Bush, GOP Establishment Don’t Understand Voters’ Frustration
The Bush family, Jeb’s political operation and major donors to his campaign met this weekend in Texas. This meeting comes on the heels of the Bush campaign’s massive layoffs and…
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New Poll: Trump Has a HUGE Iowa Problem
The latest CBS News/YouGov poll has Trump and Carson tied at 27 points each. But if you dig deeper, it becomes clear Trump has a huge and growing Iowa problem.…
Trump the Inevitable Nominee? Many Voters Starting to Think So.
This past Wednesday marked the release of the most recent national polling from The Washington Post and ABC News. Little has changed in the overall numbers: Donald Trump still leads…
It’s Official: The Carson Surge Is Real
When Maggie first noted a Quinnipiac poll showing Carson up 8 points in Iowa, my first thought was that it could be an outlier. A new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register…
Baseless Conjecture Alert! It’ll Be Carson vs. Rubio for the Nomination
Frank, you talked about Carson’s recent surge in Iowa yesterday and made some great points. At this point, it seems that Trump and Carson are functioning as an amorphous blob candidate.…
Carson Surges to Eight Point Iowa Lead Over Trump
The latest Quinnipiac poll (subscription necessary) of 574 likely caucus participants taken Oct. 14-20 shows Ben Carson has surged to an 8 point lead over Trump in Iowa, 28 percent to 20…
Two More Polls Confirm Trump, Carson Still Clear Front Runners
Nick reported earlier today on the latest NBC/WSJ national poll and noted that Donald Trump and Ben Carson appear to be pulling away from the field. Two more national polls also released today also…
George W. Bush on Ted Cruz: “I Just Don’t Like the Guy”
It was a typical night at a Bush campaign fundraiser…until Jeb’s older brother laid into Ted Cruz. Donors attending the Denver fundraiser reported that George Bush’s half hour of unscripted…
Trump, Carson Expand Support in New Poll
Political outsiders continue to dominate in an NBC/WSJ poll this month. Rather than flagging, the new poll shows Donald Trump and Ben Carson actually expanded their base since last month’s…
Campaign 2016 by the Numbers: Carson, Cruz Shock Everyone
Third quarter fundraising reports are in, and we have the numbers for you. As we said last week when these fundraising numbers first started trickling in, these numbers do matter — fundraising allows…
New Poll: Trump Maintains Lead, But Low Favorability Haunts Campaign
CBS released another national poll Friday, and the results are a mixed bag for Republican front runner Donald Trump. On the surface, the new poll shows that Trump remains the…
AEI’s James Pethokoukis Ignorantly Bashes Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush recently showed a dignified open-mindedness toward the gold standard. He thereby is much more to be commended than Neo-Keynesian columnists like Matt O’Brien — or “Reformocons” like James…
Who’s Winning (and Who’s Losing) the Money Race?
It’s still early, but we’re starting to see early returns from the presidential campaigns’ fundraising numbers for the third quarter. Ben Carson absolutely dominated with $20 million raised, mostly from small-dollar…
Trump, Bush, and Fiorina All Crush Hillary in Iowa Poll
Yes, Fiorina crushes Clinton in Iowa, but so do other GOP candidates. Here’s some more fascinating data from the state polls. If the 2016 general election were held today, Hillary…
Bush Defends the Pope, Kim Davis, and the Bakers and Florists
Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump are both to the left of. . . Jeb Bush when it comes to defending the livelihoods of gay marriage dissenters, as Bush made clear…
Values Voters Stand With Ted Cruz
Senator Ted Cruz won the Values Voter straw poll — for the third year in a row. Cruz won 35 percent, while Dr. Ben Carson finished second with 18 percent,…
Bush Waves White Flag on Planned Parenthood, While Fiorina Says Stand and Fight
Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina were on the Sunday talk shows this weekend (Bush on “Fox News Sunday” and Fiorina on NBC’s “Meet the Press”), and what a contrast there…
New Poll: Carson Ties Trump
The new WSJ/NBC poll is small — just 230 likely GOP voters — with a margin of error of 6 percent. So take the news with a grain of salt, but…
Is Bush the Next to Go?
Frank, you are undoubtedly right, oh master political big brainiac, that the Iowa poll is much worse news for Bush than Trump — although the fact that Iowa GOP voters…
New Iowa Poll: Trump Loses to Almost Everybody in Head-to-Head Match-Up
Public Policy Polling released a new Iowa poll yesterday. Donald Trump remains the front runner at 24 percent. But hidden behind that good news for Trumpsters are growing signs that an…
