Opinion | Liz Plank: Klobuchar drops out, Warren's 2020 chances dim and 'electability' rears its ugly head again. - NBCNewsTHINK
“Once you’re in love with this person, you’re in love with her forever,” Wilfred Boucher, a Klobuchar supporter in his early 80s told me as he came out of a small polling station in Manchester, New Hampshire, in February. “Once in love with Amy, always in love with Amy,” he sang, serenading me with the words to Frank Sinatra’s 1948 song “Once In Love With Amy.”“I like her style,” Boucher said. “She doesn’t say grandiose stuff. She just says ‘I got your back,’ so to speak.
But can she win? Boucher, a disabled veteran who served in the military for 34 years , laughed when I asked him that particular million-dollar question. “That’s baloney,” he scoffed. “In the military they were the best in sharp shooting," he said of women."They have a steady finger.”, his Bernie Bros. But Klobuchar had her own diehard male fans — Klobros? Klobubros? Although women would be forgiven for assuming, especially after 2016, that men are generally more reluctant to support female candidates, the gender ratio I witnessed at Klobuchar’s events told a different story, at least earlier this year.
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