Newt Gingrich: Jeb Bush Is Not A Front-Runner 12.14.14
NEWT GINGRICH: He'll be one of ten or twelve people, we have lots of runners, no front-runner.
Jeb Bush is not a front-runner, there are no front-runners.
This is going to be a wide open race, probably the most open on our side since 1940.
That one turned out well for the Rs.
I was just short of my third birthday, so I don't remember much about the 1940 election.
My Republican granddad always said it was a humdinger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1940
FDR (D) carried 38 states and 449 electoral votes. Wendell Willkie (R) carried 10 states and 82 electoral votes. It was one of the largest landslide victories in US Presidential election history.