Yes! What a choice! A ‘Rat or a RINO! Wadda country where the media picks and chooses your leaders for you!
What difference does it make?!!!
/johnny
December 18, 2013
“Christie leads both Democratic and GOP fields
PPP’s newest look ahead to the 2016 race for President finds just how strong Hillary Clinton is relative to other potential Democratic candidates.
Clinton narrowly trails Chris Christie right now in a hypothetical match up at 45/42. That’s owing largely to a 49/26 advantage among independent voters. We also tested four other potential Democratic candidates against Christie though, and they would all trail him by double digits. John Kerry has an 11 point deficit against Christie at 46/35, Joe Biden is down 14 at 49/35, Elizabeth Warren trails by 16 at 49/33, and Howard Dean would lag by 22 at 51/29.
Christie’s the strongest candidate for President right now because he’s viewed favorably across party lines. He’s at 48/26 with Republicans, 46/28 with independents, and 38/36 with Democrats. Clinton would start out ahead of all the other potential GOP candidates we tested against her on this poll- she’s up 5 on Jeb Bush and Rand Paul at 48/43, 6 on Mike Huckabee at 48/42, and 8 on Ted Cruz at 49/41.
In addition to being the strongest general election Christie also leads the Republican field. He gets 19% to 14% for Ted Cruz, 13% for Mike Huckabee, 11% for Rand Paul, 10% for Jeb Bush and Paul Ryan, 7% for Marco Rubio, 4% for Scott Walker, and 3% for Bobby Jindal.
Christie leads the field both with moderates (he gets 32% to 12% for Paul and 10% for Ryan), and voters identifying as ‘somewhat conservative’ (he gets 17% to 16% for Huckabee, 14% for Bush, and 11% each for Cruz and Ryan.) Cruz leads with ‘very conservative’ ones, getting 23% to 15% for Paul, 14% for Huckabee, 12% for Christie, and 10% for Ryan.
Huckabee actually has the highest favorability of the Republicans we tested, at 65/14. But only 20% of those with a positive opinion of him say he’d be their first choice for President. By contrast Christie only has a 47/29 favorability rating, but 37% who have a positive view of him also support him for President. There’s a greater intensity among those who do have a favorable opinion.
If you take Huckabee out of the equation Christie’s support increases to 23% with Cruz at 15%, Bush and Paul at 12%, Ryan at 11%, Rubio at 8%, Walker at 6%, and Jindal at 4%.
There continues to be no challenge to Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side. We threw Howard Dean and John Kerry into the equation for the first time this month but Clinton still gets 66% to 10% for Joe Biden, 6% for Elizabeth Warren, 2% each for Cory Booker, Andrew Cuomo, Dean, Kerry, and Martin O’Malley, and 1% for Brian Schweitzer. Clinton is at 58% or more with liberals, moderates, men, women, whites, African Americans, Latinos, seniors, and young voters.
If you take Clinton out of the mix Biden would still be the front runner even if Kerry and Dean were in the field. He gets 35% to 13% for Kerry and Warren, 7% for Booker and Cuomo, 4% for Dean and O’Malley, and 1% for Schweitzer. Warren leads a field where the other big names stay out with 24% to 14% for Cuomo, 13% for Booker, 7% for O’Malley, and 2% for Schweitzer.
Full results here, Republican results here, Democratic results here”
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/12/christie-leads-both-democratic-and-gop-fields.html
And this is news?
EFF Christie, I won’t vote.
I won’t vote for either in either a primary or a general election, never.
This is just the beginning of the Whisper Campaign.
For four years all we hear was Romney Frontrunner, Romney FrontRunner, Romney FrontRunner.
It gets the name into people’s heads and then when election time rolls around, they want to vote for who “can win” and the establishment lines up all the key endorsements to cement their self-fulfilled prophecy.
Not a single one of us wanted Romney. We supported literally everybody but him. But Romney it was to be and the people be damned.
The same thing is happening here with Christie.
A week old ham and cheese sandwich should be polling higher than Hillary.
No Cristy.
Period.
No, not even if the whole world burns...
Meaningless prattle
This is in the Democrat primary, right?
I don’t care how hard they try,it’s just not physically possible to shove Christy down my throat!!
Here comes the triangulation. You’d better vote for the R again, or you’re really voting for Hillary!
Oh, I’m sure he outweighs her....
Have they had the weigh-in yet?
The best of the worst.
Clinton would be president before I'll vote for Christie. better the liberal we know, than the one we don't.