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Clinton leads 2016 poll in Iowa, But Rand Paul is Close (Rubio Fading In Iowa, 19 Points Down)
Christian Science Monitor ^ | May 25, 2013 | By David Clark Scott

Posted on 05/25/2013 7:04:45 PM PDT by drewh

As far as the pollsters are concerned, the 2016 race is underway. And Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is certainly acting like he's in the race.

The latest poll out of Iowa has former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton beating Florida Sen. Marco Rubio handily (48 vs. 37 percent), but could face a tougher race against Senator Paul (46 vs. 42 percent), according to a new poll by Quinnipiac University.

The poll says that Iowa voters would give the race to either Senator Rubio or Senator Paul, if the Democratic Party candidate was Vice President Joe Biden.

"In general Sen. Paul appears to be the better GOP candidate at this point in Iowa. Part of the reason may be the publicity from his recent high-profile visit to the state, but more likely is that he begins with a solid base of support - the folks who voted for his father in the 2008 and 2012 caucuses."

As The Christian Science Monitor reported, Rand Paul was in Iowa two weeks ago, and was popular among Republicans.

In a recent survey of [only] the registered Republican voters in Iowa, Paul won 39 percent of the vote with Marco Rubio next in line at just 20 percent. (Among Democrats, Hillary Clinton won 43 percent with Vice President Joe Biden winning 27 percent.) Earlier this year, Paul won a straw poll vote at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

At a Monitor-sponsored press gathering last month, Paul said he would not decide whether to run before 2014. Meanwhile, he’s just unique enough among the GOP field – and just different enough from his father – to keep drawing attention.

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016polls; benghazi; clintonglobalist; hillary2016; ia2016; paul2016; saudi
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To: drewh
I will not vote for any man or woman who votes for amnesty and against the repeal of 0care. RUBIO has joined the ranks of RINOS like cry baby. SELL OUTS!

At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Franklin was queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention, a lady asked Dr. Franklin “Well Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy.” Franklin replied, “A republic . . . if you can keep it.”

To honor the memories of the over a million men and women who gave the last full measure of devotion to keep this country a Republic, all of us must be as strong and wise as our Founding Fathers, or we will lose the Republic our Founders gave us, the only one in the world to the Marxist, Socialist and Communist that infest our congress and WH

Donna Fargo- "Battle hymn of the Republic"

81 posted on 05/25/2013 9:52:49 PM PDT by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: txrangerette

I never said they did. I said they support Rubio.


82 posted on 05/26/2013 4:15:39 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Just for what it’s worth, I would bet that Rush and Levin will sour on Rubio if he keeps pushing his plan. It doesn’t mean that they have to condemn him to hell.


83 posted on 05/26/2013 6:30:23 AM PDT by bramps (Sarah Palin got more votes in 2008 than Mitt Romney got in 2012)
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To: FatherofFive

IMHO, one aspect of the big DC immigration push was to take-out Rubio by making him unpalatable to the Republican base.


84 posted on 05/26/2013 6:51:56 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: FatherofFive
Ted Cruz seems like the real deal

And he's the smartest guy in any room. I hope he runs. But if it's Rand vs Rubio, or Jeb, or The Blob, I won't hesitate to vote for Paul.

85 posted on 05/26/2013 6:57:39 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Arm_Bears
to take-out Rubio by making him unpalatable to the Republican base

This was self inflicted. But I'm glad he exposed himself before he went too far.

86 posted on 05/26/2013 7:25:57 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: drewh
Who are potential Democrat presidential candidates? They have no decent human beings or successful pols?

Andrew Cuomo?

87 posted on 05/26/2013 11:24:46 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: bramps

Yes. Just because their good friend is trying to destroy the country by throwing open the borders, increasing the debt exponentially, driving the wages of people through the floor, increasing the level of crime, slapping the faces of legal immigrants, ensuring the political dynasty of the Democrat Party and a few hundred other equally beneficial things, we wouldn’t want to resort to harsh language or a strongly worded letter.

Rubio deserves to be at minimum run out of the political right, not praised as a conservative by supposed conservatives. If you think that we should accept his ‘good friends’ and their top 2 rated talk shows just driving the country left with the acceptance of the above, and promoting the guy promoting it, I really don’t know what to tell you that doesn’t involve harsh language of my own.


88 posted on 05/26/2013 1:38:25 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: FatherofFive
I don't know what Rubio started smoking, but he is dead now.

Iowa is not necessarily a reliable barometer for determining who the party nominee will eventually be...

89 posted on 05/26/2013 4:29:47 PM PDT by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: drewh
" Christie is still the dark horse, he will wait and stalk Paul/Rubio and try to steal the nomination at the last minute. "

Fat chance. :)

91 posted on 05/26/2013 4:49:18 PM PDT by OKSooner
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To: Perdogg; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; GOPsterinMA; ...

She certainly has no where to go but down.

And she’ll look like a full on corpse in another few years.

In other news Scott Walker visited Iowa.


92 posted on 05/26/2013 5:19:20 PM PDT by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I was going to let it go unanswered, but since you seem so righteous about the subject, please (again) tell me who you supported in the 2012 primary and send any old link clearly stating their rock solid anti-amnesty stance. Thank you.


93 posted on 05/26/2013 5:23:35 PM PDT by bramps (Sarah Palin got more votes in 2008 than Mitt Romney got in 2012)
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To: drewh

The “democracy” in IA didn’t get to send their bill off in 1992 because of Harkin as a placeholder. They will want to be sure to be there to push Hillary to the nod in 2016; nothing can stop the IA “democracy”. It means business!


94 posted on 05/26/2013 5:54:57 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Impy

Well to paraphrase that old senator Roman L. Hruska, R-NE, “even corpses need a little representation too.” I think he said that in 1970 when Judge Carswell, a Supreme Court nominee, was called “mediocre”, and Hruska said even the “mediocre need representation.”


95 posted on 05/26/2013 6:01:04 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: bramps

I don’t know about Norm, but I supported Santorum even after he pulled out and had embarrassed himself with his premature endorsement of “Trayvon.” I just voted for him as a placeholder against Romney; then for Romney in the fall.


96 posted on 05/26/2013 6:02:51 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Theodore R.

Given how Roberts was able to outsmart himself on Osamacare I’m thinking Hruska was right, we could do with a mediocre SC Justice as long as he was a conservative.


97 posted on 05/26/2013 6:03:56 PM PDT by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: bramps

Again, Who I voted for does not matter. And it’s not righteous. It’s simply ‘right’.


98 posted on 05/27/2013 4:29:44 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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