Posted on 07/16/2015 12:15:30 PM PDT by jimbo123
PPP's newest Virginia poll finds Jeb Bush leading the Republican primary field in the state with 18%, followed by Donald Trump and Scott Walker at 14%, and Ben Carson also in double digits at 10%. Rounding out the top ten that's become important in the context of the upcoming debates are Mike Huckabee at 8%, Marco Rubio at 7%, and Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, and Rand Paul at 5%. Missing the cut for the top ten are Bobby Jindal at 3%, Rick Perry at 2%, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich, and Rick Santorum at 1%, and George Pataki at less than 1%.
Bush's lead in Virginia reflects the general strength we've found for him in the South. Although the polls were conducted prior to Trump's recent surge he led our most recent Florida and South Carolina polls, and he'd been ahead on our previous two North Carolina surveys before we found Trump leading there last week. Bush's lead over Trump and Walker in Virginia is based on his appeal to moderate voters- with them he gets 30% compared to only 12% for Trump and 9% for Walker. That helps make up for Bush's deficit among voters who describe themselves as 'very conservative' where he gets 12% compared to 15% for Trump and Walker.
Despite leading in Virginia, Bush continues to struggle some with middling favorability ratings- only 41% of primary voters see him positively to 37% with a negative opinion. Rubio (58/20) and Trump (58/32) have the highest favorability ratings of the Republicans in the state trailed closely by Huckabee (57/27) and Walker (56/16).
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Go away, Jeb.
Doesn’t matter, both Bush and Hillary are one and the same. Flush them both.
BULL Sperm being injected in copious amounts..
The polling is almost always wrong. At this stage of American politics, I think polling has become little more than a mix of a waste of time and political warfare. Even if it were valid (it isn’t) it often changes a WEEK before an election. So what do you think it will do more than a YEAR before the election. EVERYONE is still in the running.
At this point, who cares? The more interesting poll is the one in which only 39% find Hillary “trustworthy”, while a majority don’t trust her.
VA is a lost cause in 2016. The PIAPS is going to win every vote from single or educated women in NoVa.
PPP is a Dem polling operation. They would love to have Jeb be the GOP nominee.
PPP seems to be concerned that Jeb isn’t doing that well in Virginia. And their Hillary vs. Jeb poll is registered voters, not likely voters.
The rest of Virginia needs to kick Fairfax out of the Commonwealth.
Although the polls were conducted prior to Trump’s recent surge
I'm all for that. That county is killing the rest of the state.
No one likes Bush or Clinton but they are always ahead in the polls!
Skewed by all the gubbermint wonks living in No VA
We’re also talking about these “leads” with the candidate being in the teens percentage wise. Meaningless, as even the tiniest shift could move even the bottom tier into the top tier with those kinds of numbers.
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