Posted on 09/24/2015 3:55:26 PM PDT by jimbo123
It's not really news anymore when a poll finds former Florida Governor Jeb Bush far below "frontrunner" status. The best-funded of the Republican establishment candidates has struggled for months, and never achieved the sort of advantage that Mitt Romney, John McCain, or George W. Bush did in the years before they became the party's nominee.
Still, the new WMUR/CNN poll out of New Hampshire -- which has Jeb Bush tied for 5th place with John Kasich, well in back of Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina, and just behind Ben Carson and Marco Rubio -- suggests that the months of weak numbers have created a voter impression that badly undercuts Bush. In July, the last time this poll was conducted, Bush pulled 16 percent of the state's Republican voters. More than twice as many, 37 percent, nonetheless said that Bush had "the best chance of winning in the general election next November."
In today's poll, Bush has fallen to 7 percent in a ballot test. He's fallen even further on the "best chance of winning" measure. Now, only 16 percent of voters say he's their most electable Republican, while 27 percent say that of Trump.
You could spin this all sorts of ways. None of the remaining candidates -- no, not even Jim Gilmore -- crack into double digits on the electability question. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has told countless crowds that his message of a broader, more diverse, less law-and-order crazed GOP can win, and his reward is only 2 percent of Republicans calling him their most electable candidate.
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I’d vote for Jed or Barnaby Jones!
And, after all that he still looks like Winnie the Pooh.
He’s got my vote! I know he’s 110% 2nd Amendment.
” Your failure to support your own GOP grassroots, who so deeply, deeply desire that we NOT grant amnesty to illegal aliens is your biggest undoing.”
Jeb took the amnesty side because in the end he has to live and sleep with his wife, not the GOP grassroots.
Graham isn’t even a factor in his own state.
53% unfavorable in NH? Worst of all the Republicans? LOL. They hate this guts.
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