New Q national poll: 4-way GOP race; Bush isn’t in it

The top four GOP candidates are backed by 7 in 10 primary voters or 71%.

Clinton still overwhelmingly wins black voters, with 73 percent supporting the former secretary of state. Most voters are ambivalent on President Barack Obama’s party, but 41 percent view it positively and 39 percent view it negatively. Ted Cruz moved up to 13 percent. Hillary Clinton has -6 points net favorability, trailing behind seven Republicans as well as Bernie Sanders.

In a separate survey by WBUR New Hampshire Primary Poll, Carson and Trump are neck and neck, with Trump only leading by two points. Marco Rubio of Florida, she leads him 47 percent to 44 percent.

Real estate tycoon Donald Trump has once again become the frontrunner Republican presidential candidate edging past neurosurgeon Ben Carson, albeit by a small three per cent margin.

“Is there a doctor in the house?” Ted Cruz (R-TX) beats her 46 percent to 43 percent.

The only candidate tested that would lose to Clinton is Trump.

But Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota who dropped out of the presidential race early in 2012, told the Washington Post last week that “stragglers” may not be dropping out because of loyal support from smaller campaign operations that require less money.

Only 8 percent of Democrats say they would definitely not support Clinton.

The Quinnipiac University National poll also shows Carson in a virtual tie with Trump as the favorite for the Republican nomination.

Chris Christie helped himself in the debate, with the third highest percentage saying he did the “best job”.

Bush has the worst net favorability rating of any candidate, a negative 25 – 58 percent, while Trump gets a negative 37 – 56 percent and Clinton gets a negative 42 – 52 percent. Trump garnered 24 percent of support, while Carson received 23 percent.

The Elon University Poll conducted the live-caller survey of 1,234 residents, 1,040 of which said they were registered to vote, from October 29 to November 2, 2015.

Jindal, who has been relegated to the undercard debate in the Republican race, scored 6 percent support in the survey from Public Policy Polling (PPP), one percentage point ahead of Bush, though within the poll’s 3.9 percent margin of error.