 All of those things aside, there is still one indisputable fact, and that is that you cannot implement policy if you do not win. At the moment, you've got about 5% of the vote, according to the latest Crosscut PBS Elway poll. If you break that down to likely voters, it's even less at 3%, and among base Republicans, it's only 8%. That's not anywhere close to being able to advance out of the state's top two primary, much less win in a general election in a very deep blue state.