Discussion: Jeb Bush Campaign Paid $2,800 For Every Vote In Iowa

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What morons are still funding this guy?

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"Jesus Christ, how’s he gonna pay his club dues now?!?!"

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Like Cash for Clunkers, but for a lost cause.

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I’d say after NH, he’s gone. If he tries to stick around after SC, he’ll be doing so with his own money.

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Look how much Giuliani spent on just one delegate to the Republican Convention, in 2008!

http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/02/02/giuliani-spends-50-million-for-one-delegate/

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Brownback spent more than $4,000 per vote received in the Kansas Governor’s election in 2014. That blows my mind

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For $2800 and a plane ticket, I’d have flown to Des Moines and caucused for him.

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more of that legendary Bush fiscal conservatism.

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He sticks around through SC. The Bush campaign has long felt that SC is the most favorable to JEB of all the early states, so they are in it that far at least.

A poor showing there, however, especially if his numbers aren’t moving up in FL, and he is out. Florida is the place where he cannot afford an embarrassing finish, and so, he will avoid it be suspending his campaign, which will open FL up for Rubio.

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look for local media to try and prop him up… that is a lot of advertising dollars to try and secure.

Sort of the media fleecing the rubes

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I think FL goes to Rump and SC could potentially go for JEB.

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Already this morning, Poppy’s slapped a nurse and thrown mush on the wall…

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I won’t venture a guess until NH starts to clear up some. Its very muddy, and probably going to get muddier this week. Once that primary is over, we should have a clearer picture of what is emerging.

Right now, Rubio, Christie, Kasich and Bush are all bunched up in essentially a statistical tie in NH. 2 of those will definitely drop out after NH, as will most of the rest of the also-rans…Fiorina, Paul, etc.

My guess is, only 4 people come out of NH, Trump, Cruz, one of Rubio-Christie-Kasich, and Bush. Its possible that Bush tanks so badly in NH that he quits, but am skeptical of that. And the guess is, is that Rubio parlays his performance in IA into enough of a bump to pull him ahead of the rest for a 2nd place finish behind Trump…possibly even a very close 2nd.

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Are they getting ready to throw him out of another plane?

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In other words, business as usual.

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YEB!?*

yep

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Look, maybe you’re right. I’m just saying that I don’t see NH producing a 4 way but another 3 way and JEB isn’t in that. I see Kasich, Trump, and Cruz. I have heard that SC has claimed it’s support for all things Bush (Elder, Lesser and JEB alike) but getting there isn’t gonna be easy for him. At all.

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Spread the butter on him. He is TOAST.

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Cruz actually isn’t polling all that well in NH. He is stuck in the middle of the pack with all the other names I listed. Nor do I see him pulling ahead there. He emerges from NH because of the IA win and because he has the money and organization to go the distance. Same reason Bush goes on to SC…the investments into SC have already been made, it makes little sense to pull out before they see the results.

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