Posted on 04/27/2015 12:04:23 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker appears to have an early edge in Iowa.
Craig Robinson, founder and editor of TheIowaRepublican.com, calls Walker the “clear frontrunner” following the weekend Faith and Freedom Coalition event in that state, which hosts the country’s first caucuses.
A number of the potential GOP presidential candidates attended the summit and addressed an audience of Iowa voters.
Sen. Marco Rubio delivered “one of the best-delivered speeches of the night,” Robinson writes. The political observer added that Sen. Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina got people talking. Fiorina “is going to be a surprise on caucus night if she keeps it up,” Robinson adds.
Robinson was impressed by Paul’s grasp of the importance of social issues to Iowa voters. He reported: “If one thing was made abundantly clear by the reception Paul received on Saturday night, it’s that he can make a play for the support of evangelical and socially conservative voters in a way that his father never could.”
According to Robinson’s analysis, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry appeared “comfortable as an underdog for the 2016 race,” and Gov. Bobby Jindal.
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Closing his analysis, Robinson detailed Walker’s speech saying he is definitely the frontrunner among Iowa voters.
“He draws a tremendous amount of interest amongst caucus-goers, and the only question is whether his campaign will harvest all of that interest into support,” Robinson said.
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The “TheIowaRepublican.com” is 100% GOP-e/RINO!
quote “No candidate excites Iowa conservatives like Cruz has over the past couple of years”
As IS MOST EVERYTHING else “Republican” in Iowa.
If it is true that Walker is the ‘front-runner’ then it does not surprise me an awful lot. It has to do with region of the country more than anything else. Wisconsin/Iowa, next-door buddies. ;-)
IIRC, Huckabee won Iowa. Didnt mean too much.
Correct me if I’m wrong but we’re about 9 months from the Iowa caucus?
Remember in 2011 when Rick Perry was the guy to beat? :-)
Americans STILL have a large selection to chose who they want to lead America from. The dumbass commie ‘RATS have to stay on the plantation and are stuck with Slick Willie’s wife. LOL!
Walker, Cruz, Rubio all seem good selections. The huckster and Paul can go pound sand...Bush and Christie need to be flushed..........
That means there is a low chance he can win it all.
Last nine:
3 unopposed (2 wins / 1 loss)
6 other winners, only 2 of which won. Many did not even get the nomination.
“IIRC, Huckabee won Iowa. Didnt mean too much.”
Walker wasn’t running in that election cycle. ;-)
"Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush leads a crowded Republican presidential field in the early state of New Hampshire, while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky lead in head-to-head match-ups against former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to a new poll.
Mr. Bush is the choice of 18 percent of GOP primary voters, followed by Mr. Walker at 16 percent and Mr. Paul at 15 percent, according to the automated survey from the firm Gravis Marketing.
Sen. Marco Rubio was next at 11 percent, followed by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 10 percent. No other Republican candidate eclipsed 5 percent, and Mr. Paul, Mr. Rubio and Mr. Cruz are the only three major Republicans to have officially declared they are running for president.".........
"About 7,500 votes were cast in The Weekly Standard's third presidential poll of the year, twice as many as in the poll a couple of months ago.
In that straw poll (and, to repeat, these are obviously not scientific surveys, but rather polls of those who chose to participate), Scott Walker, was far ahead, with almost half the first place votes. He still leads, but has come back to the field some. He's got 30% of the first place ballots, and appears on an impressive 69% of all ballots as a first, second or third choice.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have surged to second and third place, with 24% and 18% first place choices respectively; Rubio appears on 51% of ballots, Cruz on 45%. These are the big three on this week's survey: No one else gets more than 5% of first place votes, or appears on more than 18% of ballots overall."...
"In results that were stunning for several reasons, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was the runaway winner in a "straw poll" of Republican presidential favorites at Pennsylvania’s largest-ever gathering of conservatives, the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, on Friday and Saturday.
With the "straw ballots" counted and released on Saturday, Walker was an easy winner with 91 votes, followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with 58 votes. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was third with 56 votes.
Since the first PLC back in 1989, the group has become the most-attended and most-watched conclave of conservatives in the Keystone State. Fueled by the recent campaigns of conservative Sen. Pat Toomey (R.-Pa.) and by the rise of the "tea party movement" over the past five years, the 2015 PLC attracted a record 700-plus participants to the Radisson Hotel in Harrisburg.
Walker’s showing among this group was particularly impressive in that many PLC participants freely acknowledged to Newsmax that they had never met the governor but admired him tremendously for successfully standing up to organized labor over reform of pensions and healthcare for public employees."....
Actually I want Cruz and Walker running last. The media eats up the frontrunners till we are left with the dregs running on the R ticket.
It would be refreshing to have our best actually get the nomination.
The media can take out Bush and Christie early and that would suit me just fine.
What’s hilarious is that Walker hasn’t even announced yet. This is turning out to be very very good. I am happy how events are playing out so far.
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