Jeb Bush’s Allies Are Starting to Sound Like Ron Paul’s in 2012. That’s Not A Good Sign.
In a must-read interview, Sasha Issenberg gets Right to Rise PAC’s Mike Murphy to talk more than any strategist really should. After some jawing and joshing about the Donald Trump phenomenon, Murphy machetes into the jungle of delegate math, and he explains how losing the early states need not keep Jeb Bush from the nomination.
“We only have 10 pure winner-take-all states now,” Murphy insists. “The Republican Party, we used to be the Social Darwinists: second place got you a Greyhound ticket to Palookaville. Now we’re proportional, mostly by congressional district. From Feb. 1 to March 15, we have a bunch of big states; Ohio, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina probably.”
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