Inside Marco Rubio's Hollow Campaign

So while other campaigns touted “shock and awe” fundraising networks and precise, psychographic analytics and voter targeting operations, Rubio’s tight-knit group of mostly 40-something bros believed wholeheartedly that they didn’t need a specific early-state win. They didn't need a particular political base. They didn’t need to talk process. They didn't need a ground game. They didn’t need to be the immediate front-runner.

All they needed was Marco.

Their confidence bordered on arrogance. Sure, his closest advisers—campaign manager Terry Sullivan and media strategists Todd Harris and Heath Thompson—were right that their candidate was likable. He began the race as the second choice of many Republican primary voters. They just never figured out how to make voters embrace him as their first.

Trump was drawing away the cameras they had banked on lifting their rising star, sucking up all the media attention as he dominated media cycle after media cycle, setting the parameters of the 2016 debate, day after day. Suddenly, their telegenic candidate couldn’t get on TV.

And when Rubio stumbled, as all candidates do, there was no infrastructure to catch him, no field program to lift his support, no base to fall back upon.

All they had was Marco.


http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/marco-rubio-2016-campaign-drop-out-213736#ixzz435A9OpBv

You know your party sucks when

The biggest cause for celebration is a candidate winning his home state.

Godzilla watching tonight's results.

If I were a Republican, I would hate Ben Ginsberg's guts.

He sits at that desk every Tuesday night plotting out loud how he can deny all those Republican voters their nominee. I really don't think that's going to play well.

Predictions for next week: AZ for Hillary and UT for Bernie.

Mark it.

MSNBC: HILLARY WINS MISSOURI!!!!

A couple of thoughts tonight on the Republicans.

Their nightmare just came true. The golden boy Marco Rubio is out. Cruz may not walk away from tonight with a single win and John Katich has his win in Ohio and reason to keep going and splitting the anti-Trump vote But I take special pleasure in the political demise of that bag of air, Rubio. This guy never accomplished a single thing. He used Republican Paty and Florida state credit card for his personal shit. And did all what little he ever accomplished looking in the mirror.

By, Little Marco.

I'm calling Missouri for Hillary.

The remaining votes are in her areas. Bragging rights only as she in Bernie will split the delegates roughly 50/50.

The only votes left to count in MO are St. Louis, St. Louis County and Jackson County.

I'm calling Missouri for Trump

it's so close that I don't know what it means in terms of delegates.