Stuff happens: Poll lays bare Jeb Bush campaign travails

Trump does not think Clinton should be running for president, instead, he believes she should be in jail.

The poll found that 27 percent of Republican primary voters support Trump, while 21 percent said they favor Carson. Carly Fiorina is another outsider candidate and has improved her polling numbers drastically. Biden also takes away support from Clinton, specifically as they share the same support base.

“Honestly, she shouldn’t be allowed to run“.

Trump’s emphasis on not being politically correct has his competitors struggling to catch up. For now, the best they can hope for is continuing success for Trump – “every Democrat’s favorite GOP nominee”, as Quinnipiac poll Assistant Director Peter A. Brown put it.

Rubio has missed about a third of all Senate floor votes this year, including more than half since June 1, a record of absenteeism his GOP presidential rivals, notably Donald Trump, have excoriated him for in recent weeks.

Cruz and Rubio were vehement in their opposition to Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Shaw identified Rubio and Fiorina as the candidates with the strongest performances.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has the highest unfavorability numbers since CBS News began asking about her in 1992, with 53 percent of voters holding an unfavorable view and 33 percent indicating a favorable view. “Our stupid politicians say, ‘That’s not possible.’ And for them, it’s not”. Then again, it didn’t work so well with Dick Cheney.

■ Rand Paul blamed political correctness on what he viewed as the Centers for Disease Control amd Prevention’s reluctance to talk about the potential for an Ebola outbreak in the United States.

Fifty-three percent of USA voters hold an unfavorable opinion of the presidential candidate. A few poll-watchers have questioned whether Trump’s coalition, which includes plenty of moderates, would be willing to consider a righty as their fallback option. He’s a born showman, a master of branding and marketing. It is true that most of the time a candidate who is seen as outside the mainstream of American politics does badly, as when the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater (in 1964), and even more so when the Democrats nominated George McGovern (in 1972).

An index fund might also have been less ethically problematic.

Imagine what assumptions the political cognoscenti would be making if it were Bush, not Trump, who had maintained such an impressive lead since July, both nationally and in the early primary states.

If Trump’s performance as a business executive was problematic, Fiorina’s was exceptional. Only slightly more than 8 million watched that debate. Fourteen percent would not support her in a general election.

The margin of error among Republican voters was plus or minus 5 percentage points, while the margin of error among Democratic voters was plus or minus 6 percentage points. And Sunday, it was Carson’s turn to be center-stage. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. Rick Perry and Scott Walker have already withdrawn, but these departures from the race have not been enough to build a coalition around one clear contender against Trump.