The mob don't want nobody messin' with Boy Wonder, see?
Anybody who does will have me to deal with and they won't like it, see?"
Posted on 02/04/2016 7:46:38 AM PST by xzins
Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio on Thursday vaulted into second place in a daily tracking poll, but still trails front-runner Donald Trump by double-digits in the New Hampshire primary
Trump leads the GOP field with 36 percent support, according to the WHDH/UMass Lowell poll, followed by the Florida senator with 15 percent support, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) with 14 percent support, former Florida governor Jeb Bush with 8 percent support and Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 7 percent support.
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As well he should surge into second and I hope Carson is third.
I despise the sellout, but honestly, he has a potential situation in his homestate. They're saying all of the construction will be done before the convention, but the city is short by a lot the police needed. Kasich has to do some leadership (instead of his usual leadership of leading all state funds to deep-pocket donors), coordinate with Cleveland, and make sure things are in place for the convention.
If he hangs around on the convention trail much longer, I'm wondering if city and state coordination will be adequate.
Again, this poll has a 5% margin of error.
If Trump and Cruz keep taking the bait, we will have president Rubio.
The two Cubans duking it out. Should be interesting
Rubio will drop once Cruz and Trump expose his recent pro-illegal immigration interview in Spanish.
Yeah. In a small town, everybody knows everybody's business, but nobody does much about it. The thing about the shaming letter is it put people's names on mailings to other people. That crosses a line. Nobody can put stuff like that out without my permission.
[Krispy Kreme is at 5%...]
GOPe is for RUBIO all the way.
I hope that Rubio and Jeb destroy each other. Unfortunately, Trump and Cruz seem much better at it than the establishment candidates, who in the end will do what the RNC tells them to do and coalesce behind a perceived winner (i.e. they wanted Jeb, but Rubio will be fine too - both would be George W’s third term).
Pollsters sure like to use the word surge! Two or 3 points equals a surge. Asinine.
“Once again, it looks like Trump’s so-called childishness, this time about what Cruz did to possibly steal votes in Iowa, actually has substance and gravitas.”
No, it looks like Trump is a whining idiot! Cruz did not steal anything. Stealing is when you have fake ballots caste. Stealing is when you find a box of ballots in the garage, or you have 120% of the registered voters in a precinct voting.
Repeating a news story, and even putting your spin on it, is NOT cheating. Hell, lying about another candidate - something Trump does all the time (’Ben Carson is psychotic, like a child molester’) - is not out of bounds.
Where have you lived all your life?
Cruz and Trump are busy giving Rubio and Jeb their best shot at winning. They’ll be so deep in the mud that even Christie could pass them!
Jump ahead. We’ve picked our candidate, how do they stack up in appearance, standing beside Clinton, in debates, with undecided voters?
Rubio> Will look like a middle school kid telling his sweet old grandma teacher with years of experience she’s wrong.
Cruz> Will look like a lawyer giving a prolonged explanation of why the sweet old grandma’s life and work have not only been a waist of time but damaging to children.
Trump> Will look like a leader showing an old hag, that he can be just as mean and nasty as she can, and to get out of the way and let a real American run the place.
[Krispy Kreme is at 5%...]
GOPe is for RUBIO all the way.
Only with candidates they approve of. Rubio or Jeb going up 2-3 points is a "surge," Cruz or Trump being 20+ points ahead of where they were when they declared their candidacies aren't "surges."
A shame, really, IMO. I think Cruz really does have something to offer, if only as a strong candidate to influence toward policies of less government and things like a low flat tax. Then he mucks it up with this crap. Stupid, self-destructive, and destructive to what we’re all looking for.
Trump is like a laser beam sometimes to me and he doesn’t care what people say about him and so often when it’s all said an done, it turns out Trump was right and it was a meaningful issue he was dealing with.
Neither Trump nor Obama seem to care what people think of them. Obama’s disinterest in popularity has served him well these last seven years, howbeit to “fundamentally change America” into a socialist state. Trump’s basic fearless attitude can also serve him well to do just the opposite: make America great again.
These are fascinating times.
Thats probably a good analysis. Rubio would be more palatable if he were not a shamnesty guy.
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