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Kasich makes quick rise in polls

It could have been embarrassing: The sitting governor of Ohio left off the primetime Fox News debate stage in his home state because of low poll numbers.

Jeb Bush retakes the top spot for the GOP nomination once again in our August rankings, but not because he’s the candidate who has dominated the conversation since we last ranked the field in early June.

Debate standings: Perry in 11th place

Chris Christie, John Kasich and Rick Perry are fighting for the last two spots on the debate stage — and after a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll Sunday morning, Perry is still most in danger of failing to qualify.

14 GOP candidates not named Donald Trump will participate in the same event tonight. Here’s what to watch.

Fourteen of the 17 major Republican candidates for president plan to participate in a candidate forum in New Hampshire Monday night, giving voters an early glimpse of most of the packed field in the same setting.

Republicans see opportunities with a changing – and skeptical – black electorate

Cleveland was no place to be a Republican on Nov. 6, 2012. It started out well: The Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan presidential ticket made a surprise Election Day fly-in, thanks to internal polling that had the campaign thinking that it would take Ohio, and the White House. Then the votes came in, and Rob Frost, chairman of the Cuyahoga County Republican Party, watched precinct after precinct build President Obama’s lead. The historic lines of black voters, bent around city blocks, had made the difference.

New Poll Results Answer Key Questions

The Quinnipiac University national poll released this morning seems to answer, for now at least, the question of whether businessman Donald Trump can maintain his strong position in the polls despite recent inflammatory comments:

Donald Trump surges, Jeb Bush slumps in new national poll

Donald Trump leads the GOP presidential field by a significant margin, according to a new Quinnipiac University national poll released Thursday….

Fully 20 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters said they would vote for Trump if the primary were ... Read More >>

Kasich in, Perry out, and Trump Trump Trump: The latest on next week’s debate

Congratulations to Governor John; sorry about your luck Governor Rick. With the release of new national poll numbers from Quinnipiac University this morning, we have a new top 10 — the threshold for a slot in next week’s first GOP debate — for only the second time since May.