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 Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:36 am Post subject: Marco Rubio is a Paper Tiger |
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Rubio trails Trump by double digits in Florida
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This result would be utterly devastating both to Rubio's campaign and to the Republican Party's chances of stopping Trump. Not only would Rubio be symbolically humiliated by losing his home state, but Trump would pick up a massive delegate haul, since Florida allots all its 99 delegates to whoever comes in first place.
Overall, it's very difficult to see how Rubio can win the nomination if he loses Florida. |
The worst part about this is that if you add Rubio's 28% to Cruz's 12% there, you are still outside of the margin of error from Trump's 44% support.
This is the Republican establishment's New Hope! |
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yodanole
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Location: La Florida
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bucheon bum
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| Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think Trump would be that stupid in choosing Scott as his running mate. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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Rubio acquitted himself well in the last debate.
Rubio sends Trump into repeat mode
Respect to Rubio. It takes both grit and panache to turn around one's own worst moment on a rival, much less Donald Trump.
Rubio's new refrain is that the Donald is a con artist, but as Matt Taibbi explains, the Donald is way above average as a con man. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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Marco Rubio won Minnesota. Should I change the thread title?
For one state out of more than a dozen? Nah. |
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Swartz
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Brooks
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 3:35 am Post subject: |
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Rubio is a friend of the Tea Party.
If this is the establishment, time for Trump to destroy the GOP. |
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The Cosmic Hum
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yodanole
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In D.C., the establishment candidates squared off. Rubio narrowly won out over Kasich.
Notably, D.C. allows its delegates autonomy if no single candidate achieves a certain majority of delegates at the National Convention. So, ironically, if Rubio and Kasich are able to achieve their goal of pushing the convention into a brokered convention, their D.C. delegates could defect.
Right now, there is a hidden battle to select delegates who will be loyal. More sophisticated organizations will have an advantage in this struggle. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:22 am Post subject: |
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Doom Looms for Rubio
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| [T]he cold hard math of the polls will [very likely] come to bear. The surveys vary wildly, showing Donald Trump with anywhere from a 5- to a 23-percentage-point lead. But they all share one common trait: A Rubio loss. And they’ve been that way since August. |
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Leon
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Rubio is not even a paper tiger anymore, rip. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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Rubio suspended his campaign.
Inside Marco Rubio's Shoe-String Budget Campaign
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The campaign wouldn’t announce supporters in Iowa’s various regions until January 2016 and only then under intensifying pressure from allies. And when they announced their “field offices,” they wouldn’t say exactly where they actually were, making it all but impossible for volunteers to volunteer.
It’s not that Rubio’s team didn’t know the data science that powered Obama’s two campaigns or that studies showed door knocks and personal phone calls are among the most effective means to get-out-the-vote. It’s that they’re expensive and time-consuming. And Rubio’s team thought they had figured out a better way: targeting exactly their voters with pinpoint precision online, on TV, and in the mail.
“It’s almost like they wanted to prove they could win without doing some of the stuff people have to do to win,” said one Rubio supporter very familiar with the campaign’s planning. “Were they just [expletive] lazy or arrogant?”
In fact, they had designed a campaign to fit neatly with Rubio’s own conception of himself as master political communicator.
“Marco is convinced, and perhaps rightly so, that he has the skills to convince anyone,” said Dan Gelber, who served for eight years in the Florida Legislature with Rubio, including two as the Democratic counterpart when Rubio was GOP speaker. “He really believes that if you give him an audience, he can turn them to his way of thinking.”
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Sullivan put it most succinctly to The New York Times in December: “More people in Iowa see Marco on ‘Fox and Friends’ than see Marco when he is in Iowa.”
The ground-free strategy surprised Democrats and even some of Rubio’s rivals.
“This isn’t even a question in the mind of anyone who’s worked on presidential campaigns,” Dan Pfieffer, a former senior adviser to President Obama, told POLITICO earlier this year. “You have to build an extensive and aggressive ground operation to win.”
“The weirdest thing is that we’re debating this,” Pfieffer added.
Ted Cruz had invested more in ground operations than any other Republican and his campaign manager Jeff Roe told POLITICO he was surprised how little ground troops any of his opponents were mobilizing.
"It’s a huge investment, it’s a huge investment of resources when a lot of people might not know how many resources they have, so I understand why they don’t do it,” Roe said. But there’s an advantage: "The ground game just never goes away."
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Marco Rubio would have been the most beholden nominee, perhaps ever. Thank you, Trump.
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No presidential candidate fighting for their party’s nomination has ever benefited from as much undisclosed cash, and watchdogs worry the pro-Rubio group’s unchecked activity serves as a dangerous precedent that will soon become common practice.
“It is now the model for a how a candidate can inject unlimited, secret, corrupting money into their campaigns to benefit their election,” said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a campaign watchdog group. “That is precisely the kind of model that we do not need in America.” |
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/marco-rubio-secret-money-legacy-221218#ixzz44FlhFcSn |
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