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And when will there be three?
You can take the results of the robo poll conducted by the Democratic outfit PPP with a big grain of salt. Nevertheless, the underlying analysis is correct:
Read More >>Trump actually ranks 8th out of the 12 candidates in New Hampshire in net favorability with only 49% of GOP voters seeing him favorably to 44% with a negative opinion.
USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings: Carson and Fiorina fading
2016 begins with some outsider candidates finding themselves out of the picture in USA TODAY’s weekly GOP Power Rankings.
Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina tallied their worst scores this week since we started this survey Sept. 1, asking 30 political experts who is the strongest candidate in the GOP field.
Read More >>Who might stop Trump from nomination win?
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.
Read More >>Bye-bye, Rick and Huck! Why GOP evangelicals deserted their old pals
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.
Read More >>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.
Read More >>PARSING THE POLLS: Trump’s precarious lead in New Hampshire
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.
Read More >>6 Questions That May Decide the 2016 Election
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.
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