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29 Days Left - The State of the Caucus Race

If you are into politics, there will be no better place to be for the next month than the state of Iowa. The holidays are over. The Hawkeye football season is over. We love college basketball, and while conference play is upon us, it doesn’t get serious until March. For the next 30 days, the Iowa Caucuses will take center stage and dominate discussions and news coverage around the state.

Jeb Bush picked up more support for his presidential campaign in South Carolina on Thursday, signing up more than a dozen military veterans in the state and collecting another member of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s national security coalition.

Bush and Christie battle to be ‘the last governor standing’ in N.H.

The fight for a ticket out of New Hampshire is taking on more urgency. Two of the three governors for whom the state is a do-or-die proposition — former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — are racheting up their attacks on each other in a fight to be “the last governor standing,” in the words of one Christie ally.

Gallup: Jeb Bush’s favorability numbers plummet

Jeb Bush’s net favorability with Republicans has tanked since July, going down 28 points according to a new Gallup poll out Friday.

The former Florida governor, who was once his party’s presumed front-runner, had a net favorability of +27 in July, but in the newest poll it is -1.

Insiders: Clinton and Cruz aren’t sure bets in Iowa

Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz are poised to win the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses — but haven’t yet locked the state down. And Donald Trump has the edge among Republicans in the three other states that will vote next month, including a commanding advantage in New Hampshire.

Bush, Rubio Poised to Gain Critical S.C. Endorsement?

While the focus for the next month is likely to be almost exclusively on the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, a few news items this morning out of the Palmetto State suggest the third contest of the 2016 nomination process could be just as important as the first two.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who recently dropped out of the race, sits at the head of a well-regarded political machine, and his endorsement could provide a much-needed boost to anybody ... Read More >>

And when will there be three?

You can take the results of the robo poll conducted by the Democratic outfit PPP with a big grain of salt. Nevertheless, the underlying analysis is correct:

Trump actually ranks 8th out of the 12 candidates in New Hampshire in net favorability with only 49% of GOP voters seeing him favorably to 44% with a negative opinion.