POLITICO: Poll: Scott Walker slipping in Iowa

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GREENVILLE, SC - MAY 09: Wisconsin Governor and exploratory Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker speaks at the Freedom Summit on May 9, 2015 in Greenville, South Carolina. Walker joined eleven other potential candidates in addressing the event hosted by conservative group Citizens United. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images)
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Poll: Walker slipping in Iowa

Walker is expected to make Iowa the centerpiece of his early campaign efforts.

By Steven Shepard

7/1/15 7:00 AM EDT

A new poll out Wednesday shows Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leading the GOP caucuses in neighboring Iowa — but with a slight decrease in support that suggests the first presidential nominating contest on the 2016 calendar remains wide open.

Walker, who is expected to make Iowa the centerpiece of his early campaign efforts after he officially joins the presidential field on July 13, has the support of 18 percent of likely GOP caucus participants, according to the Quinnipiac University poll.

That puts him ahead of a crowded Republican field, though his support is slipping. The decrease from the previous poll — Walker was at 21 percent two months ago — is not statistically significant. But his decline in more pronounced from a Quinnipiac poll in February of this year, in which Walker led the next-closest competitor with a quarter of the vote.......

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