The least-doofus is Kasich, it appears. Which is why he won’t last much longer.
He’s the one who scares me the most, too. But, of course, I was originally scared of Walker, so I’m obviously rather dim.
There already is one.
More or less true (Newt also made it into the early primaries), but you’re right - in 2012, most of the other anti-Romneys had self-destructed well before Iowa.
The problem is, this time there are a ton of ‘outsider’ candidates, and they’re not all going to self-destruct before Iowa. And one of them, Ben Carson, clearly has the inside track on Santorum’s old core constituency (and Jindal’s hoped-for constituency) of religious conservatives. Neither of them has any chance at all unless Carson bombs with them between now and Groundhog Day. And even then, they’ve got to contend with Trump and Cruz and Huckabee.
Jindal should drop out now after a poll just came out showing that he’d lose Louisiana to Hillary Clinton.
Yeah, that’s impressively bad. But if he didn’t have a Presidential campaign going, he’d have no excuse to avoid dealing with Louisiana’s problems, so I’m sure he’ll keep running for awhile.
Breaking news on top of Yahoo.com is that Jindal is suspending his campaign.
I think we will see a few more of these minor leaguers dropping out as we head into holiday season. It’s far more pleasurable spending the holidays at home rather than stomping through the snow in Twin Hole, Iowa.
Earlier today PredictIt had:
Pataki $0.37
Jindal $0.18
Graham $0.15
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I wonder if anyone in the Jindal inner circle cashed in on that insider info. I’m not even sure if that would be against the law. Even with the cap of $850 per market someone could have rolled $850 into $4722.
I don’t care, actually. The purpose of prediction markets is to predict, and if insiders know something it makes prediction markets more accurate, even if it’s unfair to those not in the know.
Not sure I really care all that much either, but prediction markets work better with larger volume. If it becomes known that insides can slip in and scoop up big chunks of the pot that could drive volume down.
Why do people do this? We knew he was going to run. When he announced, we knew he had no shot. What makes people donate money to such a hopeless cause? You might as well use your c-notes for toilet paper as donate them to the Jindal campaign. Yet presumably, many people did. What drives them to lunacy, I’ll never know.
He was upset he did not get endorsed by Max Von Sydow.
Wow. I knew Jindal would drop out eventually, but I certainly thought once he announced that he would stay in at least until Super Tuesday, even though, as everyone with a brain knew, he had absolutely no chance at the nomination.
What would have been the downside for him to stay in? He wasn’t spending any money, was he?
Too bad. One less loser to laugh at. 
I thought Santorum or Huckabee would go next.
This is why I never bet. I would lose a lot of money.
Why do losers announce they are *suspending *their campaigns, not ending them? Is that just a fiction to allow some legal entity to remain in existence to pay bills etc.? Or do some really hope for a miracle?
Well, your odds of being correct by selecting one of them just went up. The next to drop out will be either Santorum or Huckabee.
Pataki too could drop out, and Rand’s exit seems like it’s coming soon as well, since he needs to start thinking about defending his Senate seat.
Here’s CNN on Jindal’s suspension of his campaign. He predicts (surprise!) that Trump will not be the GOP nominee: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/17/politics/bobby-jindal-announces-he-is-ending-presidential-campaign/index.html