Dude, I know polling. But if you think that Huck, Rand and Jeb are the top three Republicans, then please, I have some water front land I’d like to sell you.
And Pew is from my neck of the woods...I know about these people. They have no legitimate reason to do a Republican poll. They are partisan hacks, period, for the Democrats.
I don’t see anyplace on that poll whether these are likely voters. In general, these polls ask an “approval” question, and because of it being an open poll and not of likely voters, it is really a positive recognition poll. Huck has had a tv show for years now, and he is positively received.
However, I’d be interested more in a hard question put to likely voters: “Which republican candidate would you prefer to be president?” Offer no names and make it open-ended.