Posted on 05/14/2015 2:38:35 PM PDT by VinL
Following a trio of Republican campaign announcements last week, Ben Carson leaps to the top spot of GOP presidential candidates in the latest Fox News poll tied with presumed GOP front-runner Jeb Bush.
Carson, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee all entered the race for the Republican nomination early last week, but none has seen as dramatic a bump as the retired neurosurgeon. Carson Touts Candor As A Plus For His GOP Presidential Bid
Both Bush and Carson sit atop the Fox poll at 13 percent each among Republican primary voters. That's a seven-point bounce for Carson who was at just 6 percent in the same poll in April.
The poll comes amid Bush's shifting statements on whether he would have authorized the Iraq War. Being tied to the unpopular war, launched by his older brother President George. W. Bush, would be a potential liability to the former Florida governor's yet-to-be-launched bid for the Oval Office. Jeb Bush walked back his position that he would have authorized the Iraq War, even knowing what we know now. He now says he would not have. It's All Politics Jeb Bush Fully Walks Back: 'I Would Not Have Gone Into Iraq'
This issue, however, likely had little impact on the Fox poll, which wrapped its surveying of respondents Tuesday, just a day after his interview with Fox's Megyn Kelly, in which he said he would have authorized the war even knowing what we know now. He reversed that stance Thursday.
Carson is largely unknown among all respondents – 49 percent said they had "never heard of" the retired pediatric neurosurgeon. Still, he was viewed more favorably than not among those who had heard of him by a 26 to 16 percent margin.
Meanwhile, it's the opposite for Bush. Only 9 percent had never heard of him, but he's viewed more negatively than positively by a 44 to 37 percent margin.
Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich were even less known among all voters with 58 percent saying they did not know or were unsure of Fiorina and 63 percent saying so of Kasich. Kasich has yet to announce whether he will make a run for the White House in 2016.
Rounding out the top five presidential nominees likely Republican primary voters would endorse were Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (11 percent), Huckabee (10 percent) and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (9 percent). Of this group, only Walker has not officially gotten in the race, but it is widely anticipated he will. Of those surveyed, 46 percent say they have not heard of Scott Walker.
Huckabee was the top second-choice pick for Republican voters (11 percent) followed by Bush, Paul and Cruz (all with 10 percent).
The question must have been hilarious...
At best, the Secretary of Health and Human Services under a Ted Cruz administration responsible for helping the slow but hopefully sure transition away from Obamacare into true healthcare reform.
Born September 18, 1951 in Detroit, MI (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Robert Solomon Carson, born in GA
Sonya Copeland, born in GA
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Ben Carson is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
I’m suspecting some Democrat mischief in these polls, not that polls this far out mean anything.
Look at the bright side. All the midgets who get their world-view from NPR and think they know what's going on, actually think Carson is in the lead among those mysterious Republicans who share America with them!
{^)
Hey, I remember when everybody on the right bought into Hillary Phobia in 2007, and assumed she was going to be the nominee. Republicans were so busy wasting time trying to outguess Hillary, that Obama snuck up and bit them in the patoot. So it isn't like only dimwit NPR folks perceive a badly distorted reality as a direct result of wrong information dispersed by the MSM.
Well it’s all over now.
Rovio seems to have been the sauce a bit too much
As if enough white politicians haven't p**d in the pool down through the years?
agree..seems to be a nice guy but certainly not presidential.
I will be voting for the only real conservative in this race, Ted Cruz—or nobody at all.
~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~
Who are they polling? And what’s next, a poll showing Grahamnesty lapping the field?
They sure have, but Obama also took a dump in the pool.
Obama has completely ruined race relations, the feral tribes and other Black leaders have helped to muck it up even more.
If this country ever sees another Black in the White Hose, it will be many generations in the future.
Whites did not do this, Obama did.
The poll was done NOT by NPR!
It was done by FOX NEWS......fair and balanced!
Dr Ben Carson has accomplished more n life than most politicians running for president. JFK, Nixon, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Bushes, were all seasoned politicians. It proves unambiguously that politicians are not always good for the country.
If Senator Cruz came out for deporting all illegals, I would be happy to vote for him. Unfortunately he wants to keep MOST illegals in the country by giving them legal status.
I’m surprised your comment is still up; I wrote something similar on a related thread some time ago. The comment was deleted.
No he doesn’t. Do further research.
~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race.
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