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The Washington Post conducted a poll of American adults (not registered voters or likely voters, it’s worth noting) on the 2016 potential candidates. There aren’t many surprises, but there are a few interesting bits of information. Some excerpts:

Poll: Bush now tops GOP field; Clinton runs ahead of all Republicans

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush now leads the field of Republican candidates for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination, but former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton enjoys a decided advantage over Bush ... Read More >>

Three swing states are not exactly swinging in the right direction for former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

Bush had dropped eight points in little more than a month in his home state of Florida, a new Quinnipiac University poll finds. While the presumptive GOP frontrunner leads the new poll with 24 percent support from the 428 registered Republicans surveyed, putting him out front of his Republican rivals in the Sunshine State, that’s down from 32 percent of Florida voters who said they supported him for president on Feb. 4.

California donors still not sold on Jeb Bush

When Jeb Bush launched a presidential super PAC earlier this year, he got a jump on the competition and quickly positioned himself as the establishment wing front-runner.

But his fundraising trip to California this week shows he’s a long way from being the clear choice for conservative establishment money. Bush hasn’t laid the same groundwork there that Mitt Romney did in his two runs, faces stiffer competition for dollars and donors aren’t yet convinced he can defeat Hillary Clinton.

Jeb Bush, Scott Walker lead competitive GOP presidential field in New Hampshire

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are leading a competitive GOP presidential race in New Hampshire, which hosts the first-in-the-nation primary contest, according to a presidential poll released this week.

Mr. Walker and Mr. Bush each carried 15 percent of the respondents in the Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll of likely voters.

They were followed by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, 13 percent; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, 10 percent,; and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, 7 percent.

Tony Perkins pushes back against reports: ‘I am not against Jeb’

Social Conservatives Looking to Unite Behind One Candidate

The New York Times reports that social conservatives are looking for a single candidate to unite behind as an alternative to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, seen by some as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2016. Leading contenders for the preferred challenger to Bush include Senator Ted Cruz, Governor Bobby Jindal, and former governors Rick Perry and Mike Huckabee.

Unhappy With a Moderate Jeb Bush, Conservatives Aim to Unite Behind an Alternative

Fearing that Republicans will ultimately nominate an establishment ... Read More >>

Jeb Bush’s tricky path to an economic plan

One of Jeb Bush’s biggest challenges in the 2016 campaign will be to come up with a fresh economic plan that doesn’t make him seem like a tool of deep-pocketed Wall Street donors or the second coming of Mitt Romney, whose big, expensive tax cut plan failed to catch fire and left him wide open to populist attacks.