Bye, Bye, Bobby!

Wednesday morning update: The Fix blog has a couple of fun graphs this morning. First, Jindal's polling compared with The Donald's:



I like this chart too, which tracks the start and (future) end dates of both the D and the R campaigns:




Original Post:


I think I got campaign overload there for a while, when I had to step back a bit from closely following everything that happens in the race for president. Today, however, another Republican candidate dropped out of the race and that was enough to bring me back to the blog. Bobby Jindal, currently the (term-limited) governor of Louisiana never got much traction and didn't even get to debate with the big guys on the main stage. His fund-raising was disappointing and his poll numbers were in the cellar, so today he packed it in, saying "I've come to the realization this is not my time." This leaves us with 14 declared candidates; who do you suppose will drop out next? I've updated my lists: 

Declared (and still in the race) GOP Candidates, in order of their official announcement

1. Ted Cruz (March 23) 
2. Rand Paul (April 7)
3. Marco Rubio (April 14)
4. Dr. Ben Carson (May 3) 
5. Carly Fiorina (May 4) 
6. Mike Huckabee (May 5) 
7. Rick Santorum (May 27)
8. George Pataki (May 28)
9. Lindsey Graham (June 1) 
10. Jeb Bush (June 15)
11. Donald Trump (June 16) 
12. Chris Christie (June 30)
13. John Kasich (July 21) 
14. Jim Gilmore (July 30) 

Officially Not Running
Rob Portman (Dec 2)
Paul Ryan (Jan 12)
Mitt Romney (Jan 30)
Rick Snyder (May 7)
John Bolton (May 14) 

Mike Pence (May 20) 

Bob Ehrlich (August 4)

You're Fired!: Candidates Who Have Dropped Out
Rick Perry (June 4 - Sept. 11)
Scott Walker (July 13 - Sept. 21)
Bobby Jindal (June 24 - November 17)

Days until Election Day: 356

Note that we're inside a year. Election Day 2016 is Tuesday, Nov. 8.