Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush

[Lincoln Republican]

Jeb Bush would be a top contender and a serious candidate in a Presidential eletion, intelligent, well spoken, savvy.

[Lincoln Republican]

Jeb          304
Hillary      234

By 2016, America is suffering from Hillary overload, and are sick of it.

[Türkisblau]

Jeb          304
Hillary      234

By 2016, America is suffering from Hillary overload, and are sick of it.

I kind of get it but Oregon and Wisconsin? Really?

IMO, if there's going to be a Jeb win, it will very close. I just don't see the 2016 map as very favorable to Republicans at all.

Hildawg squeaks it out.

[IceSpear]

Jeb          304
Hillary      234

By 2016, America is suffering from Hillary overload, and are sick of it.

LOL at Oregon. The others are at least somewhat conceivable.

[bobloblaw]

If Jeb is the nominee, I hope he is humiliated. By that I mean he loses FL and does no better with hispanics than Romney did

[bobloblaw]

Hillary runs very poorly in CO

[ShadowRocket]

A 2012 repeat.  The most boring election ever.

I agree with this. I think Jeb is probably one of the stronger candidates the GOP could put forward, but I think Hillary vs. Jeb would prove to be an uninspired election. And the fact that he would be a pretty bland alternative allows Hillary to skate by. Perhaps because the Clintons are simply better regarded that the Bushes.

[IceSpear]

Hillary runs very poorly in CO

Jeb runs even more poorly in CO.

[badgate]

Jeb          304
Hillary      234

By 2016, America is suffering from Hillary overload, and are sick of it.

Good one!

[Devils30]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/fl/florida_bush_vs_clinton-3554.html

Jeb's problem summed up. The PPP polls are also midterm ones with 69% white electorate, it should be 63-64% or so in 2016.

[pbrower2a]

I imagine a map like this one could be likely in a Clinton vs. Bush matchup:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY)/Senator Mark Warner (D-VA): 320 Electoral Votes (52%)
Former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL)/Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL): 218 Electoral Votes (46%)
Others (Libertarian, Green, etc.) 0 Electoral Votes (2%)

Overall, the map is pretty similar to 2012, though Hillary Clinton is able to pick up North Carolina and Arizona and Jeb Bush is able to carry Colorado and Florida. In addition, Missouri and Georgia are also very close, but in the end, Jeb Bush carries both by a small margin.

As for their running-mate choices, I imagine that Jeb Bush would go with Jeff Sessions in order to reach out to very conservative voters and those who are reluctant to support him over his stance on immigration (as Jeff Sessions is one of the foremost advocates of a tougher immigration policy and is one of the closest Senate allies of Ted Cruz) while Hillary Clinton will probably go with Mark Warner, though his small re-election margin against Ed Gillespie might end up as a liability for the Clinton campaign.

Bush wouldn't lose AZ while winning CO and FL, and he certainly wouldn't select Sessions as his running mate.

The assumptions are that Colorado is swinging back to the right and that Jeb Bush would have a significant edge as a Favorite Son in a swing state while Arizona is ready to swing D due to demographics (McCain won Arizona by less than the usual Favorite Son effect in 2008).

The only relevance of Sessions as a VP nominee would be that he "used to be a Democrat". Being from a sure-thing state for a Republican and not well known outside of that state would be non-assets.