Not a good decision, in my opinion. Even if Wslker comes in third, it would benefit him.
I don’t think either Bush or Rubio is going to be the final candidate. They’re native sons here in Florida, so in a sense, you can almost discount the votes for them. But whoever comes in next after them will be very important.
The only candidate popular here in the last round was Newt Gingrich, but Mitt Romney (supported by Rush Limbaugh, who didn’t like Gingrich because he’d been divorced several times and had made money as an independent speaker ... er, unlike Rush, right????) stomped him into the ground with an ad barrage that you wouldn’t believe. The Gingrich campaign really wasn’t prepared for this, since the Romney “ad barrage” also included hiring people to go around ripping up Gingrich yard signs, which were very hard to get.
You’d have thought all of Florida loved Romney, but he was not popular here - however, what his campaign manager did was make it look as if he was enormously popular, and many people will then either vote for that candidate or not vote at all. And that’s what happened here.
So I think people like Walker and even Fiorina should at least try to keep a presence in Florida. If they can’t afford ads, they should distribute yard signs.
.......you can almost discount the votes for them (Bush & Rubio). But whoever comes in next after them will be very important.
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You, I and all the other political junkies, would see it that way. But, it is a WINNER-TAKE-ALL state and 95% of the American voters would not rationalize it like you have done.