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Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 10:15 AM Oct 2015

The 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 Bush’s $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 aren’t 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 Rise’s thinking to the official Bush campaign and leery donors. Or, in Murphy’s 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 don’t 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 there’s 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 it’s not like Bush is only doing badly in national polls that don’t matter, anyway. He’s doing poorly in polls of early states, too. Bush is doing lousy in Iowa. That’s fine: Bush is one thing and Iowa Republicans are a whole other thing. But he’s 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 establishment’s 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
First problem - you can't change history liberal N proud Oct 2015 #1
People don't like him because he's a tone-deaf idiot who says stupid shit. HughBeaumont Oct 2015 #2
Ahahaha, big money has its limits! AZ Progressive Oct 2015 #3
''Low Energy'' Octafish Oct 2015 #4
So low. Agschmid Oct 2015 #5

liberal N proud

(60,302 posts)
1. First problem - you can't change history
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 10:22 AM
Oct 2015

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.
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 10:28 AM
Oct 2015

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.

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