2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNo 2016 Republican Leader in Poll Showing Wide Disfavor
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 partys 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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Blue Owl
(50,513 posts)I see the GOP re-branding efforts aren't going so well, heh heh heh...
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)which one of them is Prince Doofus?
So many choices, so little time.
Blue Owl
(50,513 posts)Or as many here know him by (sans vowels): RNC PR BS
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)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
(29,876 posts)Sandy, he can't be nominated.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)by the following:
Followed by:
and then, THIS:
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:
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:
Hopefully, the correction will be made.
groundloop
(11,523 posts)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
(588 posts)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
(769 posts)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.