Will JerseyBoy stay in the race as long as he finishes top 4?

[Matty]

Or will he drop out, considering he put all his eggs and effort into granite-land?

[Ronnie]

I very much doubt even he expects he'll end up in 4th place.  I think a low double digit finish might be just enough to prompt him to continue.

[This account no longer in use.]

If he finishes behind Jeb? or Tubeman, then he'll drop out.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Christie and Kasich will drop out unless they finish Third or higher. Bush would probably stay in with a 4th place finish, but beyond that I'd imagine he'd drop out.

[Lief 🗽]

Christie has less than $1 million left. If he finishes high enough that money starts coming in, he'll go on. If he doesn't, then he literally cannot.  So it really depends more on what donors decide than what he decides.

[Mr. Morden]

If Rubio's debate gaffe does indeed cause him to seriously underperform his recent polling, then I wouldn't be surprised if the only dropouts we get this week are Fiorina and Gilmore.  Even the candidate finishing 6th place (whether that be Christie or someone else) might figure that if one debate can shake things up so much, then you might as well stay in for the next debate (coming up on Saturday), and see how things go.  By that time, post-New Hampshire polling will have sorted itself out somewhat, and, if nothing earth-shattering occurs in that next debate, one or more low-polling candidates would then drop out in the following week (still before South Carolina).

[Famous Mortimer]

I suspect Christie, Kasich, and Fiorina will drop out if they do worse than third. Bush, Rubio, and Carson will probably stay in until after South Carolina. Cruz is will stay in until he's either the nominee or the 2016 version of Santorum, the last remaining opposition candidate to the presumptive nominee.

Gilmore's campaign is not operating by the rules of logic. Impossible to predict when he will go.

[Likely Voter]

It's likely that Christie is  close to broke. He started in January with just about $1.1m, which was actually less than Rand Paul. He needs a top 3 to raise the money to keep going.  Same is probably true of Fiorina and Kasich, although they started with more money so perhaps they save enough for SC.