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Why is Marco Rubio sliding in the polls?
Washington Examiner ^ | August 4, 2015 | Byron York

Posted on 08/05/2015 6:15:36 AM PDT by C19fan

The verdict was clear when Marco Rubio announced his presidential run with a well-received speech in Miami last April: There was a new member of the top tier in the Republican race. "The official 2016 GOP field gets its first real contender," wrote fivethirtyeight. "Marco Rubio is now a first-tier candidate," said Bloomberg's Mark Halperin. Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson placed Rubio, along with Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, in "the first tier of plausibility."

It got even better from there. In June, the Washington Post declared, "Marco Rubio is now at the top of the Republican presidential field."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; amnesty; illegals; potus; rubio
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To: C19fan

Because Rubio is a Rino, he talks a good talk but he is not a great communicator in the tradition of Reagan, he is a slick communicator in the tradition of Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, a charlatan, liar, and a traitor.


41 posted on 08/05/2015 7:04:38 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: raybbr

[Are there really enough retarded “republicans” out there supporting Jebbie to keep him this high in the polls?]

Establishment GOP legislators are having press releases to announce their candidate Jeb Bush. The Establishment GOP is propping him up.


42 posted on 08/05/2015 7:06:37 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: arthurus

Nicely done.


43 posted on 08/05/2015 7:07:53 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: stars & stripes forever

Rubio is whimpy on Immigration, a hot-button point, same as Bush. Only people still being polled saying Bush are just doing name-recognition responses.


44 posted on 08/05/2015 7:08:39 AM PDT by rstrahan
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To: C19fan

Marco who?


45 posted on 08/05/2015 7:08:58 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: C19fan

[There was a new member of the top tier in the Republican race. “The official 2016 GOP field gets its first real contender,” wrote fivethirtyeight. “Marco Rubio is now a first-tier candidate,” said Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin. Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson placed Rubio, along with Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, in “the first tier of plausibility.”

It got even better from there. In June, the Washington Post declared, “Marco Rubio is now at the top of the Republican presidential field.]

Notice, not a single one of the experts is at all conservative, all left of center.


46 posted on 08/05/2015 7:09:25 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: C19fan

5. Too young.
4. Too inexperienced.
3. Not a governor.
2. Running an ineffective campaign.
1. Supports amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.


47 posted on 08/05/2015 7:09:35 AM PDT by twister881
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To: C19fan

RRRRRRRRRRRRubio is pro=amnesty.

See what I did there? Rolled the R


48 posted on 08/05/2015 7:11:39 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Da Coyote
Exactly!

Those rags putting them into the "top tier" are all liberal rags!

Again, this is like various liberals telling conservatives what they "need to do to win," like Chuck Schumer, they really do want to see Conservatives winning - big!

49 posted on 08/05/2015 7:19:42 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Tennessee Nana

But Walker wants Rubio as a running mate!


50 posted on 08/05/2015 7:23:18 AM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: C19fan

If jebbie can’t survive the primaries, I think the GOPe team is Kasich/Rubio, given that both Ohio and Florida are critical states to any republican victory.


51 posted on 08/05/2015 7:29:39 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: C19fan
Why? The Serpent told him to eat of the Gang of Eight Ball of which we told him not to eat.


52 posted on 08/05/2015 7:34:08 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: C19fan

I believe the conservative electorate or those that identify themselves as such is growing and as it does, more people are becoming aware of just what the GOPe and the Liberals have in common.

It is a power structure that Marco seems to align himself with more and more. It sure seems that way to me.


53 posted on 08/05/2015 7:52:16 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: C19fan

When Marco ran for the Senate from Florida he led us to believe he was against amnesty.
It wasn’t long before it was apparent he was not being honest with regards his true intentions. That being amnesty and a path to citizenship for those who butted in line and came here ILLEGALLY.
I was fooled and voted for Marco. I will NOT be fooled again by this clown who fancies himself a top tier politician.
He lied. He can kiss my ass.


54 posted on 08/05/2015 7:58:00 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Tokyo Rubio

Tokyo Rose

Iva Ikuko Toguri D’Aquino (July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an American who participated in English-language propaganda broadcast transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied soldiers in the South Pacific during World War II.

Rubio is the American male Tokyo Rose


55 posted on 08/05/2015 8:10:56 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: C19fan
George Will wannabe Byron York (complete with bowtie and little round glasses) can't understand why one of the GOP's biggest RINOs isn't drawing more interest.

Well, duh. Rubio has revealed his RINOsity and the grassroots doesn't want anything to do with him.

56 posted on 08/05/2015 8:24:28 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)
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To: C19fan

‘Cause nobody trusts him?


57 posted on 08/05/2015 8:27:07 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Hojczyk

I agree, but it is not just Rubio. The Republican leadership in Congress lied to us—they said they would fight and then have not.

ANY Congressman/Senator/Representative or official Republican is tarnished by this.

Trump is taking numbers from all of those types, BUT even Cruz—which I think is wrong because he is the only one running who is fighting McConnell, well maybe Paul, too, but mostly Ted, and I wish more angry people would note this.

Still, Trump gets all the news and headlines, because he fights back and the Washington Elitist punditry class thinks he’s done for while the rest of us standup and clap.

That’s quite a difference of opinion, don’t you think?


58 posted on 08/05/2015 8:29:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: C19fan

Because he is pre-pubescent.


59 posted on 08/05/2015 9:24:21 AM PDT by AdaGray
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To: C19fan

It’s a tough world out there, and imagining that puppy Rubio trying to take it on is impossible. He’s got no charisma.


60 posted on 08/05/2015 9:24:44 AM PDT by MaggiesPitchfork
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