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With just a handful of weeks until the Iowa Caucuses, the race for the Republican presidential nomination is entering the home stretch.

Here’s a look at the 13 candidates remaining in the Republican field - and their path to victory … or defeat.

One of the most fascinating developments of the already-amazing 2016 presidential election campaign has been the complete failure of two GOP candidates with a prior track record of attracting evangelical voters: former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

Donald Trump has 14-point lead in New Hampshire: poll

Billionaire businessman and GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump has a 14-point lead over his nearest Republican rival, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, in a new poll on the early state of New Hampshire.

Mr. Trump was at 29 percent in the survey from the Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling, with Mr. Rubio at 15 percent.

The latest poll out of New Hampshire shows Donald Trump maintaining a big lead, sitting at 29 percent a full 14 to 19 percent over Rubio, Cruz, Bush, Kasich, and Christie.

But those are just the headline numbers of the poll. If you really want to understand the significance of a poll, you can’t merely consume the headline numbers. You have to read a poll, and parse it.

Every­one already knows the struggle for con­trol of the White House will be the biggest do­mest­ic story of 2016. The cam­paign has already gen­er­ated re­cord tele­vi­sion rat­ings and vol­can­ic erup­tions of vit­ri­ol. By Novem­ber, it is likely to be­come the most ex­pens­ive polit­ic­al race ever. Already, it is un­like any cam­paign Amer­ic­ans have seen be­fore.

As first votes approach, it’s not just the Republican contenders that face the ultimate test, but their competing campaign strategies.

Voters don’t vote for strategy. But the competitive, unpredictable 2016 contest has put a premium on organization, voter turnout and political positioning.

Santorum and Huckabee, dragging in polls, take shots at Cruz

Both of them were underfunded. Both started in single digits and went on to win the Iowa caucuses over the same man, Mitt Romney. And with less than one month before Republican voters here make a decision, both former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum are in the doldrums and begging Republican voters to reject the new candidates who dominate headlines. The chief target is the man who kicks off a six-day, 36-county bus tour Monday morning: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.)