Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!:
Donald Trump has joined the top-tier of presidential contenders, ranking alongside Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul in New Hampshire, a new poll of Republican primary voters there reveals.
Bah. Name recognition, nothing more.
But wait....what's this....?
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush took the top spot.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"The race in New Hampshire and in other states has become between Bush and Not-Bush," said Doug Kaplan, the managing partner of Florida-based Gravis Insights, which conducted the poll for the Howie Carr radio show.
Of nearly five hundred voters surveyed, 21% said they will vote for Bush, while Walker, Paul and Trump rounded out the top tier of candidates.
Thirteen percent of respondents favored Walker and Paul, while 12% favored for Trump. Florida Senator Marco Rubio took 9% in the survey.
"Walker is the strongest of the Not-Bush, but he is competing against nine or ten or more other candidates," Kaplan said. [emphasis added]
Here's what I wrote in this space twelve days ago:
It wasn't that long ago that Governor Walker was topping these surveys, and by a significant margin. Why? Because the field was still at a reasonable size. Clarity was still possible. But now? With over twenty "hopefuls"? With it now impossible to shoehorn everybody onto a single stage in a debate format that wouldn't limit everybody to under ten words apiece or go on for several days at a sitting? Not possible. He's gotten lost in the noise - perhaps never to reemerge.
The only possible saving grace to a gaggle of "contenders" this absurdly huge is that the "establishment" candidate - Jeb of House Bush - has to elbow a few RINO rivals out of his own way, like Huckles and the Big Man and perhaps Trump and Fiorina. But those obstacles hardly compare with the frighteningly overpopulated mob that is transmogrifying the conservative vote into electoral dust.
And when that "dust" settles under eight months from now? We know Jeb'll be there. But who'll be left after the conservative battle royal? And will any survivors not be so damaged and depleted that Bush III won't cruise to the nomination, tack to the center, and go on to the obligatory crushing, demoralizing defeat in November?
Damn, there are times when I wish I wasn't a prophet.
But this poll is an outlier, isn't it? Isn't it? Please? Pretty please, dear God, with sugar on it? Can't Trump and Bush III at least take each other out and leave the path clear for true presidential timbre?
Exit question: If New Hampshire is known for its "quirky" GOP electorate's love of "mavericks," just is exactly how can it be that the least mavericky, most buttoned-down "establishment" guy in the entire field is leading this poll by double-digits? Anybody got a few pallets of salt I can borrow?
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