Those numbers represent a dramatic turnaround from the November poll, in which Carson led the Republican field in with 22 percent, while Trump and Rubio each had19 percent of voters’ support.
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However, 41 percent of those polled say they don’t know enough or have an opinion about Senator Johnson; 25% say the same about Feingold.
The survey of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers showed Clinton with a 48 percent to 45 percent lead over Sanders, unchanged from a poll conducted earlier this month. The margin of error in the poll is +/- 4.0 percentage points.
Clinton led Rubio and Cruz by 1 point and Trump by 9 points.
Bernie Sanders garnered the support of 15 percent of Democratic voters, while 26 percent said they didn’t know.
Many Republicans complained that Mr. Perot’s entry into the 1992 race hurt their candidate more than the Democrat, Mr. Clinton, but it is less clear what would happen with Mr. Bloomberg.
It’s actually easy to do, especially after chatting with some of the thoughtful people standing in line Thursday night at Drake University to see Trump, 69, headline his own rally rather than attend a Fox News debate.
In New Hampshire, where voters will go to the polls on February 9th, Trump has a double digit lead (31%) over Cruz (12%). “The last viable independent candidate, Ross Perot, got as high as 39% in the polls, finally settling at 19% on Election Day”. A respective 10 percent, meanwhile, said they would instead back Clinton and Bloomberg. Democrats vote on February 27.
In South Carolina, Trump continues his strong showing, with 36 percent.
Republican primary voters were asked who they thought was most likely to win the GOP presidential nomination and 49% said Trump.
The latest Marquette Law School poll finds Gov. Scott Walker’s approval rating stands mired at 38 percent, while 57 percent of registered voters in the state disapprove of the job he’s doing. Martin O’Malley is at just 1 percent. It had a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.
“If Michael Bloomberg decides to run for president as an independent candidate, he will begin the campaign just a handful of points behind the front-runners from BOTH political parties”, Luntz said in a statement accompanying the poll.
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Somewhat ominously for the GOP, almost half of Trump’s current supporters among leaned Republicans say they’d definitely vote for him as an independent, with another quarter saying they’d consider it.
