No 2016 Republican Leader in Poll Showing Wide Disfavor

[Purveyor]

By Greg Giroux - Apr 3, 2013

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose handling of Hurricane Sandy and television appearances has drawn positive media coverage, runs fourth among potential party rivals in the 2016 presidential campaign, a new poll of Republican voters shows.

The survey by Hamden, Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University showed a wide-open field as the party works to rehabilitate its image five months after President Barack Obama became the first holder of the office in 56 years to win more than 51 percent of the popular vote twice.

No one attracted 20 percent support from Republican voters. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida got 19 percent, compared with 17 percent for Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the party’s vice-presidential nominee last year, and 15 percent for Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Christie, favored to win re- election in November, had 14 percent backing and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush received 10 percent.

“Three years before the nominating process, the Republicans have no clear favorite,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Polling Institute.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-03/no-2016-republican-leader-in-poll-showing-wide-disfavor.html

[Blue Owl]

1. Isn't Prince Doofus working on that?

I see the GOP re-branding efforts aren't going so well, heh heh heh...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. sorry, but you have to explain.

which one of them is Prince Doofus?

So many choices, so little time.

[Blue Owl]

4. I was referring to none other than Rince Priebus

Or as many here know him by (sans vowels): RNC PR BS

[graham4anything]

3. Jeb will be the nominee.

And the more people in the mix, the surer it will be because Jeb has the entire structure behind a sane candidate he will be running as.

Racists can't by definition back Rubio, and all.

Jeb basically is in the margin of error already at the top, but for Jeb, being near, but not on top is better (and despite my being about the only one forecasting this for many, many year,
it is actually happening that he is erasing the Bush name as being bad.)

His fathers ill health in late 2012 and the love that flowed in anticipation of bad health news, shows that some people actually love them

PUKE

[Purveyor]

5. Jeb will do just fine in my books as beatable, Christie was the one that concerned me but since

Sandy, he can't be nominated.

[DonViejo]

6. While reading the full article, I was struck...

by the following:

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose handling of Hurricane Sandy and television appearances has drawn positive media coverage -snip-

Followed by:

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida got 19 percent, compared with 17 percent for Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the party’s vice-presidential nominee last year, and 15 percent for Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Christie, favored to win re- election in November, had 14 percent backing and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush received 10 percent. -snip-

and then, THIS:

The lack of an early Republican front-runner contrasts with a prospective Democratic field led by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 65,

See the difference? Hillary's age is mentioned but, not the ages of the GOP candidates.

I wrote the following e-mail to Jeanne Cummings, the editor responsible for the article:

Hello,

In the article "No 2016 Republican Leader in Poll Showing Wide Disfavor," you list the several potential candidates for the GOP nomination but do not list their respective ages. However, with the first mention of Secretary Clinton, her age is reported directly after her name. Why? Is it ageism or sexism?

Thanks in advance for your response.

Regards,
Don

and received the following response from Ms Cummings:

Don, Thanks for pointing this out. It's an error on our part. All ages should have been included. I'll ask for an adjustment. Jeanne

Hopefully, the correction will be made.

[groundloop]

7. Good catch.

Hopefully if people like you keep pointing out these inconsistencies in reporting more and more writers will be more careful about such 'oversights'.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

8. Christie

Just because the Repug base doesn't like Christie, doesn't mean he won't get the nomination. They didn't like McCain or Romney either.

[TRoN33]

9. The only one reason...

Why America are getting tired of the Republicans' favor of long campaign. They had very long years of campaign that caused a big headache for Americans. That is why Mitt Romney lost in landslide because nobody wants to hear his voice anymore. Now Marc Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and even Rick Santorum are already hitting up the cash from wealth and wall street, meaning they are already campaigning for 2016 but the Republicans already know that Americans will rather to go with Hillary if she decide to give it an another run for it.

[yellowcanine]

10. Good thing for Jeb that Hillary Clinton's name wasn't in there.