Jeb! Comeback Watch: A Physicist Says It's A Rubio Comeback Watch Now

For a few months now, Jeb Bush's campaign has been insisting that the Jeb! Comeback is on and that the media should get in on the ground floor of this amazing narrative. The media, however, has decided that a comeback for Marco Rubio is on , and that Jeb Bush should get on the ground floor of this amazing narrative. What will happen to Jeb Bush if the only regular column documenting his comeback switches to covering Marco Rubio's comeback? Let's find out! . 

Way, way back in December 2014, The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky asked a question that, at the time, no one could really answer: "Can Marco Rubio even win a primary ?" 

And there you have it! Marco Rubio is an unstoppable force because he got some endorsements and is drawing crowds and this is physics now. Is there anything Jeb can do to stop all the Marcomentum?

Whoa, whoa, hold up, Jeb! Don't go using your gun to stop #marcomentum, especially if you have your name engraved on it! Instead, take comfort in the fact that the third-place finish Rubio is hoping his comeback gets him will net him precisely the same number of delegates that a second-, fourth-, or fifth-place finisher in South Carolina will accrue: zero.

Ha, yes, that's the one thing that's been forgotten in the race to get Marco Rubio a comeback narrative: The South Carolina primary is winner-take-all . So sorry!

This has been the Jeb! Comeback Watch for Feb. 16. Jeb Bush finished in sixth place in Iowa (2.8 percent), and fourth in New Hampshire (11 percent). He is currently in fourth place in South Carolina  polls (9.2 percent), and in fifth place nationally  (5.3 percent). 

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Jason Linkins edits "Eat The Press" for The Huffington Post and co-hosts the HuffPost politics podcast, "So, That Happened." Subscribe here . Listen to the latest episode below.