Monday, October 5, 2015

How Things Look Today

Political Scientist Jonathan Bernstein is out with a new ranking of GOP candidates for president:

First Tier: Jeb! Bush and Marco Rubio
Second Tier: John Kasich
Third Tier: Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie and Rick Santorum

What about the others? No chance:

Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and five other candidates remain, [Cruz, R. Paul, Pataki, Graham and Gilmore] but they either fail to have conventional credentials for the job or don't hold a sufficient number of orthodox Republican positions. Or too many people just plain dislike them. Could one of them win? Only if I'm reading the evidence wrong. Or if what political scientists think they know about nominations is wrong. And so far, I see no sign of that.

Bernstein says Bobby Jindal might be the next candidate to drop out; read the article here

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