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Non-confrontational style, social media aiding Ben Carson’s surge in polls
When Thomas Bouwsma’s wife Patty was pregnant with their sixth child 11 years ago, they had a chance to meet Ben Carson at a community college in Grand Rapids.
Read More >>Ben Carson has highest net favorability in 2016 GOP field; Donald Trump’s numbers jump up: Gallup
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has the highest net favorability of the 17 major GOP candidates running for president in 2016 among Republicans, with rival Donald Trump seeing the biggest increase over the past few weeks, according to survey results released Friday.
Read More >>Poll: Carson tops Trump in head-to-head GOP matchup
Donald Trump dominates the new Monmouth national poll of the Republican presidential race — in every category except one.
Trump leads the horse race, with 30 percent, to Ben Carson’s 18 percent, with Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz tied for third at 8 percent.
Read More >>Three strategies for Trump’s GOP rivals
Donald Trump has built a bigger, more enduring lead in the polls than nearly anyone expected. He’s also upended the race for the Republican presidential nomination in another way: almost all the other candidates can be defined by their reactions to Trump.
Read More >>A Fellow Outsider, Ben Carson Rivals Donald Trump in Polls, if Not in Pomp
The spotlight rarely found Ben Carson this summer. While other presidential candidates shot flaming arrows at rivals and sometimes the news media, the soft-spoken Mr. Carson seemed to struggle to be noticed. “Well, thank you,” he told moderators in the first Republican debate. “I wasn’t sure if I would get to speak again.”
Read More >>How Iowa’s premier pollster sees the 2016 race shaking out
The release of new Iowa poll numbers by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics is one of the few stop-what-you-are-doing-and-see-what-they-say moments left in politics. The woman behind the poll, which gets Iowa right every time, is Ann Selzer. After the new Register numbers came out Saturday night, I reached out to Ann to see if she might expand on a few questions I had about the poll.
Read More >>Can Trump’s Fellow Outsiders Top Him?
Businessman Donald Trump’s rise to the top of the polls is surprising to many, but there is recent precedent for an outsider to take the early lead well before the first caucus or primary. Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain led the Republican field for most of October 2011 and held that lead through early November before fading and ultimately dropping out. History suggests there is an interest among Republicans in supporting a nontraditional candidate without the normal experience of ... Read More >>