Jeb Bush has his work cut out for him, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds – but no more than any of the other potential Republican presidential hopefuls for 2016. Fourteen percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who are registered to vote support Bush for the GOP presidential nomination. […] Read more »
Huckabee, Paul, Ryan, Perry Best Known and Liked in GOP
Four potential GOP candidates for president in 2016 stand above seven others as the best known and best liked among Republicans at this early juncture in the nominating process. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry are all familiar […] Read more »
Clinton Is Best Known, Best Liked Potential 2016 Candidate
Hillary Clinton is currently the best known and best liked of 16 potential 2016 presidential candidates tested in a July 7-10 Gallup poll, due to her 91% familiarity score and +19 net favorable rating. The net favorable is based on her 55% favorable and 36% unfavorable ratings. CONT. Jeffrey M. […] Read more »
Questions for the GOP’s 2016 field of candidates
Texas Gov. Rick Perry once famously described the 2012 Republican presidential field as the “weakest . . . in history.” Republicans expect better things in 2016, but today there are as many question marks as exclamation points behind the names of their prospective candidates. … The Republican nomination contest is unsettled and […] Read more »
Iowa Poll: A tug of war for 2016 caucuses
Chris Christie and Jeb Bush have the highest unfavorable ratings of 11 potential White House candidates, yet Iowa’s Republican primary voters think they would have the best chance of being elected over the Democratic candidate in November 2016. Paul Ryan, a fiscal hawk considered another establishment guy, earns the highest […] Read more »
Poverty Is Not a State of Mind
Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush, the didactic-meets-dynastic duo, spoke last week at a Manhattan Institute gathering, providing a Mayberry-like prescription for combating poverty in this country: all it takes is more friendship and traditional marriage. … A Pew Research Center/USA Today survey in January found that, unlike Democrats and independents, […] Read more »