Posted on 05/13/2015 1:33:53 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
PPP's national Republican poll for May continues to find Scott Walker leading the field, but it's tightly clustered and his support has actually dropped two consecutive surveys now.
Walker's at 18% to 13% for Marco Rubio, 12% each for Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee, 11% for Jeb Bush, 10% for Ted Cruz, 9% for Rand Paul, 5% for Chris Christie, and 2% for Rick Perry. This is the third national poll in a row where we've found Walker ahead but he was at 25% in late February and declined to 20% and now 18% on the two subsequent surveys.
Two candidates have the clear momentum in the six weeks since we did our last national Republican poll: Marco Rubio and Mike Huckabee. In addition to being second place overall, Rubio is the most frequently named second choice of GOP voters at 15%. The 28% of Republicans who name him as either their first or second choice matches Walker for the top of the heap. His 13% represents a 7 point gain from his 6% standing in late March.
Huckabee's gained 6 points from the last national poll we did. His 58% favorability rating is the highest of the GOP field and his net +34 rating at 58/24 is tied with Rubio's at 56/22 to make him the most popular candidate.
Two other candidates clearly have their support headed in the wrong direction: Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz. Bush had been in 2nd at 17% and has now dropped to 5th at 11%. He continues to really struggle with voters identifying themselves as 'very conservative.' Just 5% support him for the nomination and his favorability with them is under water at 35/44. Bush actually leads the field with moderates at 24% but they only account for 21% of the primary electorate.
Ted Cruz's announcement bounce- which moved him up to 3rd place at 16% in late March- has worn off quickly. He's already back down to 10% and 6th place. Cruz actually leads the field with Tea Party voters at 25%- but he's at only 4% with non-Tea Partiers and at this point just 24% of Republican voters align themselves with that movement.
Rand Paul and Ben Carson both got little if any announcement bump. Paul was at 10% with a 49/30 favorability in late March and he's at 9% with a 48/29 favorability now. Carson's position is relatively unchanged too. On the previous poll he was at 10% with a 48/14 favorability, and now he's at 12% with a 54/18 favorability. He's at least seen improvement in his name recognition even if it hasn't shifted his overall standing much..... Continued
LOL! I don't trust any polls, and I wonder about the elections.
/johnny
Hillary just has to stonewall 18 more months and answer no more than 35 questions from softball lib media.
On the Democratic side Hillary Clinton leads with 63% to 13% for Bernie Sanders, 6% for Jim Webb, 5% for Lincoln Chafee, and 2% for Martin O'Malley. Clinton's over 60% with liberals, moderates, women, whites, African Americans, and seniors and is at least over 50% with men, Hispanics, and young voters. Sanders continues to be the clear second choice among Democratic voters- 28% name him as their first or second choice with no one else in the second tier exceeding 11% on that measure.
What if Cruz is really winning but the MSM lies about it to make those who were going to vote Cruz vote for Walker instead hoping to ensure that either Walker or Cruz takes it only to find Hillary Clinton as president elect the next day because they lied to split the ote on the two...
Yet another attempt to influence/steer support in the Republican primary by this ‘RAT polling organization.
What if Cruz is really winning but the MSM lies about it to make those who were going to vote Cruz vote for Walker instead hoping to ensure that either Walker or Cruz takes it only to find Hillary Clinton as president elect the next day because they lied to split the vote on the two...sorry I don’t trust the lying MSM ba$tards nowadays...
The unreported part of this poll, is the Democrat propensity to vote for the most Liberal of our candidates, in our nomination process.
Add in 15 to 25% of the Democrats crossing over to vote in our nomination process, and suddenly Bush as as much as a third of the delegate total all wrapped up.
This leaves the rest of our field at 5-10% each, and numerically eliminated.
This has worked very well in the past. Why change a thing if you’re the GOPe/RNC?
They’re going to get just what they want this time, just like they have in the last five general elections.
Hillary over 60%? Good grief.
Our country really is lost.
Funny how every poll I hear on TV touts Jeb Bush as leading. Might the gop-e be trying to pull a fast one, again?
If they asked random dummasses on the street,
Clinton or Walker,
more than 60% wouldn’t know who Walker even was.
Her biggest challenge will be to keep her stress down, cut way back on the booze, and not have another stroke.
I don’t see it happening because I do not think she is even remotely capable of sobriety. I foresee her health collapsing as we get close to the primaries.
And Huckabee and Carson supporters wonder why some get mad. Because they have no chacne at being president but a great chance at making Rubio or Bush the nominee.
Pulling a “fast one” is the only strategy the Establishment Republicans have.
They really can’t win it on issues alone. Either they won’t articulate the issues, or their position on those issues are virtually indistinguishable from that of liberal Democrats.
Uniparty strikes again.
In her own primary - not in a head to head matchup.
Which raises another issue. I’m not here to dump on Carson in particular, but a poll that seeks to convince me that he is more popular than Cruz, fails on that point alone.
I doubt even 5% of the Republican base knows who Carson is.
do any of the people who polled and support hillary know that she approves of Iran acquiring nuclear bombs that could eventually work there way here? wait till they find out that she sides withs Iran. then take a poll.
Is he for gun control? I wasn’t aware of that. I haven’t followed him closely.
I’ve seen these one dimensional populist guys pop up so often that I pretty much write them off from the get-go.
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