Let's play a game. Who do you believe will be the last 4-5 standing candidates?

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

If you could play political pundit/analyst and are a betting person, who do you personally believe has the best chance to be in the "final 4-5"?

I'll start
Jeb Bush
Scott Walker
Ted Cruz
Rand Paul
Donald Trump

[Bigby]

Kasich, Rubio, Walker, Fiorina, and Bush.

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

Bush, Rubio, Walker, Kasich, Cruz

[Abraham Reagan]

Kasich, Rubio, Walker, Fiorina, and Bush.

Spot on sir, spot on.

[Figueira]

Wild guess: Bush, Trump, Rubio, Huckabee, and Paul. But it's impossible to tell at this point. I don't think anyone in August 2011 would have said Romney, Paul, Gingrich, and Santorum.

[The Other Castro]

Rubio, Cruz, Kasich, Walker, Paul

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Rubio, Cruz, Kasich, Walker, Paul

Oh no Bush? Why not?

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

Rubio, Cruz, Kasich, Walker, Paul

Oh no Bush? Why not?

Bush fatigue among Republican voters maybe?

[The Other Castro]

Rubio, Cruz, Kasich, Walker, Paul

Oh no Bush? Why not?

I feel like he's going to continue to appear lackluster in the debates, gradually slip in the polls, and reach the point where there is an "establishment reevaluation" in which Rubio and/or Kasich starts feeling more of the love. TOD: The day after the New Hampshire primary.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Another note, we had a county GOP meet up and we held a straw poll and thought it was interesting:

Mike Huckabee 27.2%
Ted Cruz 17.2%
Carly Fiorina 10.8%
Ben Carson 10.3%
Donald Trump 8.4%
Jeb Bush 7.4%
Marco Rubio 6.4%
Scott Walker 5.4%
Rand Paul 4.4%
John Kasich 3.9%
Rick Perry 1%
Bobby Jindal 0.5%
Chris Christie 0.5%
No one else had any votes

Being in Florida and having both Floridian candidates only get 13.8% makes me smile inside lol.

[dudeabides]

Bush, Walker, Paul, Huckabee, and Trump.

As I put in my 2016 "what will happen" timeline, I see Trump ending his bid after Super Tuesday. Walker ends his bid before Wisconsin (what I neglected to put in was Walker virtually tied with Bush in his home state in polls) and Paul ends his bid in late March. Huckabee stays in until early April. I believe Carly will stay in through Super Tuesday.

[Maxwell]

Rubio, Walker, Huckabee (?, the evangelical candidate will probably win a few primaries), Bush, Paul (only because he would probably stay in a while, and I suspect he could come back)

I could also see Fiorina or Kasich replacing one of the ones up there.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Kasich, Rubio, Walker, Fiorina, and Bush.

See, I used to think Rubio would be up there too, but he hasn't had a great campaign and his numbers have plummeted. I mean he can still rise back up, but I don't think he's top tier any more.

[Bigby]

Kasich, Rubio, Walker, Fiorina, and Bush.

See, I used to think Rubio would be up there too, but he hasn't had a great campaign and his numbers have plummeted. I mean he can still rise back up, but I don't think he's top tier any more.

Did you watch the GOP debate? I've seen countless people say he either won outright or he at the very least improved his standing.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Kasich, Rubio, Walker, Fiorina, and Bush.

See, I used to think Rubio would be up there too, but he hasn't had a great campaign and his numbers have plummeted. I mean he can still rise back up, but I don't think he's top tier any more.

Did you watch the GOP debate? I've seen countless people say he either won outright or he at the very least improved his standing.

Yes I did, and I don't think he did that great IMO, I thought Kasich did the best. but that's beside the point. I am talking about pre-debate here.

[Higgs]

Rubio, Cruz, Kasich, Walker, Paul

Oh no Bush? Why not?

I feel like he's going to continue to appear lackluster in the debates, gradually slip in the polls, and reach the point where there is an "establishment reevaluation" in which Rubio and/or Kasich starts feeling more of the love. TOD: The day after the New Hampshire primary.

I agree that Bush will probably have more lackluster debate performances but I think he's got too big a machine behind him to not be in the final four/five.

I see it being Bush, Kasich, Walker, Paul, Cruz

[GLPman]

Kasich, Rubio, Walker, Fiorina, and Bush.

Hopefully this. Although my guess for now is: Bush, Trump, Walker, Huckabee, and Cruz.

[Angel of Death]

Kasich, Rubio, Walker, Fiorina, and Bush.

This is a ludicrous selection. These are pretty much all establishment-friendly candidates, who would invariably rally around one person to mop up against the ideologues that are motivated to stay in for the long haul. I don't see someone like, say, Ted Cruz dropping out quickly, especially if there are multiple more moderate candidates out there splitting the vote.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Bush, Rubio, and Walker are the three obvious ones, and from three different wings of the party.  Then, you expect that an anti-establishment- either Cruz, Paul, or Trump- will stick around.  The fifth spot is probably a tossup between Kasich and Fiorina.

[Kingpoleon]

Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and John Kasich.

[Crumpets]

Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, John Kasich, and Donald Trump (not because he deserves it, but he'll stay in until the bitter end)

[Penelope]

Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and Scott Walker.

Trump, Huckabee, and Santorum all drop out before Iowa. Everyone other than the five candidates listed above, give or take Marco Rubio, drop out before Super Tuesday.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Walker
Kasich
Bush
Trump
Cruz

[Adriano Chiká]

Trump
Kasich
Paul
Huckabee
Bush, maybe Walker

[Yelnoc]

Trump, Bush, Carson, Paul