Posted on 12/22/2015 10:31:20 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There’s quite a 45th birthday present for Ted Cruz in today’s Quinnipiac University national poll of Republican primary voters. The Texas Senator is up 8 points since last month’s survey and has closed the gap on frontrunner Donald Trump to just 4 points.
The poll, the first reliable national survey taken since last week’s GOP debate, shows the race substantially closer than a round of pre-debate surveys. It also reinforces that Cruz has been the major beneficiary of the deflation of Ben Carson’s brief poll surge.
And it’s no mystery why. Forty percent of Republican voters said Cruz did the best job in the debate.
The third viable competitor for the nomination, Marco Rubio, actually lost ground in the poll. It was perhaps due in part to a bump in support for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who moved into fourth place with 6 points.
Jeb and the rest - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who has been Rubio’s harshest critic, remained essentially unchanged from last month at 4 percent, despite an attack-dog debate effort on Trump. It’s not a statistically significant gap with Christie, but when we look deeper, we see why this poll is not the way Bushworld wanted to close out 2015. With Bush’s continuing poor performance in Florida and his status in the Q poll as the least liked Republican in his own party and the least popular presidential candidate among both parties, this is not a rally. For Bush and everybody else: Lindsey Graham has gone ahead and is preparing a place for you…
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When’s the national primary?
March 1st.
Nope. There is no national primary.
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