New Marquette University Candidate Poll Released

The new Marquette Law School poll released Thursday shows a shift in both parties. Democrat Bernie Sanders, the next-most-popular candidate for independents, came it at a significantly lower 10 percent.

Among those who say they’ll vote on the Republican ballot in April, Donald Trump climbed 5 points since November to take the lead with 24 percent support. Ben Carson is backed by 8 percent, with Chris Christie at 5 percent.

Trump leads U.S. Sen. Martin O’Malley comes in a distant third with just two percent.

And if Trump does well in these early states, Bitzer predicts it could be all over for the other Republicans.

Trump’s warnings about Cruz’s birth in Canada have failed to resonate, with only 19% concluding that Cruz is not a “natural born citizen”. The margin of error in the poll is +/- 4.0 percentage points.

However, 41 percent of those polled say they don’t know enough or have an opinion about Senator Johnson; 25% say the same about Feingold. In addition, 63 percent of respondents said they favor Wisconsin’s concealed carry law, although just 31 percent favored a plan being circulated at the state Capitol that would let people carry concealed guns on school grounds.

While presidential candidates are vying for votes in what figures to be a close set of Iowa caucuses, a recent poll gives a picture of who Pennsylvania voters prefer.

That compares with 66 percent for Sanders and 59 percent for Republican Senator Ted Cruz.

The poll also found that terrorism is the most important issue for the state’s Republicans when weighing their choice for president (26 percent), while unemployment was the biggest issue for Democrats (17 percent). Men support Sanders by a margin of 58 percent to 35 percent, while women favor Clinton 57 percent to 37 percent. Feingold gained 1 point and Johnson lost 1 point from November’s survey. Carson is the top candidate among 7 percent of Tennessee Republicans.