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How GOP campaigns are strategizing for Super Tuesday’s delegate bonanza

Ben Carson journeyed here last week to the buckle of the Bible Belt, where he proclaimed the United States a “Judeo-Christian nation” and delivered a stern warning to his devoted followers: Show up at the polls March 1 or face consequences.

Ben Carson’s campaign doesn’t think it can win over the majority of African-American voters, but it does think it can lure enough of them to beat Hillary Clinton.

Though President Barack Obama won 93 percent of the black vote in 2012, Carson is betting he can lead a significant portion of that demographic back to the party of Abraham Lincoln.

Carson fades in polls amid tough scrutiny

Weeks of tough scrutiny are beginning to take a toll: Ben Carson appears to be fading in Iowa, and there are signs he may be hitting the wall in other early states.

A CBS/YouGov poll released Sunday showed Carson slipping below 20 percent in Iowa and to third place behind Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — the first time he’s had a rating of less than 20 percent in a major poll there since September.

Poll: Ted Cruz pulls even with Donald Trump in Iowa

Ted Cruz, buoyed by tea party support and the backing of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, has surged to a virtual tie with Donald Trump in the first caucus state of Iowa, according to the results of a Quinnipiac University poll surveying likely Republican caucus-goers released Tuesday.

A ranking of GOP presidential candidates who can still make a case

For all the candidates, all the debates and all the unpredictability, the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 has taken a clear shape over the past month or so.

There is a four-candidate top tier that has separated itself from the rest of the pack.

With the first votes of the 2016 presidential race a little more than two months away, Donald Trump is showing renewed support among likely Republican voters after the Islamic State attacks in Paris gave him a chance to showcase a “tough on terror ” message.