frontrunner.”