Rick Santorum voter support drops to 0% after debate

it also matters what the error means.

if it’s assessing “likely republican voters from rural kanas over the age of 55” from one poll, and “texan evangelicals” in another - then they aren’t even necessarily comparable numbers.

the polls are so small, their numbers seem near to meaningless right now.

I would hope not, but I would assume that he has a wee bit better chance than Cruz.

Sorry, Santorum. You gonna have to carry your dead presidential campaign to full term.

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Wow. I have to say I am intrigued by Fiorina but she has zero experience in politics.

How do you lose money running a casino? That must take a rare sort of genius.

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[quote=“Michael_R_Smith, post:67, topic:63424”]
Wow. I have to say I am intrigued by Fiorina but she has zero experience in politics.[/quote]
And her “business experience” consists of turning a vibrant, positive company into a sinkhole of backstabbing, petty politics, and bureaucracy. (Full disclosure: I was one of her many victims there. She can go DIAF as far as I’m concerned. I wouldn’t vote for her for dogcatcher, and I can’t understand the thought processes that lets anyone think she’s a viable political candidate.)

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On Fiorina:

What non-Californians don’t know about Carly Fiorina – but should

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Thank you for posting that! Aside from her miserable tenure at HP, I had forgotten this other little gem:

“it was poleaxed by the revelation that she had failed to cast a ballot in 75% of the California elections for which she was an eligible voter. She missed presidential primaries in 2000 and 2004, and the primary and general elections in 2006, including a Senate reelection run by Democrat Dianne Feinstein. She skipped the gubernatorial elections in 2002 and the historic recall vote that brought Arnold Schwarzenegger to the governor’s seat.”

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Well at least it looks like he has something else to keep him busy. One hand anyway.

Some people seriously need a minder to follow them around with a rubber chicken.

His business experience is also entirely within his own private enclaves. Unlike even Fiorina, he doesn’t seem to exist in or really interact with the normal business world; AFAICT he doesn’t sit on boards other than his own, and has never even been employed by any company that doesn’t have “Trump” in the name.

(Ordinarily, being at a remove from that back-slapping, log-rolling, old boy business network might be a positive, as people are rightly suspicious of all that insider cliquery. But entrepreneurial success isn’t as tied to coöperation, so one can get away with being a lot more… eccentric. Which is a crapshoot; you could wind up a Trump, or a Gates, or a Branson. It’s certainly not a reliable indicator of relevant qualifications.)

(ETA: Or a McAfee!)

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See Q15 & 16. (old poll, but whatever…)

https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/poll.aspx?oItemId=1592

538’s take:

The Post-Debate Losers (Walker) and Winners (Fiorina)

Inappropriate for whom?

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