Posted on 04/10/2015 4:52:36 PM PDT by mac_truck
A new poll shows New Hampshire Republicans leaning toward Scott Walker over Jeb Bush, with Rand Paul, who announced his candidacy and visited the Granite State this week, in third place.
The NH1 poll released Friday shows Walker, the Wisconsin governor, leading Bush, 23 percent to 17 percent – outside the margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Paul, the first-term Kentucky senator, is at 15 percent.
The three leaders are the only candidates to register in double figures. The next tier is led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (9 percent), who entered the race last month, and businessman Donald Trump (8 percent), who is toying with a potential candidacy for the second consecutive election cycle.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who is expected to join the race next month, is next with 7 percent, following by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 6 percent. Rounding out the field are former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (6 percent), businesswoman Carly Fiorina (2 percent) and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (2 percent).
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Pretty much. The Trump at 8% makes me sceptical of this poll.
Ted Cruz is not gay you lame. If its not Paul or Cruz I’m voting Constitutional Party. Walker can go take a hike.
Lose Florida and it is impossible.
I've been playing around with the map over at 270towin.com looking at current and past elections and it isn't pretty. A lot of blue states are going to stay blue no matter what.
I sometimes wonder if down the road, it will be Republicans fighting to abolish the electoral college and go with a popular vote.
The MSM loves Jeb which should be a red flag for everyone...
LOL
Paul has shown himself to be a flake.
His whining hissy-fits in interviews show he's long away from ready.
Hillary would eat him for lunch.
At least Walker admits he changed his mind, believe him or not, (being skeptical is smart) but Paul starts bawling when asked about all his flips.
Sweet.
Interesting analysis. Although we should have won Wisconsin in 2012 with Ryan, too.
I’ve read your comments, while others here were applauding Paul for taking the media to task, which all Conservatives ought to do, you were parroting the MSM sentiments.
I’m for Cruz as well, but I’m not going to go along with the whole MSM narrative regarding Paul’s interviews (ie whining) just because he’s not my top candidate.
No point in winning if the “winner” is a Rino.
MSM??? Is that supposed to mean something to me?
We have to live on the Planet Earth not planet talk radio,
Sure talk radio is going to feed you their/that narrative, they want your exclusive attention.
I saw that weakness in Paul when he went on MSNBC Maddow in 2010 and got his clock cleaned. It was such a rout that he later denied what he said on the show, recorded forever.(just like he now denies his flip-flopping)
He has spent the last few years trying to recover by sucking up to liberal blacks.
He actually thought that he would get liberal supporters by going on that show (That no-one watches now) , but it was a disaster,
You definitely must be one of those old Alan Keyes supporters, who knew, just knew, he would win everything despite polls and tons of evidence he was swimming upstream and often going backwards. The wounded cries when he lost were hysterical because all the evidence was there that he would lose.
Anyway, name recognition is a big part of polling at this point and the fact that NH is much more moderate than some other states. Yes, I believe the poll and I don't think Bush will win, but be more thoughtful and not such a knee jerky type of person. Why even post something you haven't even given a thought about, except muttering to yourself, "Golly, look at dat pole. It don't look right to me. Gosh, no one called me 'bout it. Gee, can't be right."
Buh Bye Jeb
The words Cruz and liberal don’t go together.
Remember when Rick Perry was numero uno in 2011? That did not turn out so well.
The media pushed Mitt, McLame, Dole and on us too and we were stupid enough to let em do so.,
I won't bash Walker or Cruz - either would be a fine choice to see on the final ballot. We can have favorites but we sometimes tend to overdo the bashing of the only good choices and end up with RINOs. I'm sending money to Cruz, but if he stops having a chance, will gladly send some to Walker. If we eliminate either one of them early on, we have decreased our chances of having either on the ballot by a lot.
Santo was a big spender. Nothing conservative about that.
Maybe he was a big spender but I doubt we would be 18 trillion in debt with him. I also think that abortion would be stopped at late term and no overseas abortion and perhaps even more federal restrictions. I also believe that we would not be in this gay marriage mess and gays would not be in the military. Christians would not be having to apologize for who they are. Santorum MIGHT have left out Muslims in his Easter prayer. So I guess MAYBE Santo is a big spender which I guess relieves you of having him as our President because who we have now seems to satisfy you pretty well. (a little sarcastic last sentence only).
I am a single issue voter and my issue is illegal immigration. I will be voting Cruz not Walker in the primary. Walker has been all over the board on illegal immigration, it is very hard to believe what he is now saying. He is a flip flopper on the issue.
He had a real shot until he out smarted himself.
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