“Pretty glaring,” O’Connell says. “No one knows who he is, he’s from the Deep South, he’s got no major funding outside of his own personal wealth.”
Moreover, Roemer has been out of politics for close to two decades and has no real base, says Professor Davis, making his prospects fade fast.
“He’s not from a big state, he doesn’t have a calling card, he doesn’t have a natural constituency,” she says. “There’s nothing about him that’s particularly intriguing.... I can’t come up with any kind of scenario where he could do well.”
