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New Iowa poll has Jeb Bush in 4th place, Marco Rubio tied for 5th place

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Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio continue to struggle in the polls — this time in a new Quinnipiac survey of voters in Iowa, the site of the first election in the Republican race for president. As has been the case in recent polls, Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson lead the field.  Trump is at 27 percent in the Hawkeye State, while Carson is just six percentage points behind with 21 percent. Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is next with 9 percent. Then comes…

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Central Florida grassroots Dems get busy early for Bernie Sanders

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The Florida Presidential Primary is six months away, and while the focus has been on Iowa and New Hampshire in the daily “he blinked … she said …” second-by-second coverage, the faithful in the Sunshine State are getting ready, none more than those working for the second-place runner for the Democrats. Already groups of supporters for Republicans Ben Carson, the former brain surgeon, and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul have the only active and working organizations in Polk County and the…

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Time to worry? New CNN national poll has Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio both getting buried

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It’s still the summer (of Trump), with more than four months to go before any registered Republican voter actually goes to the polls. But at what point do the campaigns of Florida favorite sons Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio start growing seriously concerned? Conventional wisdom espoused by political observers in Florida and around the nation is that Bush could still be the likely GOP nominee when the Republicans hold their convention in Cleveland next June. If so, however, it will be…

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New national GOP poll: Donald Trump 30%, Ben Carson 18%; Carson only one to beat Trump one-on-one

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Dr. Ben Carson‘s movement in the GOP presidential polls isn’t happening just in Iowa. A new Monmouth University national poll of the Republican presidential candidates released on Thursday shows the staying power of  real estate tycoon Donald Trump. He leads the field with 30 percent support — that’s 4 points higher than a similar poll taken before the first GOP debate last month. Carson has now slipped into second place with 18 percent, the only other candidate in double digits.…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.3.15 — The DNC’s non-debate strategy

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There’s excitement in some quarters this week as it now appears that Carly Fiorina will appear in the second Republican presidential debate taking place in 13 days in Los Angeles (OK, Simi Valley, officially). Meanwhile, we’re still more than five weeks away before the first Democratic presidential debate — and why is that? While some may say that the reason Martin O’Malley is making such an issue out of the paucity of announced forums that might help him climb over two percent in the…

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Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are tied for fifth place in latest Iowa poll

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The latest poll out of Iowa is not good news for the two Florida Republicans competing in the GOP presidential primary contest. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are tied in fifth place with 6 percent of the vote in a Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll released over the weekend. Real estate mogul Donald Trump continues to lead in this survey with 23 precent support. Most surprisingly, retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson is now just five points back in second place with 18 percent…

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Rand Paul: A humanitarian in Haiti, a pit bull in 2016

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Even while fighting blindness in the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere this week, Republican presidential contender Rand Paul intensified political attacks against rivals in both parties, vowing to continue pressing billionaire businessman Donald Trump in particular as the Kentucky senator embraces the role as the GOP’s leading pit bull. An ophthalmologist by training, Paul left Haiti on Wednesday afternoon after spending four days on a humanitarian mission to the island nation. From a small urban clinic guarded by a…

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