Rubes’ Momentum Breaks

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I confess I had figured Jeb! was one vote away from ditching the race and signing on a spokesman for Low-T drugs. But now we’re seeing that there are initial indications that Marco Rubio’s momentum at least has been broken by the Rubot incident. The latest tracking polls show only a tiny drop from his earlier numbers but they are enough indicate that the rush of support in his direction was arrested by Saturday’s debate, which is probably all his opponents needed, or the minimum they needed.

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