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Walker leads nationally in new poll
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leads a tight field of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a new survey from Public Policy Polling.
Walker is alone in first place in the poll with 17 percent, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 15 percent, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) at 13 percent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 12 percent and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 11 percent.
Read More >>Clinton’s Top Rivals: Bush, Paul, Rubio
Head-to-head matchups between the top Democratic and Republican candidates don’t mean much this point, but they can provide some clues about which candidates have both sufficient national name recognition and positive perceptions at this point. Bloomberg Politics provides analysis of recent polls in three key “swing” states showing three Republicans, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and current U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, to be competitive with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:
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The Iowa straw poll is dead: 7 reasons that matters
If you build it, it turns out that they will not necessarily come.
The Republican Party of Iowa reluctantly but unanimously voted Friday to kill its August straw poll.
Read More >>Uh oh: Clinton could lose Ohio big to Paul, Kasich
In a possible sign that President Obama’s political coattails aren’t long enough to help Democrat Hillary Clinton, a new Democratic poll shows that she would lose the key battleground state of Ohio big, potentially crushing her White House bid.
Read More >>Ted Cruz’s Analytics-Driven Plan to Steal the Libertarian Vote from Rand
Ted Cruz needs to pick off enough libertarian votes to hobble Rand Paul, and his data-analytics team thinks it has identified a way to begin to do so.
Read More >>Hotline’s GOP Presidential Power Rankings: Walker on Top
It’s time for a change at the top. Jeb Bush has topped each edition of Hotline’s GOP presidential power rankings until now, but we’ve said all along that there was no true frontrunner this primary season, unlike some in the past.
Read More >>GOP hopefuls fight for post-launch poll bounce
Republican presidential candidates entering one of the most crowded primary races in recent history are hoping to get a big bounce from their campaign launches.
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