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Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson talks to pastors and community leaders during a meeting at the Bilingual Church in Baltimore, Maryland, May 7, 2015. No clear front-runner has emerged in the Republican field for 2016 in a new Quinnipiac University poll, which shows former neurosurgeon Ben Carson as one of the top five finishers, each with 10-percent support. The top five contenders are former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, apart from Carson, according to the national survey conducted May 19-26 among 1,711 voters across the country....

Taking stock of President Barack Obama at the five-year mark in his term, less than a third of Americans consider him to be an above-average chief executive. Nearly twice as many find him likable.

2012 Republican Presidential Candidates Latest Polls Gallup PPP CNN NBC/WSJ Donald Trump 16% 26% 19% 17% Mike Huckabee 16% 17% 19% 17% Mitt Romney 13% 15% 11% 21% Sarah Palin 10% 8% 12% 10% Newt Gingrich 6% 11% 11% 11% Ron Paul 6% 5% 7% Michele Bachmann 4% 5% 5% Tim Pawlenty 3% 4% 2% 6% Mitch Daniels 3% 3% Rick Santorum 2% 2% 3% Haley Barbour 2% 1% Jon Hunstman 1% Herman Cain Chris Christie Gary Johnson

How many times have we heard the lament: If only we had a leader who wouldn’t stick his or her finger in the air to see which way the wind was blowing, who wouldn’t govern by reading the polls every morning? We’ve all asked that question at one time or another. We’ve all wished for someone who would act according to principles rather than polls. Like his principles or not, we’ve got such a leader. In fact, Gov. Scott Walker took to his Twitter account this past weekend to pass along an article from the Weekly Standard – more about...