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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe One Problem Mike Murphy Can’t Solve - How to get voters to like Jeb Bush.
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Mke Murphy finds it all very funny that people think Jeb Bush is in trouble.
The head of Bushs $100 million super PAC, Right to Rise, considers most political punditry this cycle to be stupid. Conceded. But both the stupid and occasional non-stupid pundits all agree on one thing: Things arent going well for Bush, and one cannot assume that the old rules governing Republican presidential nominating contests will inevitably save him.
Murphy outlined his thinking in a rare extended interview with Bloomberg Politics. Why? Most practically, to signal Right to Rises thinking to the official Bush campaign and leery donors. Or, in Murphys words: [W]e thought it would be good to kind of go through our theory of the race in a more distributed way.
His theory is lacking. Nowhere, between all his mockery, does he get to the heart of the matter: why people dont like Jeb Bush right now, and how Right to Rise intends to change that.
What I find is we're in this funny casino of the pre-season now, he says, where the complete sum of pundit knowledge in this race, with a few rare exceptions, is based on national polling that in my view is completely meaningless. Zuh? There will always be a fair share of bad national poll coverage. If theres more of it this time, Murphy can blame the Republican National Committee and its media partners for pegging debate participation to national polling status. But its not like Bush is only doing badly in national polls that dont matter, anyway. Hes doing poorly in polls of early states, too. Bush is doing lousy in Iowa. Thats fine: Bush is one thing and Iowa Republicans are a whole other thing. But hes also performing lousy in New Hampshire, a state he has spent an extraordinary amount of time in and has been advertising in. He is not leading in Florida, his natural firewall, or South Carolina, the GOP establishments traditional firewall for their chosen representative.
Mke Murphy finds it all very funny that people think Jeb Bush is in trouble.
The head of Bushs $100 million super PAC, Right to Rise, considers most political punditry this cycle to be stupid. Conceded. But both the stupid and occasional non-stupid pundits all agree on one thing: Things arent going well for Bush, and one cannot assume that the old rules governing Republican presidential nominating contests will inevitably save him.
Murphy outlined his thinking in a rare extended interview with Bloomberg Politics. Why? Most practically, to signal Right to Rises thinking to the official Bush campaign and leery donors. Or, in Murphys words: [W]e thought it would be good to kind of go through our theory of the race in a more distributed way.
His theory is lacking. Nowhere, between all his mockery, does he get to the heart of the matter: why people dont like Jeb Bush right now, and how Right to Rise intends to change that.
What I find is we're in this funny casino of the pre-season now, he says, where the complete sum of pundit knowledge in this race, with a few rare exceptions, is based on national polling that in my view is completely meaningless. Zuh? There will always be a fair share of bad national poll coverage. If theres more of it this time, Murphy can blame the Republican National Committee and its media partners for pegging debate participation to national polling status. But its not like Bush is only doing badly in national polls that dont matter, anyway. Hes doing poorly in polls of early states, too. Bush is doing lousy in Iowa. Thats fine: Bush is one thing and Iowa Republicans are a whole other thing. But hes also performing lousy in New Hampshire, a state he has spent an extraordinary amount of time in and has been advertising in. He is not leading in Florida, his natural firewall, or South Carolina, the GOP establishments traditional firewall for their chosen representative.
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The One Problem Mike Murphy Can’t Solve - How to get voters to like Jeb Bush. (Original Post)
Agschmid
Oct 2015
OP
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)1. First problem - you can't change history
You can write false histories but people still remember what happened.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)2. People don't like him because he's a tone-deaf idiot who says stupid shit.
Jeb!'s the kind of guy who thinks he can just show up based on his last name. He's not even trying to sell himself as a moderate, spews statements that make even Willard Romney gape in amazement, continually praises his brother's criminal administration and doesn't at all get why he's polling low.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)3. Ahahaha, big money has its limits!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)4. ''Low Energy''
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.