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Straw poll: Rand Paul tops among Mich. GOP activists

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul won the presidential straw poll at this weekend’s Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, capturing 22 percent of the vote among a field of 16 candidates.

Carly Fiorina poll surge has Hillary Clinton scrambling to shed ‘insider’ label

Carly Fiorina’s strong performance in last week’s Republican presidential primary debate has rocketed her up the polls, leaving the top of the GOP field dominated by Washington outsiders and forcing Democrats — especially Hillary Rodham Clinton — scrambling to shed the label of political insider.

Carly Fiorina shot into second place in the Republican presidential field on the heels of another strong debate performance, and Donald Trump has lost some support, a new national CNN/ORC poll shows.

Rubio avoids Cruz’s Planned Parenthood-shutdown push

Many of the Republican candidates on the debate stage Wednesday night joined in a full-throated endorsement of Ted Cruz’s damn-the-torpedoes strategy to defund Planned Parenthood, even if it means shutting down the federal government.

But two candidates who’ll soon be casting votes on the matter were noticeably silent: Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul.

GOP contenders likely can ride campaign cash to primaries, wait on Trump to fade

As entertaining as the presidential debates may be, they are not likely to winnow the GOP field of any of the major candidates, say campaign strategists and analysts who say as long as the top-tier contenders have enough money, they’ll be able to last at least until the first votes are cast in Iowa’s caucuses and New Hampshire’s primaries.

The media are full of reviews of last night’s debates, declaring some candidates winners or losers or assessing whether they did what they needed. Much of the attention is focused on businesswoman Carly Fiorina, who seems by most accounts to be the evening’s winner, as this Bloomberg View article suggests:

Carly the Conqueror

No candidate took the stage with a greater opportunity, or higher expectations, than Carly Fiorina. That she proceeded to steal the show was the insta-conventional wisdom—and, in this case, ... Read More >>

CARLY, CHRISTIE AND MARCO. In that order.

Carly Fiorina became a big player in the GOP presidential field as a result of her performance in Wednesday night’s debate.