Posted on 02/27/2015 3:47:14 PM PST by entropy12
After a well-received January appearance before a high-profile gathering of conservatives there, and several recent scraps with reporters, the new Quinnipiac University Poll put Walker, the Wisconsin governor, at 25 percent among likely participants in next year's Iowa Republican caucus. That total was nearly twice as much as the second-place finisher, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul who drew 13 percent. Former Arkansas Gov. and 2008 caucus winner Mike Huckabee (at 11 percent), fiery surgeon Ben Carson (also 11 percent), and former Florida Gov Jeb Bush (10 percent) were the only other candidates who attracted backing from more than five percent of likely caucus-goers.
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Shocking, considering how well the moderate candidates have done for the GOP in the last 25 yrs of presidential elections.
I like him, but "fiery?" More like cool, measured, dispassionate, etc.
I am sure GOP voters have figured out mild mannered country club republican are no match for the hard fighting democrats.
I’d vote for Scott Walker.
Remember when Rick Perry was the shoe in? Then came the debates.
Ronny is wacko left wing pathological liar which makes him a good Dem propagandist!
Rubio claims to have learned his lesson and is probably the most articulate, but certainly seems very tense.
Carly Fiorina is FABULOUS and an intellectual with common sense, who also seems VERY comfortable in her own skin while playing ball with the big boys. She really WANTS to take on Hillary, and can.
Let's hope she stays in for a long time haul to keep the coals burning for Hillary in a way that the boys can't, don't and won't. Yikes!
Definitely better than Romney but we love Newt. We voted for Newt in the primary in 2012. Even with all his baggage he would have been a good President.
I will end up voting for whoever gets the GOP nomination with the exception of Bush/Christie. Any of the other possible candidates Walker, Cruz(My favorite but I think he may decide not to run) Perry, Paul, Fiorina, or even Trump I would have no problem voting for. We have to get rid of the Dems/commies.
What Walker needs to do is push back at the media’s “gotcha” efforts - make THEM look like the bullies they are - and defend his record. Above all, avoid the “deer in the headlights look.”
Walker is not my first choice but I’ll support him.
I will never vote for Jeb or Cristy.
Anyone who wants to play the “Hillary Boogieman” card can sit down, shut up and keep eating the crap sandwiches they’re trying to force on the rest of us.
And Walker’s opponent would be Clinton if the Quinnipiac Iowa Democratic poll is accurate.
Clinton by 42% over Warren at 19%.
This far ahead of the 2008 election, Giuliani and Clinton were slam dunks.
Yep and if you look at the polling data there are large percentages that
“don’t know enough” about most of the candidates on the list. So it to
some extent it is name recognition driving the results at this stage.
Anyone want to bet that if Hillary’s the Dem nominee that Time will never run a close-in, in-your-face portrait like they (or Newsweek?) did with Palin? We KNOW that won’t happen. Any reference to Hillary’s age or looks will be verboten.
All gotcha questions need to be responded to with ridicule and impugning the motives of the questioner.
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