Hustler's narrative and Bottom-up are way more robust this time around. Kalonzo and team Azimio will be lucky to get 80% this time around in Ukambani. Ruto ONLY needs 10%-15% of Kamba votes to take it home early. Mvurya and Amason Kingi are taking away Azimio votes in Coast in large numbers; Mudavadi and Wetangula (Former NASA kingpins in western) are bringing additional million votes. A few months ago, the debate appeared that DP had only one bullet of winning(Mt Kenya). It was argued that Ruto would be tossed once Ruto failed to get 70-80% of the mountain. For the keen observers, it is clear now that the candidate that needs the mountain more is Raila, not Ruto. Ruto has worked magic to raid NASA strongholds the last few months. As it stands, Raila needs 59% of Mountain votes to compete with Ruto based on internal UDA polls conducted weekly by competent UDA number crunchers!
Ruto was at 59 90 days ago now; he is 61% (Internal polls from UDA)
In the meantime, Ngilu people in Kitui are happy to meet Hustler!