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Walker leads nationally in new poll
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leads a tight field of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a new survey from Public Policy Polling.
Walker is alone in first place in the poll with 17 percent, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 15 percent, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) at 13 percent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 12 percent and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 11 percent.
Read More >>What Tech Strategy Reveals About the Republican Top Tier
There may be no easier way to flummox operatives or journalists who insist on the importance of “data” and “analytics” in politics than asking them to explain exactly what the words mean to them. Today there is data generated by every arm of a campaign, and opportunities to analyze nearly all of it. Which of those challenges a campaign tries to take on with its limited time and resources can illuminate not only its technological fetishes but its view of the race: What innovations does it need to undertake to win?
Read More >>Clinton’s Top Rivals: Bush, Paul, Rubio
Head-to-head matchups between the top Democratic and Republican candidates don’t mean much this point, but they can provide some clues about which candidates have both sufficient national name recognition and positive perceptions at this point. Bloomberg Politics provides analysis of recent polls in three key “swing” states showing three Republicans, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and current U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, to be competitive with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:
Rubio, Bush, Paul Are Clinton’s Top Opponents ... Read More >>
Jeb Bush’s Surprising Struggle With Moderates
It was easy to see Jeb Bush’s path to the Republican nomination when he announced the formation of his super PAC in December. He wasn’t guaranteed to pull it off — not by any stretch — but he seemed well positioned to appeal to the coalition of party elites and blue-state voters that has allowed center-right establishment candidates to win the party’s last two contests.
Read More >>Marco Rubio is now at the top of the Republican presidential field
Look at any national poll on the 2016 Republican presidential race, and you will see somewhere between three and five candidates clumped at the “top” of the field — all winning somewhere between 9 and 14 percent. It’s fair, given that clumping, to conclude that the race lacks a front-runner.
Read More >>Uh oh: Clinton could lose Ohio big to Paul, Kasich
In a possible sign that President Obama’s political coattails aren’t long enough to help Democrat Hillary Clinton, a new Democratic poll shows that she would lose the key battleground state of Ohio big, potentially crushing her White House bid.
Read More >>NY Times Critical Coverage of Rubio Giving Him A Boost?
The New York Times has had two critical articles of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio in recent days, with one focusing on he and his wife’s traffic tickets over the past two decades and another on his personal finances. Both articles have been criticized and mocked extensively for their triviality, including by The Daily Show host John Stewart who had the following comments regarding the Times coverage, according to Politico:
The same Times report also found that Rubio used $100,000 from an ... Read More >>