[InterceptPoint]

If you are not in the top 6 in the current RCP poll you are not going to be President. Personally, I'n not ready to count any of these candidates out. OTOH, a couple of more polls and Cruz is going to slip to 6th - overtaken by Rubio already and Fiorina soon. This is, of course, due to the perceived debate performance which will fade some with time. We will see how that goes.

If push came to shove I would, however, scratch Carson and Fiorina.

Here is the current RCP rank:

Trump
Carson
Bush
Rubio
Cruz
Fiorina

[Liz]

Wall Street continues to support the Clintons and the buck-raking Clinton Foundation. Goldman Sachs has given through their own foundations — and made new contributions. Yet, the "champion of the middle class continues her phony jihad against Wall Street.....Hillary is calling for prosecuting executives and companies for financial crimes.

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REALITY CHECK---The Hillary-Goldman Sachs connection.

ITEMThen-US Sens Clinton and Corzine. Corzine was fresh out of Goldman Sachs executive suite, buying his NJ Senate seat office for $65 million; then buying the NJ governorship. Out of office, Corzine ran a hedge fund where $1.5 B went missing.

ITEM Chelsea's husband runs a hedge fund that is propped-up by Goldman Sachs---and gained access to bigtime Wall Street investors w/ ties to the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation. Back in 2011, Mezvinsky, now 37, and two former Goldman Sachs colleagues — Bennett Grau and Mark Mallon — began raising money for Mezvinsky's Eaglevale Partners LP hedge fund.

ITEM Mezvinsky's investors include Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Blankfein, a slavish Democrat supporter, said he had "always been a fan of Hillary Clinton."

ITEMThe WSJ reports extensively on Eaglevale's underperformance since its inception and Mezvinsky's mediocre investing and strategizing.

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ITEMChelsea and hubby Marc Mezvinsky's $10 million condo
w/ pricey furnishings, and monthly upkeep in the stratosphere...
propped up w/ CGI income...and Goldman Sachs.

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SOURCE: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/here-s-where-carly-fiorina-gets-her-campaign-money-141956879.html

Carly Fiorina at the Clinton Foundation’s 2014 event in Denver
w/ ex-Pres Bill Clinton and then-MTP host David Gregory.

Wall Street funded 2010 Fiorina: In addition to hedge funds and non-bank investing firms, traditional banks, including Morgan Stanley, Societe General, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo were among Fiorina’s top 20 donors in her 2010 Cali race. The contributions came from individuals at those banks—not from the corporate entities—with about one-third of the donors residing in the New York City area, even though Fiorina was running in California.

[dforest]

Cruz doesn’t rise a lot because he isn’t a good candidate.

He has the conservative creds, but he is unable to bring people in.

The choir adores him, but he isn’t a street preacher that can go out and add to the flock.

I posted about this on a thread yesterday.

He needs to suspend being a Senator for awhile. He needs to forget trying to score points by using his Senator status because nobody will pay attention. He needs to be more aggressive in a debate for time and he needs to focus on big issues that people want to keep the country from falling into Hillary’s hands.

Ted is an orator with all the pause and flourish, but there isn’t enough time for that. He needs to get to the point quick when he gets the chance. When he gets the chance he needs to stop talking about his record and SCOTUS cases.

There is a reason people pass him over. It isn’t his conservatism, it is mostly style and personality. He has to talk with folks, not at them.

Hope nobody gets mad at me, but unless Ted changes things, he could never win in a general election.