First let’s see if she can win IA and/or NH. Biden’s exit from the race doesn’t seem to have improved her standing in the two states that are actually paying attention.
Sanders is still playing an important role, especially for those of us who still distrust the whole Clintonista…thing. She is and has been publicly atoning for the errors therein, as well she should. Only mouthing platitudes? Yes, probably, but that only means she has to. In politics, public hypocrisy often precedes virtue. More often, of course, it replaces it. But not always, the good guys do win, once in a while.
If Horndog Bill had sat down and written out a campaign strategy for Hillary, it would look a lot like this. I’m thinking he did, and I’m thinking it is. The Benghazi hearings were simply a Sign of the approval of a just and loving Goddess…
So you’re sticking with the “Hillary’s in free fall” line. By now you have to, right?
I won’t be a bit surprised if Sanders wins New Hampshire, not one bit. It won’t make a dimes worth of difference in the eventual nomination. Assuming that she doesn’t get hit by a truck crossing the street, Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president.
Maybe she should pick Jeb as her running mate. Then she’d lock down the entitled vote.
I don’t understand this at all. There are any number of Democrats who could have run for the nomination. They didn’t. Of the ones that did, Clinton is defeating them even before the primaries start. She’s got one realistic opponent, and she is campaigning to win against him. Yet somehow you manage to spin as she feels entitled to the nomination?
If she wins the nomination, she will have earned it. Same goes for Bush, by the way, since he’s the subject of this thread.
Clinton, unlike Jeb, didn’t draw the best of the field. Biden, Warren, Warner, Booker, Patrick, all stayed out. Practically every plausible Republican is in there with Bush.
“Plausible Republican” is an oxymoron. Santorum, Huckabee, Jindal, Trump, Carson, Perry, Cruz, and Paul are not now, never have been, and never will be plausible. The only things missing from the whack-a-doodle bingo card are Bachmann and Palin.
Bush’s troubles remind me of the dog food company that was having trouble selling. They tried several advertisers, switched packaging a few times, and lowered the price. Nothing worked. Finally they hired a consultant to find the cause. The report came back “Dogs don’t like it”. Much the same with Bush. Doesn’t matter who you hold him up against, he’s still Jeb.
Even assuming that’s “the best of the field” (in the estimation of, well, you), just why do you think it is that they *all *stayed out?
OK, let’s look at Iowa. Three polls have been taken in Iowa since Biden dropped out: CBS/YouGov, Quinnipiac, and Des Moines Register. All three also polled Iowa in the last 10 days of August and/or the first 10 days of September. Let’s compare (Hillary’s numbers first, then Bernie’s, in all cases):
CBS then: 33-43. Now: 46-43. Hillary goes from -10 to +3.
Q then: 40-41. Now: 51-40. Hillary goes from -1 to +11.
DMR then: 37-30. Now: 48-41. Hillary stays at +7.
Looks like an improvement to me.
In NH, there’s been only one post-Biden poll, also by CBS/YouGov, and they polled NH in early September also.
CBS then: 30-52. Now: 39-54. Hillary goes from -22 to -15.
That also looks like an improvement.
And before you say the obvious “Hillary’s still behind by 15 in NH,” she’s really not, except for this one poll. No other poll since the beginning of July had Bernie up by more than 16 in NH, so CBS was an outlier for having Bernie up by 22. And the other polls now in RCP’s NH average have Hillary and Bernie essentially tied there, even with Biden in all the numbers, so once again CBS is an outlier.
Anyway, as best as we can tell, Biden’s exit seems to have helped Hillary in Iowa and NH. She’s got a clear lead in Iowa, and is competitive in NH. And the effects of her Benghazi! testimony have yet to affect the polls.
Not sure why we’re discussing this in the Jeb! thread, but whatever.
She’s just free-falling upward. 
No, but from the neck up he does kind of resemble a tortise. Can’t you imagine him verrry slowly and tentatively taking a hands-free bite out of an enormous head of lettuce?
But he’s not up against Al Bore.
Nobody will ever conjure up that image in my mind the way McConnell does.
He’s starting to get cranky about not being handed the nomination like Poppy promised:
Expect that bluff to be called, on a massive scale.
Pappy Bush has called a family meeting so the Bush’s will be hunkering down this weekend to discuss Jeb’s campaign. GHWB, GWB, Barbara…and of course, Jeb!, will all be there.
Ninja’d about 30 posts back. 
Late of Pablo Fanques fair - what a scene.
I love every single thing about Jeb!'s flailing candidacy. The fact that it’s dumbfounded his entire family is just icing on the cake.
And yes, that means I’m resoundingly indebted to Trump. I want him in this thing as long as humanly possible.
So the family meeting is over and Politico has an interesting write up about it. Some of my favorite bits:
Oh lordy, lordy, lordy! Poor JEB! is on the ropes and none of the Bushies can figure out why this has happened! I gotta say JEB!'s little snit is typical of the patrician mindset of the entire family. “How dare these low-class upstarts dare challenge the accepted order! OFF with their heads!”
True, McConnell is a contender at the Turtlesque Congresscritter Pageant, but has he everidentified himself as a tortoise like Jeb! has?