Posted on 02/11/2015 4:44:18 AM PST by cotton1706
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the front-runner in a new 2016 Republican presidential preference poll in South Carolina, while U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is close enough to make it a statistical tie here.
But the news is less favorable for Graham in three other early voting states - Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada - where his level of support registers at negligible among GOP voters, totalling at 1 percent and below.
The poll, by the conservative Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, put Walker is out front in South Carolina but statistically tied with Graham, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Walker has a 12 percent following in the state, while Graham is next at 11 percent. Huckabee is a 10 percent; and Bush, 9 percent.
A recent Gravis Marketing poll, which did not include Graham, showed Bush out front with 18 percent in South Carolina, indicating he would have the most to gain if Graham opts against a White House run. Graham has said he will decide by May whether to jump in.
Graham’s numbers elsewhere, meanwhile, indicate he has far to go to get traction. The group’s poll put him statistically at a zero percent following in Iowa when grouped against 12 other Republicans with White House interests. He is at zero percent as well in New Hampshire; and is 1 percent in Nevada.
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