Posted on 11/22/2015 2:50:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
For all of the candidates, all of the debates and all of the unpredictability, the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 has taken a clear shape over the past month or so.
There is a four-candidate top tier that has separated itself from the rest of the pack. There is then a trio of “if/then†candidates who would need a major mistake or collapse from one of the top four to have a realistic chance at winning. Everyone else running has a puncher’s chance — at best — at being relevant in the nomination fight.
Below are my rankings of the candidates who can still make a plausible case for being the nominee. (By plausible, I mean that someone who is not directly related to them could listen to the case and not laugh out loud.) The No. 1 ranked candidate is the most likely to be the GOP nominee.
7. Chris Christie: The New Jersey governor has (finally) moved beyond Bridgegate, allowing his natural candidate skills to shine through. He has focused heavily on New Hampshire throughout the campaign, a smart move given that Iowa’s caucuses have been less than predictive in the past two Republican presidential nomination fights. Christie still needs a stumble or two by the establishment types in front of him but he has fought his way back to respectability....
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Is it possible for us to run a members-only poll, safe from random trolls and DUmmies?
Ted Cruz is picking up steam and steady as she goes captain.
Hey, I keep seeing graphics of the next president showing him as number 46. But Obama is 44th. Is this some sort of in joke about an inevitable impeachment? Or are people just not counting the same way?
Just think RUBIO, member in good standing of the GANG OF 8.
Rubio just needs to go away and be McSWINES butt boy.
I suppose so. *sigh*
Great post!
Oh I ALWAYS do think of him that way, whenever I see or hear his name.
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