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National poll shows no clear GOP frontrunner

The Republican field for 2016 is growing increasingly top-heavy, with no clear front-runner emerging in the latest nationwide Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.

Dems hope for Cruz, fear Bush

Democrats are rooting for Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) to win the Republican presidential nomination, and Jeb Bush is the 2016 candidate they fear the most, according to a survey conducted by The Hill.

In interviews with more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers, former members and strategists, The Hill asked questions to gauge what Democrats think of the large Republican field.

His State to Lose

Photos of South Carolina’s most celebrated Republicans crowd every available inch of First Tuesday Strategies’ suite—framed on desks, stacked on countertops, pinned to corkboards along the wall. Here, in the offices of the state’s premier political firm, the operatives and fundraisers who run the GOP circuit display their allegiances to Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, and Jim DeMint. But there’s one man featured more prominently than anyone else: Marco Rubio.

No one will blame you if you can’t keep track of the Republican presidential field. It’s huge. If you count declared candidates, prospectives, and announced aspirants, you have 18 people from across the Republican ideological spectrum: Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum, Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. John Kasich, Gov. Rick Snyder, Gov. Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, George Pataki, Rick Perry, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. The field is so large that news networks have put limits on who can join the debates. Fox News, for example, will invite only candidates who placed in the top 10 of an average of national polls. Likewise, CNN will hold two debates: one for top-tier candidates, and one for the bottom tier. (One possible effect of this? Underdog candidates will pull every stunt they can to get onstage.)

Among older Republicans and those already paying close attention to the 2016 race, Marco Rubio’s a hit.

Seven in 10 Republicans or Republican-leaning independents who have thought “a lot” about the election hold favorable views of the GOP presidential contender, according to a new Pew survey. And 75 percent of seniors—those over 65—rated Rubio favorably.

Sen. Marco Rubio has signed Republican consultant Mike Slanker to lead his presidential campaign in Nevada, host of the fourth 2016 nominating contest and first out west.

Florida quietly sets up an epic 2016 primary clash

The campaign for the Republican presidential nomination may have a new expiration date: March 15.

That’s when Florida holds its primary contest – which will now be winner-take-all.