Carson leads Trump, Rubio in Wisconsin poll

Although the findings largely reflect the deep partisanship that characterizes the nation’s political climate, they also reveal a few surprising areas of potential compromise. For the Democratic primary, 374 Democrats were surveyed with a margin of error of +/- 6.1 percent.

Real estate tycoon Donald Trump maintains a sizable lead over his rivals in New Hampshire, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday. “Marco Rubio and Dr. Ben Carson”.

“Carson’s greatest strength has always been who people think he is as a person”, said J. Ann Selzer, whose Iowa-based Selzer & Co. conducted the poll.

The poll finds that Rubio would beat Clinton 52-36 percent; Carson would win 52-38 percent; Cruz would beat Clinton 51-38 percent, while Trump gets 48 percent of the vote against Clinton’s 37 percent.

Carson’s fall, or as Trump calls it “free fall”, is the result of questions about Carson’s grasp of foreign policy.

Rubio also slightly leads Clinton, beating her 45-44 percent. Rubio’s support for a 2013 bill that would have provided a path to citizenship for millions now living in the USA illegally has been an issue in the campaign. Carson doesn’t talk foreign policy particularly well, nor does he seem well-matched for the tough guy role. Cruz, who ranks second in the Washington Examiner’s presidential power rankings, stood at 7 percent when PPP surveyed Republican voters in early October. Among Democrats, 76 percent correctly said the rate is lower. Bernie Sanders advanced to 41 percent. 55 percent said they might change their mind and two percent said they didn’t know.

A deeper look at the numbers shows that Carson is winning among the voters who self-identified as “very conservative” or evangelical, though Cruz is galvanizing those who align with the Tea Party. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Florida Sen.

Bush’s favorability within this group has dropped to 47 percent from 57 percent when the poll was taken in September 2015. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is well behind at 2 percent. At the end of October, Carson and Trump were tied for first place at 27 percent.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa-Hours after terrorists attacked a hotel in Mali & each one week after Islamic State fighters struck Paris, Ted Cruz took the ground right here to deliver a hard critique of President Obama’s Middle East posture & pledge a hardline approach to Syrian Muslim refugees. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) all registered at 1 percent.