Posted on 05/28/2015 9:12:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Marco Rubio skidded. Jeb Bush slid. Ben Carson zoomed. Mike Huckabee bounced. Scott Walker stayed steady. And that’s how you end up with a five-way tie for first place in the latest Quinnipiac University national poll on the GOP Sixteeners. Put another way: With five candidates evenly dividing half of the vote, there is no first place. While Rubio lost a third of his support and Bush continued to droop, losing three points for the second month in a row, all five can say with confidence that they will meet the polling criterion for the first GOP debate, hosted by Fox News and Facebook on Aug. 6 in Cleveland.
Aside from having filed as candidates – including required financial disclosures – and paid their candidate filing fees, a candidate must be among the top ten in the average of five methodologically sound national polls taken before the debate. Huckabee, Bush, Carson and Rubio may be sowing some volatility, but they can expect to be there with Walker on the big day.
But the real drama right now is about the bottom, not the top. Quinnipiac looks at the back half of the pack: “Rounding out the top 10 for televised debates are U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky at 7 percent, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 6 percent, Donald Trump at 5 percent, New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie at 4 percent and Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 2 percent each.”
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I am glad Fiorina is in there. I want to hear more of what she has to say, but I think they will have to pass out garlic if Trump is there, LOL
I know Carly is in S Carolina, giving Hildebeast some headaches. They are complaining about Carly stalking the former Secretary of State... LOL. And the other GOPs there like Carson aren’t stalking?
The same goes for Ben. I would prefer both of them and anyone else considering a run for president to have actually won an election before for something before we make them our nominee.
Planning to give my first donation of the cycle to Carly. Heard her speak at a Federalist Society event in the fall and have been in love ever since. I’m not ready to predict her nomination but I want her voice to continue through next spring.
I am still wondering why we have so many people running?
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