Does this portend the end of DJT-mania?
Rubio is the GOPe go-to guy now. He was the big winner. The other guys (Jeb included) will be starved of money. It’ll all go to Rubio.
Cruz and Trump will knock each other. Rubio will move up.
Rubio will be the ‘guy that can win’ - like Romney was...and McCain was. He will be the guy that comes through after Trump and Cruz kill each other.
Fox News seems to like him.
man I like Ted but yesterday was Quite Close to some predicted polls.
at least not far enough to think the 22 points in NH is going to be lost by the Donald.
but Trump people should stop rooting so much for ted to come in third because they might be shocked when trump comes in second.
the media and establishment will not let go of power so easily.
He looked like a 12 yr old boy up there last night.
One word comes to mind whenever i see Rubio on Television - WEASEL
I had a strange thought about the left, Democrats know that Hillary & Bernie have no chance with all the baggage of the past 8 years of Obama against the outsider candidates. I think Democrats crossed over to vote for Rubio. They voted for the least harmful Republican to keep the political elite status quo in power. Rubio is that political elite class candidate. Rubio is woefully unprepared to be President and can not stand up against stronger politicians. He rates with Ryan, McConnell, Boehner et al as a Rino. Democrats also know that Conservatives won’t hold their nose this time and vote for Rubio. So there would be a chance for Hillary if the fix is in for her to be the nominee.
This is an ominous development. While conservatives are in a virtual civil war between Cruz and Trump I see the GOPe at last coalescing around one candidate.
Interesting that the 3rd place guy is being touted as the big winner and the 1st and 2nd place guys losers. It’s gonna be all Rubio all the time on the “news” outlets.
in the last three days I received over a dozen emails from Rubio’s people. No campaign was as active as Rubio’s in the last week. They went balls to the wall.
Rubio-mania.
FoxNews is rabid with it this morning. They hardly mention most of the others, but it is Rubio Rubio Rubio.
One commentator did sort of put FoxNews in its place. He said basically that Rubio finished 3rd. Finishing 3rd does not get one to the Oval Office.
{slap! take that, FoxNews}
My BIGGEST FEAR may come true-— the conservative vote is confused & split and a PHONY CONSERVATIVE AMNESTY & OPEN BORDERS PIMP gets in...and that would be RUBIO (pride of the GOPe RINO establishment)!
And being arrested in Miami in a parked car after hours really energizes me to want to pull that lever for Rubio.
Why did Rubio only win 5 of the largest counties with the most votes: Dallas, Johnson, Polk, Scott, Story? He was mostly third or lower across the rest of the state. Is the establishment fix in? Why didn’t Cruz’s get out the vote effort work in these areas? Are there demographics in these areas that lean towards Rubio? What does extrapolating this very limited data tell us about Rubio’s results in other states? Voting info from https://www.iagopcaucuses.com/#/state
Articles like this remind me that pundits are paid to throw words around - not necessarily to think.
The plan is Trump, Cruz and Carson split the conservative vote, Rubio slides in to office.
Rubio a two faced POS.
Flavor of the month. *shrug* I would say it will pass but I’ve said from the beginning that the GOPe will find a way to get it’s puppet nominated. I thought that would be Bush. It now appears that is Rubio.
I wouldn’t worry much about it except that the serious threats to him are only Trump and Cruz who are both unelectable disasters.
We, and our Republic, are in DEEP trouble.
This analysis is nonsense.
IA has traditionally picked the most evangelical candidate, it did so again... Rubio tried his best to turn himself into Jesus in the last weeks.... so he got a good chunk.
Trump was ALWAYS a long shot in IA, had he won, the race was over... because the Caucus format is designed to support the traditional/establishment type of candidates over the outsiders.
NH is the first test IMHO of Trump’s ability to get votes. The traditional private voting booth will show if Trump’s backers are engaged or not. Rubio’s strong showing is disturbing, it shows teh GOPe voter doesn’t give a damn about illegal immigration.