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The upside of the mainstream Republican
Washington Post ^ | 12/23/15 | Jennifer Rubin

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gope; gopestablishment; jenniferrubin; rinos; rubio; trump
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1 posted on 12/23/2015 9:44:04 AM PST by jimbo123
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Another BS article from Jennifer. Her credibility is in the minus category.


2 posted on 12/23/2015 9:45:16 AM PST by Parley Baer
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AAAAAAHHHHHH.

3 posted on 12/23/2015 9:47:03 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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Hasn’t Rubin been schlonged yet? If not, please make it an action item.


4 posted on 12/23/2015 9:47:42 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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Is that photo really Jennifer or an aging Marilyn Manson?


5 posted on 12/23/2015 9:50:43 AM PST by pookie18 (11 months until the general election...)
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha...my side is splitting.


6 posted on 12/23/2015 9:54:41 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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“Hasn’t Rubin been schlonged yet? If not, please make it an action item.”

I love it. Bwahahahahahahahaha


7 posted on 12/23/2015 9:55:02 AM PST by Parley Baer
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translation: Orders have come down from K Street. Everybody but Rubio, out of the pool, NOW!!!


8 posted on 12/23/2015 9:55:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Jennifer is very stale with her incessant pro-Jeb propaganda. I bet even she is tired of it, and it’s destroyed any credibility she may have achieved as a commentator. It must pay really well , tho Perhaps she’s getting a good chunk of that $100 million Jeb’s wasted on his “campaign?”


9 posted on 12/23/2015 9:56:36 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the D's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant))
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Obviously getting schlonged and oblivious to the web cam.

or maybe not so oblivious...hmmm

10 posted on 12/23/2015 9:57:02 AM PST by SGCOS
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She’s going Pro- Rubio . Ok. i get it. ( Thanks and Merry Christmas!) — she’s not worth reading either way she goes


12 posted on 12/23/2015 9:59:25 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the D's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant))
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Holy carp! I thought I’d accidentally opened a “Walking Dead” spoiler thread.


13 posted on 12/23/2015 10:04:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The biggest liars in the liberal media have started referring to themselves as fact checkers. Sad.)
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Is that photo really Jennifer or an aging Marilyn Manson?

Marilyn Manson does a much better job on makeup.

14 posted on 12/23/2015 10:11:38 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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Why do alleged people like this have positions in the media?

More importantly, what can be done about it?


15 posted on 12/23/2015 10:14:09 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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“It is Rubio, in this analysis, who has room to expand his reach.”

More nonsense. If Trump or Cruz will have trouble picking up more moderate Republicans, Rubio and Christie will have even worse trouble picking up ANY conservative Republicans. That’s a moot point, of course, because neither Rubio nor Christie have any chance of winning the nomination, so they will never have an opportunity to pick up conservative votes once others drop out.


16 posted on 12/23/2015 10:16:37 AM PST by Boogieman
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No one knows for certain, but I believe Trump has NOT topped out.

Many, many people are influenced by what is socially acceptable. We are still early enough where many folks have to determine whether they are socially permitted to support Trump.

At some point, supporting Trump will be the cool and fashionable thing to do. Then comes the landslide among all demographics except constipated marxists and Bill Kristol.


17 posted on 12/23/2015 10:16:47 AM PST by Gratia
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“Is that photo really Jennifer or an aging Marilyn Manson?”

or even aging Charles?


18 posted on 12/23/2015 10:17:02 AM PST by Beagle8U (jeb! continues to not only step in it, but lie down and roll in it! - freedumb2003)
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19 posted on 12/23/2015 10:23:56 AM PST by papertyger (-/\/\/\-)
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“Donald Trump - with 100 percent name recognition and high unfavorables - is about topped out.”

He topped out at 10, 12, 15, 20, 22, 28, 30....but this time, this time they are SURE he’s topped out.

Hysterical.


20 posted on 12/23/2015 10:32:10 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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