Posted on 09/25/2015 6:16:12 PM PDT by Amntn
Donald Trump has a better shot at the presidency than Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)80% and is just as likely to win the 2016 election as Jeb Bush, say two embarrassed political scientists.
We know they’re embarrassed by their discovery because their Washington Post article buried that news far, far into their math-heavy, thumb-sucking, 20-paragraph, Sept. 25 perambulation.
In their article, the two academics first did some tricks with numbers, multiplied some percentages, added a few assumptions — and then subtracted their interesting conclusion from the lede.
Weird — why would they subtract their conclusion?
Because they concluded that Donald Trump “has a 54 percent chance of being elected president if he is the GOP nominee… [and] he is as electable as [Jeb] Bush and [John] Kasich and more electable than [Carly] Fiorina and [Marco] Rubio.”
Now that’s a conclusion worth putting in the lede, even though it assumes there will be no third-party candidate.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Ping!
Ping!
Got news for them. Of those listed, Trump is the ONLY electable candidate. Amnesty pimps and GOPe RINOs are unelectable!
¡Yeb! The Joyful Tortoise will never be President
I just checked the WP article and it is actually better news for Cruz!
An attempt to hide facts with common core math !
Cruz is my first choice,. but if Trump gets it I will enthusiastically support and proudly vote FOR him in the general. And it will be great to be able to actually vote FOR someone for a change.
Go, Cruz, GO!!
Go, Trump, GO!!
AMEN To That!
I'm sick and tired of "holding my nose" and voting for some RINO idiot!
It’s not the somebody himself (or herself) even, it’s what the somebody is carrying.
Jeb will be the GOP nominee right after I win the Fantasy Five. :-)
Agree.
I’m done with the GOPe. I will not vote for any of them.
Admitting a truth they don’t like is a ‘confession’.
Accurate and damning description of proggies.
¡Yeb! may still be the GOP nominee, but he won’t be President.
Do not underestimate how low the RNC will go to deliver the amnesty candidate that they owe to The Cheap Labor Express.
Interesting.
During Trump’s talk, at SC’s Tim Scott’s forum, Trump went over the support numbers he has with blacks, hispanics, etc...and, Scott stopped him and said, “That’s it!! It’s over! You’ve won!”....or, something to that effect.
I saw that.
Now he just needs to get them to vote in the primary.
Have you been following the posts at Conservative Treehouse?
The GOPe is pulling out all the stops.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/
So does that mean Trump has no chance? I know Bush sure doesn’t.
Professor gets it half correct. Humpty Jebty has cracked his exterior eggshell and not to be put together again.
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