:eek: Seriously, how is that even possible?!
Grandpa, what was a moderate Republican?
Don’t hold your breath.
On second thought, do!
In NH the establishment candidates total 40% already. Many of them probably like Rubio and are likely to vote for him tactically to stop Trump and Cruz. I think a strong second place is likely and first a serious possibility.
Nationally he still has his work cut out and the establishment candidates only total 20% but I suspect these poll numbers are fairly soft and many of the other voters will gravitate towards Rubio as he starts picking up endorsements and ramps up his advertising. Remember, he is fairly conservative and started his national political career as a Tea Party favorite.
Incidentally Rubio is now at 56% on Predictwise and has basically switched places with Trump.
Fairly conservative is underselling it. He committed a sin by (sort of) supporting immigration reform. Besides that small foray, he’s one of the most conservative members of the Senate.
Great herds of them used to roam the Northeast, sonny. They were driven to extinction by their related species, the right wing Republicans, starting in the 1980s. Failing to adopt to political climate change, their numbers quickly diminished and the last known specimen, Arlen Specter, left his habitat shortly before dying.
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Funny you should mention that given how many Republican governors there are in that region now.
It’s true that there are few national moderate Republicans, of course.
At this point, Hillary’s much vaunted FBI indictment is considerably less likely then your boy Marco’s gay porn video coming out.
Are you trying to pass off Snyder, Walker, and Kasich as moderate?
Wrong region. There are GOP governors in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Jersey. Maryland too, although that’s traditionally more south.
Maryland is by any reasonable definition a Northeastern state.
No way.
Oh and the Maine and New Jersey governors are SO moderate.
If they aren’t, you’re in deeper trouble than you thought.
A state with the bulk of its population in either the Baltimore area or the suburbs of Washington, DC can’t reasonably be construed as southern, even if it has a few counties that might qualify as such.
Agree. It is certainly not a northeastern state. It is an eastern seaboard state.
The traditional boundary between North and South is the Mason-Dixon Line.
Maryland lost its claim to southernness by joining the Big Ten. I’d say based on its political leanings and ignoring the Mason-Dixon line, it’s marginally northern.
Virginia is not really Southern anymore, either.