It could only hurt. He already realizes his family name is a liability.
I predict they’ll be desperate enough by then that they’ll decide it would do more good than harm, if only barely.
Jeb was on Meet The Press this morning. I missed most of it because I forgot it was on, but he was asked what he thinks people who dislike him would say about him and he said that they think he’s a “My way or the highway sort of fellow.” I’d agree that he’s that way.
He also would not let the health of a pregnant woman be an exception to an abortion.
He can kiss my ass.
Here’s a funny NPR article on the Internet/social media v. Jeb!: #MemeOfTheWeek: The Internet Vs. Jeb Bush : NPR
More a propos of the 2016 election than Jeb:) per se, but back in 2012 Bush thought that by 2016 Texas would turn blue.
http://nbclatino.com/2012/10/16/jeb-bush-believes-texas-will-be-blue-by-2016/
How likely is this to happen? I haven’t been able to find any relevant recent polling. But if Texas is in play that would… severely complicate matters for the GOP.
Bush still has a long way to go, but he’s still better than Trump or Carson.
Rubio is holding his own, but I don’t think he will get the nod.
Leaves Jeb Bush as the best Republican to run against Hillary Clinton …
Flip a coin after that …
No coin flip necessary. If it is Bush vs Clinton, and I still think it will be, it’ll be Clinton, and not even close.
Clinton will beat Bush. That’s just a battle of family legacies and there’s no contest there.
You can only beat Clinton with a fresh candidate with a reputation for honesty.
That sure as hell leaves out the current GOP clown car. Got anyone in mind?
What are you talking about? Ben Carson will descend from Mt. Ararat, riding a stegosaurus with the true cross in one hand and the original Betsy Ross American flag in the other. He brings Truth about the evolutionist’s lies. Truth about the efficacy of abstinence-only education. Truth about how if you cut taxes, the government makes more money.
Also he’s got a steggy-plate up his bum.
Let’s just talk about approval ratings then. Every Republican has better approval/disapproval than Clinton except for two candidates: Donald Trump and Jeb Bush.
Let’s just restate what you said. Every Republican has better approval/disapproval than Clinton except for the two best well-known candidates.
Neither of whom are likely to be the nominee. The nominee will be someone most people don’t know much about yet.
And whose approval ratings will drop when people learn more.
Below Clinton’s dismal ratings? Quite a gamble there. Good luck. The entire Democratic strategy seems to be, “Let’s pick our most famous name and the REpublicans will pick someone completely unelectable and we win.”
Be interesting to find out how that turns out.
The more Americans know a Republican, the less they like him. All you’re doing is taking the set of Republicans running, removing the most well-known, and pretending you have data. You don’t.
Except for Carson of course, who is the only candidate in either party to score a 50% approval rating.
Joke, right? Carson is probably the biggest enigma in either party. If he were to become the nominee, people would start thinking of his approval rating more as “what kind of president would he be?” versus now, when it’s more of “is he a good person?” I think you could reasonably expect his approval rating to hit the 20s. Of course, this is one of those untestable predictions, as he will never be the nominee.
Probably, but here’s the problem Clinton faces vs. a Rubio or Kasich or Christie: Her disapproval is already near a majority. Republicans just have to convince more people who don’t have an opinion yet to like them as opposed to dislike them. Clinton actually has to convince people who already don’t like her to like her. In order to win an election, Clinton has to win votes of at least some voters who already don’t like her. That’s a tall order.
They, including you, have been trying their damnedest to do that for over 20 years now. How well has it worked?