Posted on 12/23/2015 9:44:04 AM PST by jimbo123
One take on new polls from New Hampshire, Florida and South Carolina is that "The crowded GOP field is harming Marco Rubio and helping Donald Trump." Well, sort of.
The crowded field is not going to be crowded for very long, and it is Rubio (or New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is surging in New Hampshire) who stands to gain the most when others drop out. Donald Trump - with 100 percent name recognition and high unfavorables - is about topped out. No one who likes Trump is not with him now. As for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), he is pilfering votes from Trump (tied in South Carolina at 27 percent, behind by 8 in New Hampshire and 11 in Florida). However, he too has a limited upside as the candidate, increasingly, of the shrill, anti-establishment, anti-immigration throng. It is Rubio, in this analysis, who has room to expand his reach.
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Yep, you gotta love the “topped out/he’s peaked” meme.
Meanwhile Rubio has consistently slipped downward for over 2 weeks, and Jeb has almost disappeared. Christie has moved from virtually zero to barely visible while Cruz has more than doubled his support.
Schlong the GOPe!
You are dead on, friend. Lib states are going to vote for lib Republicans. We need to get those states out of the way and get down to choosing out nominee!
When journalists read each other it turns some sort of circle jerk that reinforces their own beliefs until they are distorted beyond all reality.
BINGO - - "It's not news 'til the New York Times says it's news..." That's where it starts - then it filters down to local papers then to TV "journalists' etc. You 'get' the system doxteve... and it's toxic.
Jennifer Rubin again? Yuck
Googled image searched the name, some of the pics were attractive and I was like “huh?”. Turns out there’s an actress/model with the same name.
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