You are looking at this strictly from a perspective of polls and media hype. There has not been one Primary yet nor one vote cast. I suspect any voters who know of Hunter are very impressed with him. The ones that don't know of him, soon will, because I am going to tell them. None of the candidates in the so-called top tier can even begin to compete with Hunter in regard to qualifications, experience and past action on the issues of which they can only offer rhetoric. When it is all over, for better or worse, I can say I fought for the principles and ideas of conservatism and did not waver. You can tell everyone you quoted some poll numbers because you bought into the media hype.
Why do campaigns run polls?....... are they also fakes?
I agree that polls aren’t the definitive answer but they do give indications of where the public is at any given time. They will change and fluctuate over time but if the same group or people keep coming out on top then they most likely are the ones on top.