I’m sure there are some things republicans do better than democrats, but boy oh boy, humor is not one of them.
Its not the other one, either.
Not surprisingly, this answers a very different question than the one I raised. Please go back and read the part of my post that you *didn’t *quote.
Is Jeb Bush the next John Huntsman?
Nope. Jeb has more money in his couch cushions than Huntsman raised in his disastrous 2012 campaign. Bush will be the nominee, the big money has already spoken.
Walker has less money and less name recognition and is quite competitive. He’ll also be more conservative.
Jeb has also said he’s not backing down on Common Core or immigration. While that will set him up as nicely moderate for the general election, he has to get that through the primaries. Romney had money too and he couldn’t avoid pandering on immigration.
That is why he can’t win a general election. His chances would be only slightly better than Ted Cruz’.
Anyone who can win a swing state can win nationally. He won Wisconsin three times.
Because all swing states are the same, right? Seriously, dude.
I would assume that Walker could win any state more Republican than Wisconsin, which would include Ohio, FLorida, and Virginia, which means he can win the election. Do you believe there’s anything about Walker that wouldn’t sell in those states? States that elected guys like Rick Scott and John Kasich and Bob McDonnell?
I doubt Walker can even win Wisconsin – his gubernatorial wins were somewhat narrow, and in extremely low turnout elections – 2016 will have much higher turnout than '10, '14, and a very low-turnout recall.
But we’ll see. Bush scares me a lot more than Walker, in terms of general election electability.
All of whom graduated from college. Walker, not so much. All but the most brain dead voter will be horrified to learn he holds no degree beyond a high school diploma.
With results like those people I have to wonder how many people have vowed never to vote republican again.
I would actually love for that to be an issue. Highlights is regular dude cred, which will be useful against someone as plastic and unrelateable as his likely opponent.
I’m not sure if Walker is any less “plastic and unrelateable” than Hillary… but I seriously doubt anyone who’s not in the Republican base would consider a lack of education a plus for a candidate.
Wisconsin thought he was qualified enough. I’m sure every state more conservative than Wisconsin will as well, which is enough for an electoral majority.
Plus I just don’t think you’ll get very far trying to tell Americans that what Scott Walker didn’t do 25 years ago matters more than what he’s done since. The issue also has to be handled delicately. Wouldn’t do to insult the 65% of Americans without college degrees. Democrats already get perceived as elitists and they’ll be running the ultimate elitist candidate in all likelihood.
The response isn’t exactly hard either. Most of the current government isn’t just college educated, but Ivy League educated. Has this produced a better run government? I’m comfortable with letting the people decide, so run with it if you want.
Not really. He won against the idea of a recall for one of those. Both of the other times were in midterm years. Have WI move their elections to presidential years and see how well he does.
The fact that you’re “sure” makes me smile 
High turnout elections will be a very different challenge. Maybe Walker is up to it – we’ll see. But he really did have it easy, with the governorship up in mid-term years. Apply the same turnout from '08 and '12 to the demographics of his gubernatorial elections, and he probably would have lost.
How 'bout a cite that Democrats are perceived as elitists, if you’re talking about anyone besides Republicans?
Such criticism could be done wrong, of course, but it could be done right… the right way to do such “delicate” criticism is usually to utilize proxies. Just a few “unaffiliated” PACs constantly bringing up the issue, even if it’s not in a negative way. We shall see.
This sounds like the Huckabee-esque reverse elitism – that ‘country folk’ are more genuinely American, more moral, more hardworking, etc., than those damn elitist city-folk. I don’t think that resonates with anyone who’s not already voting against the black man (or the black man’s party).