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« on: January 09, 2015, 07:54:18 PM »

In that order, followed by Christie and Rubio.
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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2015, 12:14:22 AM »

Jindal at #7? Junk rankings!
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« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2015, 12:35:10 AM »

Ugh, just get Jeb out of here and I might become quite optimistic. That's quite a line of great candidates - my top 3 right behind him.

Huck should absolutely be higher though. Certainly ahead of Bobby.
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« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2015, 04:55:14 PM »

Despite his problems, I'd probably peg Christie at third place instead of Walker, but I otherwise agree with them.
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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2015, 09:11:38 PM »


Jindal has a lot of strengths. He's a young brown guy with academic credentials in a party that has been associated with old white guys (Dole, Cheney, McCain, Romney, Gingrich) and idiots (Quayle, W, Perry, Palin). He has plenty of negatives, but he has the right background to benefit from a decent campaign.
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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2015, 11:14:00 PM »

Of the people listed in the article:

Walker
Paul
Bush
Ryan
Kasich
Cruz
Christie
Rubio
Huckabee
Jindal
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« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2015, 10:58:36 AM »


Jindal has a lot of strengths. He's a young brown guy with academic credentials in a party that has been associated with old white guys (Dole, Cheney, McCain, Romney, Gingrich) and idiots (Quayle, W, Perry, Palin). He has plenty of negatives, but he has the right background to benefit from a decent campaign.

Yeah but literally nobody cares about him. He has no niche. Some people say that Walker could be the next Pawlenty, but Jindal seems like a much better fit for that.
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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2015, 11:44:14 AM »

Scott Walker, the most devoted acolyte of the Great and Wonderful Koch Dynasty, would begin with a huge edge in fund-raising. He has done nothing to offend any core GOP constituency; he is a political survivor in a swing state in a 50-50 national election; he has shown himself fearless in confronting liberal interest groups. He will not make fruitless efforts to seek compromise from people who think him a demon.

He would be perfect for establishing permanent electoral majorities for a monolithic, authoritarian GOP -- which would win as Democrats are rendered increasingly irrelevant by culling the vote.
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« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2015, 03:23:57 PM »

Scott Walker, the most devoted acolyte of the Great and Wonderful Koch Dynasty, would begin with a huge edge in fund-raising. He has done nothing to offend any core GOP constituency; he is a political survivor in a swing state in a 50-50 national election; he has shown himself fearless in confronting liberal interest groups. He will not make fruitless efforts to seek compromise from people who think him a demon.

He would be perfect for establishing permanent electoral majorities for a monolithic, authoritarian GOP -- which would win as Democrats are rendered increasingly irrelevant by culling the vote.

Scott Walker trails Hillary badly in most of the GE polling.  He very well could be the next President, but as a Democrat, your melodramatic all-is-doom narrative is both nonfactual and utterly bizarre.   This seems like a mix between a Freeper's confidence of GOP victory and a DailyKos/MJ bitterness.
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« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2015, 10:18:07 PM »
« Edited: January 12, 2015, 10:20:21 PM by TDR1994 »

Barring some shift in GOP primary dynamics. I don't see any way that Ted Cruz doesn't end up winning the nomination.

Pundits make these things overly simple, they think that the way a candidate wins elections is by checking all the right boxes (conservative but not too radical, from a blue state but conservative enough for the TP, anti-Obama, but not too overly negative, on and on and on), but they never focus on the overall mood or feelings of voters themselves.
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