Poll Finds Rubio Performing Best Against Hillary Clinton

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published APRIL 23, 2015, 6:47 AM EDT

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) performs the best against Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical presidential race, only trailing her by two percentage points, according to a Quinnipiac University National poll released on Thursday.

In the matchup between Rubio and Clinton, 43 percent of voters supported Rubio and 45 percent supported Clinton. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) trailed behind Clinton by four points, while former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Wisconsin Gov. Scott each trailed Clinton by five points. Rubio led the pack of potential Republican nominees with 13 percent support from Republican voters. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush received 13 percent support and Walker claimed 11 percent.

Clinton leads the Democratic field with 60 percent support from Democratic voters. Vice President Joe Biden claimed just 10 percent support, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed 8 percent, and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley claimed 3 percent.

Quinnipiac surveyed 1,353 registered voters nationwide April 16-21 via phone with a margin of error plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.

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[jalan48]

1. Bottled water companies are ecstatic at the news.

[khankiso]

2. no way

do I believe this poll the numbers are made up or they only polled the office workers of Rubio's

[geomon666]

3. I believe it.

Nobody outside of FL knows anything about this clown. The more he opens his mouth on a national stage, watch those poll numbers plummet.

[DonViejo]

4. Deja vu of 2012 all over again...

Rubio is clown of the week. Next week, the lead will be someone else.

[sendero]

5. I think of all of the Republican...

... contenders, Rubio has the best shot. His policies are largely the same as his fellow clown-car inhabitants, but he is a really smooth talker and Americans are dumbasses for a smooth talker.

We'll see.

[turbinetree]

6. Lets

just say the Koch's hasn't decided on which five he is going to buy off with his 300 million slush fund of greed for political favors.
Let's give a big shout out to "Thank" the U.S. Supreme Court under the leadership of one John Roberts and his right wing cronies on the bench for giving this country a dysfunctional process in the First Amendment and in the rulings in McCutcheon and Citizen's United and Shelby and the gutting of the Civil Rights Act