Posted on 10/02/2013 12:54:47 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) narrowly leads the pack of potential GOP contenders in 2016, according to a new poll.
If the GOP presidential primary were held today, 17 percent of GOP voters would elect Paul, according to a new Quinnipiac Poll released Wednesday. He leads among Tea Party Republicans as well, with 22 percent.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie rates second with 13 percent, followed by Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) with 12 percent and Jeb Bush with 11 percent. Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) garner 10 percent. Nineteen percent of Republicans are undecided.
Rubio’s numbers have dropped 7 percent since an April survey.
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Enjoy your (short) stay.
HAHA, Christie beats Cruz by 3% even after that all night speech. Who did they poll?
He failed to quote this part...
The numbers contrast with a Democratic affiliated Public Policy Polling survey released last week that showed Cruz surging after his 21-hour floor speech against ObamaCare. Cruz closely trails Paul among Tea Party voters, taking 20 percent.
you just joined FR t0day? congrats and LOL
Cruz will kick his arse newb!
The article fails to quote when the poll was taken. It was Monday through Sunday last week, so about half was before Cruz’ filibuser.
From September 23 - 29, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,497 registered voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones.
Bull shiite muslim. The top 4 are non-starters and I won’t vote for any of them.
IBTZ.
So you're hyping an individual who has this to say about Zero in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 18, 2013:
"And I think what a tragedy it would it would have been if he [Obama] had gone to prison. What a tragedy it would have been that America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader."
Free Republic is a pro-God, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-military site for Conservative activism. It's not a forum for surrender monkeys and Obama defenders.
Well done.
Paul and Cruz blow everyone else out of the water. The GOP is finished as a viable political party if they nominate anyone else.
Who takes these polls, and where? Time for them to get off the East Coast!
Go Bush!
(just kidding.....)
I would take either one of them over Obama or Hillary.
I’ll be voting for Ted Cruz, not a cartoon.
So tell us noobe, do you like Gladiator movies?
IBTZ.
IMHO this describes the political philosophy of both Paul and Cruz. Any differences are minor in comparison, We would be blessed to have either one as POTUS.
Jeb Bush? A sentence from Eric Cartman comes to mind that involves round things....
Me too... the newb just irritated me.
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Just where does Obama-apologist Rand Paul stand on that core principle of Conservatism? Like father, like son or does the younger Paul support a strong offense?
Paul is one of the 80% republicans that Reagan talked about and I could work with him. Cruz is the Gold Standard.
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