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FWIW, I do think Beto would have been better off declaring sooner (in January or even December). *And* I think he hasn't used the intervening time well. But as I've thought about it more (and done a little bit of talking to people) I'm less convinced it's a huge problem.
Most of the action so far has been in the leftmost half of the field from candidates on the coasts. But there's another group that's more moderate, usually Midwestern or Southern, who will heavily emphasize retail politics (i.e. Iowa). Not many in the race from that group yet.
There's also this weird thing where for years, there were too few left-wing voices in media and moderate/centrist Democratic perspectives were grossly overrepresented. Now maybe we've come full circle where media coverage tends to underestimate the number of moderate Democrats.
