Do you realize how inexpensive real estate is here, compared to there?
Posted on 04/15/2015 12:17:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A new poll published by Public Policy Polling shows Florida Republicans Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio need to do a lot of work to become competitive in New Hampshire, the site of the first Republican Presidential Primary election next January.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is looking very strong, leading with 24 percent support. That’s 10 percentage points higher than the second-place Republican, Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. And what’s most impressive is that Walker was only at 3 percent when PPP surveyed New Hampshire voters back in January.
Rand Paul is third with 12 percent, and Jeb Bush comes in fourth with just 10 percent support. Marco Rubio and Chris Christie follow with 8 percent. Mike Huckabee and Dr. Ben Carson are at 7 percent. Rick Perry is at 4 percent.
But while Rubio would seem to have the potential to grow with the momentum generated from his announcement on Monday night declaring his candidacy for president, his Miami-area neighbor, Jeb Bush, appears to be in trouble.
Bush continues to face some early skepticism from conservative voters. His overall favorability spread is only 41/40 among New Hampshire voters, and among voters who identify themselves as “very conservative” he’s actually on negative ground at 34/45. Only six percent within that group say Bush is their first choice to be the Republican nominee.
Other losers in the poll have to be Chris Christie, whose support has dropped by 16 points now to its current eight percent standing, and PPP says he is by far and away the most unpopular candidate in the GOP field there. Only 34 percent of voters there view him favorably to 49 percent with a negative opinion. The only other potential GOP hopefuls with underwater numbers in the state are Donald Trump (40/41), George Pataki (21/28), and Lindsey Graham (20/36).
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is at 45 percent. Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren produces one of her best poll ratings, getting 23 percent. Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is at 12 percent, Joe Biden at 7 percent, Martin O’Malley at 3 percent, and 1 percent each for Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb.
PPP surveyed 358 Republican primary voters and 329 Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire from April 9th to 13th.. The margins of error are +/- 5.2% for the GOP sample, and +/- 5.4% for the Democratic portion. 80 percent of interviews for the poll were conducted over the phone with 20 percent interviewed over the Internet to reach respondents who don’t have landline telephones.
He is boring... Walker, Cruz, Paul, and Rubio are not.
The GOP-e and Chamber and their ilk want one of their own who won't rock the boat. The last thing they want is someone who actually believes all that conservative crap about the Constitution, limited government, national sovereignty, etc.
I know Santorum’s time is over, but he did come in second place in 2012 after all. Not that awful considering Reagan came in 2nd place in 1976. Santorum ruined his chances because the last 4 years he has basically done nothing and new blood has arrived that is better, but I still think it is foolish to laugh over someone who came pretty close to winning it last time.
True leaders arise to the occasion.
Jeb Bush is a horse’s rear end.
“Bush continues to face some early skepticism from conservative voters.”
I would say that is an understatement.
As I was briefly listening to Laura Ingram and Hugh Hewitt lately, it seems they barely give a nod to Cruz being in the race.
Is that my perception or are they trying to downplay him too?
Do you realize how inexpensive real estate is here, compared to there?
The Paulestinians told me that Ron Paul came in second...
“The GOP-e and Chamber and their ilk want one of their own who won’t rock the boat. The last thing they want is someone who actually believes all that conservative crap about the Constitution, limited government, national sovereignty, etc. “
Which is why it’s incumbent to start attacking the US Chamber of Commerce traitors. This same business group, although German at that time period and from the 1930s, gave the world Herr Hitler. Time to remind these pricks that America has lampposts from sea to shining sea and they have names and addresses.
“Do you realize how inexpensive real estate is here, compared to there? “
Do you realize just how awful the weather is in Texas as compared to California? And Texans are not cordial to Californians. I have a very good friend who moved to Austin to take a senior technical management position at Tracor. For seven years, his neighbors shunned him and his family because “they weren’t real Texans.” The sad part of it was he couldn’t get anywhere near what he needed from the custom home he built there to buy a new place back in the Silicon Valley, but he left anyway. The driver was his wife came to visit us and refused to go back, forcing her husband to find another job back in California! She is a very nice woman who basically said “Texans are “inbred a$$holes” who think you have to “earn the right to live there by living there for a couple of generations and take their crap.” Sorry 2DV, but that’s what she said. Now I suppose the Texas “long knives” will be on the hunt here.
I grew up in Chino, California and then lived in Iowa for decades. I’ve never seen any rejection from Texans in any way, shape or form. Ever.
Walker leading at 24 points in NH.
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I suspect the media will be too busy talking about Bush and the marathon (yawn) to pay any attention to Cruz. We'll see.
As much appealing as waterlogged rice cakes ?
JEBBIE BUSH : THE APPEAL AS WATERLOGGED RICE CAKES...
The rice cake canadate...
That’s why they are thinning out the GOP field and delute the vote.
What ? soon we will have 8 10 12 canadates in the field ?
Your right, conservatives need to get behind one canadate and soon.
That’s why I have written to Jim Robinson to write up a whole page article in why he would think that Ted Cruz would be the best choice among conservative.
Also to formally and officially make a annouchment here on FR that he endorses and supports Ted Cruz for president before the GOP field gets to thinned out and deluted the vote.
Ted Cruz could use a big endorsement now.
Free Republic Cruz Country.
Jim Rob hear that from 2ndDivisionvet ?
Its the Cruz battle cry..
We can not let the RINO GOPe gang force Ted Cruz out by thinning it out and delute the field.
Marco Rubio is not it.
Rand Paul is not it.
Mike Huckabee is not it.
Jeb Bush is not it.
Lindsay Graham is surely not it.
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