The Washington Post conducted a poll of American adults (not registered voters or likely voters, it’s worth noting) on the 2016 potential candidates. There aren’t many surprises, but there are a few interesting bits of information. Some excerpts:
Poll: Bush now tops GOP field; Clinton runs ahead of all Republicans
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush now leads the field of Republican candidates for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination, but former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton enjoys a decided advantage over Bush ... Read More >>
Rick Santorum is considering a comeback presidential bid in 2016. But his vintage sweater vest is mulling retirement.
The former Pennsylvania senator says his teenage daughters are now the arbiters of his fashion choices and “are particular about how their dad decides to leave the house.”
But so, too, are his political advisers who, while they might agree that sweater vest isn’t exactly the new black, are more interested in getting the likely candidate to appear less hokey and more presidential-like a candidate who won 11 primary states last time around.
Read More >>President Barack Obama has a “quasi-religious” zeal to close down coal-burning power plants, past and potential Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Thursday.
The former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania was in Raleigh to speak to conservative groups and dropped by the state Legislature for an impromptu talk. He said he’ll decide by early summer whether to run for president in 2016 as he did in 2012.
Santorum criticized the Obama administration’s regulations aimed at reducing power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants, which was part of a case heard in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Read More >>Phillip Bump has an intriguing analysis of the 2016 GOP nomination battle over at the Washington Post, arguing there are basically five ‘lanes’ in the contest that the different candidates are competing in. Huckabee and Santorum, for example, are seen as the two candidates expected to challenge each other for dominance in the ‘Evangelical’ lane (although others will certainly try to grab some of that vote as well).
The 2016 GOP presidential race, broken down into 5 ‘lanes’
Ted Cruz, we argued ... Read More >>