Another GOP Candidate Short on Funds: Jeb!

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"Jeb Bush's campaign slashed hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries over the last three months as the struggling candidate's fundraising machine slowed to a more middling pace, new campaign-finance reports indicate...

...'The campaign has knocked on doors, made calls, sent mail and advertised so much that it has made more than one million voter contacts,' (Danny) Diaz (Jeb's campaign manager) said...

...And to rivals and the few neutral Republicans observing the race, all of the data about voter contacts indicates Bush's weak position.

'We've reached one million people and we're in fifth place nationally?' said one Bush supporter who didn't want to be identified. 'I trust the campaign.  I just don't know about the voters.  It's like the more Jeb is out there, the less well he does.'"

eye'm thynkin':  That's because every time Jeb opens his mouth he seems to discover another group of American voters to offend.  In the end, he is still a Bush--pretty to look at, but scratch beneath the thin mahogany veneer and you've got cheap pasteboard.

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