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Frontrunner angst: Bush lead evaporates, Clinton favorability hits 7-year low

After five months of forums, fundraising appearances and trips to the early states, the 2016 Republican nomination contest is as unsettled as ever, with no candidate receiving more than 11 percent support and seven candidates all within three points of one another, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

For politicians, there’s a complicated relationship between bad news and the polls. It works like this: Some sort of scandalous or negative story breaks in the media. The candidate tries to deal with it. In a day or two, a pollster asks the public about it, and there is little or no change in the candidate’s numbers. News accounts then report the scandalous or negative story has had no effect on the candidate.

Hillary sets venue for first big rally: Roosevelt Island

The solemn memorial park at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, Four Freedoms Park, will serve as the backdrop for Hillary Clinton’s first significant speech as a presidential candidate on June 13, when she is expected to lay out her vision for the future of the country and explain to voters why she is the right person to lead it there.

Hillary Clinton remains the overwhelming favorite among Iowa Democrats looking ahead to next year’s presidential caucuses, though Bernie Sanders has quickly risen as Elizabeth Warren’s proxy for the anti-establishment alternative.

Newsflash: It’s Going To Be Hillary vs. Jeb

As the children’s book says: Voters, it’s time to “Go the F*k to sleep.” You can turn off Fox, MSNBC, and CNN; you can close Twitter; you can sign off your crazy uncle’s Facebook feed.

Report: Cruz, Clinton resonate the most online

Of all the presidential contenders that have entered their names in the ring, Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz saw the most reaction from their campaign announcement speeches, a new report shows.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont began drawing implicit contrasts with Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday in the race for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, as he played the liberal purist in throwing down policy gauntlet after gauntlet – a $15 minimum wage, $1 trillion for public works jobs, a “Medicare-for-all” system of universal health care — in his first campaign rally since declaring his candidacy last month.