Carson opens up lead in NC

The conventional wisdom is that Republican primary voters are having a little fun now with their support of oddball outsider candidates like Donald Trump and Ben Carson, but that when it comes time to start voting they’ll shift towards a more “electable candidate”.

The latest Quinnipiac poll, coming out one year before Election Day, shows each of the top Republican candidates except Donald Trump running ahead of Hillary Clinton.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton tops Sen.

On Tuesday, the results of an NBC/WSJ poll reflected a potential tie between Ben Carson and Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical matchup with both of them having a 47 percent score.

New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie tops Clinton 46 to 41 percent. Both surveys were done with only a year to go before the Obama administration ends and the United States needs to elect a new leader. The poll also showed Sanders beating Trump 50 percent to 41 percent, but did not ask about a match-up between Sanders and Carson.

Clinton and Trump topped the unfavorable list.

But Carson’s support has been steadily growing over the past month, and the soft-spoken doctor overtook the brash former reality TV star when Quinnipiac’s new poll showing a toss-up race was added into the mix.

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

Behind Carson and Trump, Sen. By a margin of 60 to 36-percent American voters say she is not honest and trustworthy.

Trump at 24 percent and Carson at 23 percent.

The poll was conducted from October 29 to November 2, with 1,144 registered voters nationwide and a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points.

Mr. Carson said recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that while he is soft-spoken, he has “plenty of energy”. Trump is viewed favorably by 37% and unfavorably by 56%, while Clinton’s ratings of 42% and 52% are also underwater.

A new WBUR New Hampshire Primary Poll also found the two GOP presidential front-runners essentially tied, giving Trump just a two-point lead over Carson in the first-in-the-nation primary state. The margins of error were about 4.5 percent in the Republican-only and Democrat-only questions.