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Re: Does the crowded GOP potus candidates field risk there being an unpopular nominee
Jeb loses social conservatives with his Immigration stance and with Common Core (of which he is a big proponent, but which social conservatives actively loathe. Ditto for Huckabee); Rubio is actually slightly more socially conservative. Interestingly, Rubio is still able to present his positions more cheerfully and gracefully, whereas Jeb seems to carry around the same disdain for his base that helped doom Huntsman.
I could be wrong, and stand to be corrected, but Jeb Bush is far more in line with social conservatives in the Republican Party than either Rubio and Paul, he's just quietly so. He will be attractive to social conservatives, when the likes of Huckabee and Santorum inevitably drop out, in a way that Paul definitely and Rubio likely will not. Add to that his perception as a moderate, simply because he isn't strident, and you have the recipe for a conservative Republican President who can garner the support of the Reagan Democrats, to the extent they still exist.
Jeb loses social conservatives with his Immigration stance and with Common Core (of which he is a big proponent, but which social conservatives actively loathe. Ditto for Huckabee); Rubio is actually slightly more socially conservative. Interestingly, Rubio is still able to present his positions more cheerfully and gracefully, whereas Jeb seems to carry around the same disdain for his base that helped doom Huntsman.