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Every once in a while, a really good idea or new way of looking at things comes along that is worth replicating.

Early this month, J. Ann Selzer, president of Des Moines-based Selzer & Company and pollster for The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg News, offered up a better way of looking at the potential for support of the multitude of Republican presidential contenders.

Real estate magnate and reality TV star Donald Trump has jumped to second place among New Hampshire Republicans, trailing only former Florida governor Jeb Bush in a new Suffolk University Poll.

With new polls out Tuesday from CNN and the good people at the Washington Post (in partnership with ABC News), we’ve updated our widget to reflect what the stage would look like if the first debate were held today.

At the early stage of a contest like the 2016 Republican nomination fight, where there are numerous strong and plausible candidates, just being thought well of by voters may be more important than being their first choice. The Wall Street Journal today reports on the results of their poll (conducted with NBC News) showing that by this measure, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and current Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio are faring well, with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee not ... Read More >>

Donald Trump says he’s a presidential candidate, but the Federal Election Commission’s records say something different.

A majority of early-state insiders say that Marco Rubio’s lack of national experience will prove problematic in the GOP primary after seven years of President Barack Obama, who was also a first-term senator when he ran.

If Donald Trump’s campaign is a media stunt, it is already safe to say: Mission Accomplished.

Zignal Labs, our analytics partner, visualizes the extent to which Trump dominated the 2016 conversation during his Tuesday announcement. There were more than 113,000 mentions of Trump across social media between the hour of 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern, when Trump announced his candidacy.