Jeb Bush’s Campaign Is Pre-Emptively Warning of Dark Polling Days Ahead

[brooklynite]

Source: Slate

Pundits saw a host of potential winners in last week’s Republican debate: Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and—in their own unique ways—Ben Carson and Donald Trump, among them. The consensus, though, was not about who won, but who lost: Jeb Bush, the onetime GOP front-runner who was judged to have been so bad on stage that conservatives and liberals alike saw the beginning of the end of his campaign.

And so as Jeb! tries to reboot his campaign for the fifth time, his staff is urging patience, but also indicating that things might get a lot worse before they get better for the Bush campaign:

Tim Miller @Timodc
FYI political press corps. Jeb's going to have a few weeks of bad polls. Comebacks take time, we recognize and are prepared for that.
3:21 PM - 2 Nov 2015

The fact that Bush’s communication director felt the need to launch a pre-emptive warning is a pretty good sign that his campaign’s internal polling numbers paint a pretty dark picture for what’s to come. We’ll have to wait a bit longer for the first full post-debate national surveys to see what the numbers say about a man who began the year as the de facto favorite for his party’s nomination.


Read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/11/03/jeb_bush_s_is_preparing_for_really_bad_polling_news.html

[sufrommich]

1. Their internal polling must be pretty brutal. nt

[forest444]

2. It's ok though: Jeb can fix it!

Like he did in Florida in 2000.

[trusty elf]

6. ...

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[forest444]

8. Of course, he did a much better job fixing Dubya's 2000 campaign.

And a simply stellar job fixing things for Miguel Recarey, perpetrator of the biggest Medicare fraud scandal until Rick Scott's a decade later.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/20/jeb-bush-miguel-recarey_n_6707156.html

See? Jeb can fix it!

[Gregorian]

13. Haha By association, that gives raccoons a bad name.

Racoon lives matter.

[SunSeeker]

18. LOL!

[rurallib]

3. he's behind the freaking crazy Bobby Jindal

Does he have the joke Rick Santorum in his sights?

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Prediction: Jeb will "suspend" his campaign before Christmas

A better Christmas present for America would be for the GOP to disband. Don't worry about the two party system. The Democratic Party is already a two party system.

[vinny9698]

5. Jesus, give it up already.

But having sugar daddies is the key to the GOP politicians. The real GOP primary, the donor primary.

[mainstreetonce]

7. I'd love to see

Jeb at the kiddie table next debate

[Jack Rabbit]

9. The Frat Boy's kid brother at the kiddie table . . .

Well, I guess that sums up the BFEE.

[houston16revival]

10. Jeb! can fix elections

He'll just hang around until the rest of the field is institutionalized

then he'll surface and emerge as the GOP savior

I think it's all planned that way

Everyone knows Trump will fizz out

[Darb]

11. If Jeb gives up, we will witness the biggest clusterfuck of all time.

I mean really, who that will be left has what it takes (money, leadership, temperament, support, intelligence) to lead a campaign to victory? It is a tough business and those guys are fucking idiots, hacks and lunatics.

This could be a huge win for the Democrats.

[sufrommich]

15. Rubio. I think there's already a migration of donors

moving from Jeb to Rubio.

[geek tragedy]

17. Rubio is the consensus "not batshit insane" candidate nt

[Gregorian]

12. My heart wants to feel sad, but my head won't forget 2000.

[restorefreedom]

14. i never liked his entitled attitude

he seemed to think he should just have it because bush

and now he is acting like a spoiled brat

good enough can't wait until he makes it official

[hibbing]

16. He'll be the comeback kid

I still can't believe the 1% would allow any of these other batshit crazy idiots to get the nomination. I still think he will have a miraculous comeback. I see Trump flaming out at some point, and the good Dr., well, he's nuts.


Peace