Posted on 05/25/2013 7:04:45 PM PDT by drewh
As far as the pollsters are concerned, the 2016 race is underway. And Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is certainly acting like he's in the race.
The latest poll out of Iowa has former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton beating Florida Sen. Marco Rubio handily (48 vs. 37 percent), but could face a tougher race against Senator Paul (46 vs. 42 percent), according to a new poll by Quinnipiac University.
The poll says that Iowa voters would give the race to either Senator Rubio or Senator Paul, if the Democratic Party candidate was Vice President Joe Biden.
"In general Sen. Paul appears to be the better GOP candidate at this point in Iowa. Part of the reason may be the publicity from his recent high-profile visit to the state, but more likely is that he begins with a solid base of support - the folks who voted for his father in the 2008 and 2012 caucuses."
As The Christian Science Monitor reported, Rand Paul was in Iowa two weeks ago, and was popular among Republicans.
In a recent survey of [only] the registered Republican voters in Iowa, Paul won 39 percent of the vote with Marco Rubio next in line at just 20 percent. (Among Democrats, Hillary Clinton won 43 percent with Vice President Joe Biden winning 27 percent.) Earlier this year, Paul won a straw poll vote at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
At a Monitor-sponsored press gathering last month, Paul said he would not decide whether to run before 2014. Meanwhile, he’s just unique enough among the GOP field – and just different enough from his father – to keep drawing attention.
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To honor the memories of the over a million men and women who gave the last full measure of devotion to keep this country a Republic, all of us must be as strong and wise as our Founding Fathers, or we will lose the Republic our Founders gave us, the only one in the world to the Marxist, Socialist and Communist that infest our congress and WH
I never said they did. I said they support Rubio.
Just for what it’s worth, I would bet that Rush and Levin will sour on Rubio if he keeps pushing his plan. It doesn’t mean that they have to condemn him to hell.
IMHO, one aspect of the big DC immigration push was to take-out Rubio by making him unpalatable to the Republican base.
And he's the smartest guy in any room. I hope he runs. But if it's Rand vs Rubio, or Jeb, or The Blob, I won't hesitate to vote for Paul.
This was self inflicted. But I'm glad he exposed himself before he went too far.
Andrew Cuomo?
Yes. Just because their good friend is trying to destroy the country by throwing open the borders, increasing the debt exponentially, driving the wages of people through the floor, increasing the level of crime, slapping the faces of legal immigrants, ensuring the political dynasty of the Democrat Party and a few hundred other equally beneficial things, we wouldn’t want to resort to harsh language or a strongly worded letter.
Rubio deserves to be at minimum run out of the political right, not praised as a conservative by supposed conservatives. If you think that we should accept his ‘good friends’ and their top 2 rated talk shows just driving the country left with the acceptance of the above, and promoting the guy promoting it, I really don’t know what to tell you that doesn’t involve harsh language of my own.
Iowa is not necessarily a reliable barometer for determining who the party nominee will eventually be...
Fat chance. :)
She certainly has no where to go but down.
And she’ll look like a full on corpse in another few years.
In other news Scott Walker visited Iowa.
I was going to let it go unanswered, but since you seem so righteous about the subject, please (again) tell me who you supported in the 2012 primary and send any old link clearly stating their rock solid anti-amnesty stance. Thank you.
The “democracy” in IA didn’t get to send their bill off in 1992 because of Harkin as a placeholder. They will want to be sure to be there to push Hillary to the nod in 2016; nothing can stop the IA “democracy”. It means business!
Well to paraphrase that old senator Roman L. Hruska, R-NE, “even corpses need a little representation too.” I think he said that in 1970 when Judge Carswell, a Supreme Court nominee, was called “mediocre”, and Hruska said even the “mediocre need representation.”
I don’t know about Norm, but I supported Santorum even after he pulled out and had embarrassed himself with his premature endorsement of “Trayvon.” I just voted for him as a placeholder against Romney; then for Romney in the fall.
Given how Roberts was able to outsmart himself on Osamacare I’m thinking Hruska was right, we could do with a mediocre SC Justice as long as he was a conservative.
Again, Who I voted for does not matter. And it’s not righteous. It’s simply ‘right’.
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