Posted on 05/14/2015 8:47:50 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Ben Carson has surged into the top tier of GOP presidential candidates in a Fox News poll released Thursday, tying former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for the No. 1 slot.
The poll shows Carson and Bush in the lead with 13 percent support each. That’s a 7 percentage-point jump for Carson, who was tied for sixth place in the same poll in April.
Carson’s jump comes on the heels of his presidential announcement two weeks ago in Detroit. His campaign immediately sought to fundraise off the poll, boasting of the more than 100,000 donations it has collected in recent weeks.
Carson has a strong favorability rating, with 26 percent viewing him positively against 16 percent negative, but he remains relatively unknown. Forty-nine percent said they had never heard of him. Only businesswoman Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich have worse name ID.
The poll is also good news for Bush, who sat in fourth place with 9 percent support in April.
While Bush’s poll numbers are lagging in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa, which many believe to be a reflection of his problems with the base, he continues to poll well nationwide. Bush leads the field nationally, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, with 15.4 percent support.
Still, the Fox News poll shows he’s underwater on favorability, with 37 percent saying they have a positive view of him, against 44 percent negative.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker sits alone at third place in the Fox News poll with 11 percent support, followed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 10 percent, Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) at 7 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 6 percent each.
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Remember, BOR could not poll the Pamela Geller good or bad question without getting hacked.
"Deep"? Deep??
How about "confused," "scattered," "circus-like," and "self-defeating"?
As of now, there ONLY SEVEN declared Democrats for its party's 2016 presidential nomination, out of a probable TEN total, THREE still being in the exploratory stages. The Democrat party aparatus knows EXACTLY who and what it is about.
The Stupid Party -- er, excuse me, my own Republican party (I have not yet changed my registration after nearly 40 years of voting loyally and doggedly straight Republican ticket in every election EXCEPT 2012, when for the first time ever I REFUSED to vote for the Republican presidential candidate because I refused to be tricked into supporting a demonstrated fully functional liberal Democrat, though masquerading as a "Republican") -- the Stupid Party right now has FIFTEEN declared candidates in its primaries.
FIFTEEN, Robby, and that's not counting Walker, Christie, Jindahl, Bush, even Donald Trump (hey, remember this is DEEP field, celebrate diversity, fools!), who are still in the "exploratory" stage. What you're REALLY looking at is a probable total of TWENTY FIVE Republicans to choose from in this ludicrous dog-and-pony show .
The Republican party is screwed up six ways to Sunday, with zero clue as to who or what it is supposed to stand for, and that is WHY it has such a "deep field," as you put it. It's not a deep field -- it's a muddy trap of quicksand.
I hope Cruz gets the nomination, as he is the ONLY candidate out of the whole bunch who is taking our fight for freedom on offense. ALL other Republicans, declared or still exploring, are still playing defense and will always approach it from a defense posture. That is a LOSER'S game.
Cruz is the only one who has a winner's mindset.
How many horses run in the triple crown races? None of them is a nag.
Exactly my thoughts. To think that Carson is ahead of Cruz and that Cruz is also tied at the bottom with Christie is laughable.
This is not a sporting event. That is your mistake.
Frame the poll a certain way, ask the right question, call the right demographics and presto magic you have the poll results you want...
News reporting polls are all about generating hits and revenue...
Not about actual informed data
Well its official. Fox News polls are inaccurate. Carson and Jebbie? I don’t think so.
Now there’s a story with no teeth in it!
Well, Cruz is smart enough to handle the field. No one expected him to have so much money available so early. don’t think he will be boxed in.
Horse-racing comes very close to being a blood sport. Never try to arm wrestle a jockey.
Push poling has become a common tool.
meanwhile....... Cruz doesn’t make the top 5
Like this is some kind of horse race. All on the up and up, best man wins.
Hello???? SEVEN (Democrat declared) versus FIFTEEN (Republican declared)? You know how the primaries operate, where essentially a small regional group of states, many elections including Democrat cross-overs, do the winnowing among that 25? Or more likely, five or six? How many Democrats are winnowed in their primaries? They don't play this game in their own party, they know who they are.
What is wrong with our party that we have such a wide variation as Huckabee and Cruz? That's nuts, just nuts.
Look, I'll be as happy as the next person if Cruz gets the nomination, and if the primaries were actually representative, he would. But the primaries are warped to the point that by the time they come to my state, the decision has been long since made. My vote is mere vanity.
I saw McCain and Romney served to me. Voted for one because of Palin, but the other one -- means one of us is in the wrong party.
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