Nate Cohn: “We’ll probably get a sense for whether Mr. Rubio and Mr. Christie are stronger than they now appear — or whether Mr. Bush is weaker — over the next couple of weeks. We might learn that Mr. Bush is not faring quite as well in the invisible primary as it seems — that Mr. Romney’s weakness, more than Mr. Bush’s strength, was responsible for the lack of interest in Mr. Romney’s candidacy. Donors and activists might show more interest in Mr. Rubio or Mr. Christie than Mr. Romney.”
“For now, though, based in part on what happened to Mr. Romney and on my subjective read of the reporting on Mr. Bush’s early strength among the G.O.P. elite, there probably isn’t enough room for Mr. Christie or Mr. Rubio to build the candidacies they had hoped for.”
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