Who are they polling? I follow politics and can’t find a single outlet rooting for Bush.
I remember hearing that about Romney. Not disagreeing with you; just saying, we may be headed for another dose of castor oil. The GOP knows whats good for us. Open wide!
Ditto - I don’t know one person who would vote for Bush, and that includes ME! I think it’s the Bush name, but, Lord have mercy - no more Bushes or Clintons.
Pauline Kael, a NY Times arts critic is most famous for having this same view of Nixon's victory.
From Wikipedia:
Kael has often been quoted as having said, in the wake of Richard Nixon's landslide victory in the 1972 presidential election, that she "couldn't believe Nixon had won", since no one she knew had voted for him.[45] The quote is sometimes cited by conservatives (such as Bernard Goldberg, in his book Bias) as an example of cluelessness and insularity among the liberal elite. There are variations as to the exact wording, the speaker (it has variously been attributed to other liberal female writers, including Katharine Graham, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion),[46][47] and the timing (in addition to Nixon's victory, it has been claimed to have been uttered after Ronald Reagan's re-election in 1984).[48]The story most likely originated in a December 28, 1972 New York Times article on a lecture Kael gave at the Modern Language Association, in which the newspaper quoted her as saying, "I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them."[49]
Any polling now isn’t accurate, and besides they will always lean toward the political position of those conducting it.
Media and others want to see Jeb always in the top three positions....they know he has no chance against Hillary and why the GOP picked him.
Not to play devil’s advocate, but you’ll probably have to look at sources all around the country, including polling (which is mostly likely BS anyway).
It’s name recognition. 10% of the people go with the name they recognize. Now that Trump’s in the race, he gets 10% as well, driving down Walker’s and Rubio’s numbers. Bush and Carson weren’t affected as much, so now Ben Carson is number 2. But will that last?