Trump leads Carson, Rubio in New Hampshire

In the match-ups, Carson generally beats Trump on personality traits, while the businessman swamps the doctor on those that measure taking action.

Sixty-four percent did say they disapprove of the way Republican leaders are handling their job, compared to 24 percent who approve.

Among GOP presidential candidates, Cruz was the only “yes” vote on a bill Congress approved last June that killed the National Security Agency’s disputed bulk phone records collection program and replaced it with a more restrictive measure to keep the records in phone companies’ hands. On who would better deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump has a 14-percentage- point advantage.

The poll was conducted among 804 registered New Hampshire voters and has a margin of error of +/- 5.5 percentage points for Democratic voters and +/- 5 percentage points for Republican voters.

Many polling experts have speculated that Carson’s support among Republicans may mirror the boom-and-bust arcs of previous insurgent candidates and could be a figment of the inability of early polling to predict actual results several months out. Just more than a quarter of all American adults agree with this approach.

The unemployment rate on the other hand-or how it’s perceived-seems to vary according to political party registration.

Almost seven in 10 said Carson has a better temperament to be president than Trump. Ted Cruz and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who pull 9 percent and 6 percent, respectively.

Younger voters helped push Sanders one point ahead of Clinton, 45 percent to 44 percent.

Trump told a crowd in Newton, Iowa on Thursday that he believed Carson’s campaign was in serious trouble after the retired neurosurgeon has struggled to answer questions on foreign policy. Among women, the vote divides 48 percent for Clinton vs. 42 percent for Sanders.

The SC primary and Nevada caucuses will be held within three days of each other, so a candidate winning both of them could have real momentum going into Florida, which holds its winner-take-all primary on March 15.

Alas, sadly, despite the party’s incessant nudging, it doesn’t look as if Romney will be their savior, as he’s repeatedly said that he has no interest in running yet again for the POTUS seat. Cruz came in third with 8 percent, followed by Bush with 7 percent.

While support among likely New Hampshire primary voters remained largely steady at 22 percent for Trump, it continued to drop for Carson – falling from 17 percent in September to just 11 percent in a WBUR New Hampshire 2016 Republican Primary poll released Wednesday. Rand Paul at 5% each.

The results were more even between those two candidates though Rubio generally bested Cruz, a hardline conservative who is staking his candidacy on his ideological bona fides and no-compromise mentality. Forty-two percent said they should be deported.