Fundraising numbers. Others dropping out would count as progress too I guess. Although polling is still in single digit but 5-6% is certainly progress from 2-3%.
Fundraising is just a means to get money to spend (often, ineffectively) building/maintaining support. If you are raising and spending more money and not moving the needle in the polls, that's not progress.
> Others dropping out would count as progress too I guess.
No, if the field is narrowing and you aren't getting any of the support (and your remaining competitors are) that's also the opposite of progress.
> Although polling is still in single digit but 5-6% is certainly progress from 2-3%.
It would be, if he was consistently polling at the former and previously polling at the latter. But that's not what's happened to Yang. His national polling in January has ranged from 2-5%. His national polling in December ranged from 2-5%. His national polling in November ranged from 2-5%. His national polling in October ranged from 2-5%. And the margin of error on most of the polls is in the neighborhood of ±5%.
Fundraising is just a means to get money to spend (often, ineffectively) building/maintaining support. If you are raising and spending more money and not moving the needle in the polls, that's not progress.
> Others dropping out would count as progress too I guess.
No, if the field is narrowing and you aren't getting any of the support (and your remaining competitors are) that's also the opposite of progress.
> Although polling is still in single digit but 5-6% is certainly progress from 2-3%.
It would be, if he was consistently polling at the former and previously polling at the latter. But that's not what's happened to Yang. His national polling in January has ranged from 2-5%. His national polling in December ranged from 2-5%. His national polling in November ranged from 2-5%. His national polling in October ranged from 2-5%. And the margin of error on most of the polls is in the neighborhood of ±5%.