Marco Rubio Is Not “Surging in the Polls,” Shows No Signs of Actual Momentum

Slate ^ | October 9, 2015 | Josh Voorhees

[2ndDivisionVet]

Following a second strong, if understated, debate performance late last month, Marco Rubio is currently riding a wave of positive press. He is “surging in the polls,” has “the hot hand,” and is even emerging as “the favorite to win the GOP presidential nomination.”

With the summer of Trump coming to a close, it seems, we are at the cusp of a new stage of the campaign where the non-silly-season favorites begin to assert themselves and the race finally gets serious. And there is good reason why that means Rubio’s stock is on the rise: With Scott Walker out and Jeb Bush giving his own backers serious heartburn, Rubio is the only member of the GOP establishment’s former Big Three who appears to be heading in the right direction. As New York magazine’s Benjamin Wallace-Wells correctly put it Friday, "it is startling how well the race has gone for Rubio so far." If not Marco, the logic goes, then who?

The thing is: The race hasn’t gone that well for Rubio. Personally, I’m largely on board with this Rubio-will-win-by-default line of thinking. But it’s worth noting given the current hype cycle that, to date, he has yet to translate the buzz into anything tangible. Put simply, there just isn’t a whole lot of concrete evidence to suggest that Marco’s current “momentum” is much more than the product of the wishful thinking of a nervous Republican Party and the predictions of a bored political press corp....

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[moehoward]

“He trusted Schumer “—

We was led astray?

[rrrod]

The left really wants this guy out....why? he is 4 or 5th place. Doesnt make sense.

[spokeshave]

But it’s worth noting given the current hype cycle that, to date, he has yet to translate the buzz into anything tangible.

Here is a Trumpism:

"The only buzz generated by Rubio is that of the flies surrounding a putrid campaign"