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HAMDEN, Conn., Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a sizable lead over Republican rivals in a poll released Wednesday and a small one over Hillary Clinton.
Nineteen percent of Republican respondents to the Quinnipiac University poll said the former Massachusetts governor was their choice for candidate. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was in second place with 11 percent.
No other candidate broke 10 percent. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Dr. Ben Carson were tied at 8 percent.
If Romney is not in the mix, Bush gets 14 percent, Christie 11 percent, Carson 9 percent and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky 8 percent.
On the Democratic side, Clinton is still the overwhelming favorite. More than half, 57 percent, said they would vote for her, 13 percent for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and 9 percent for Vice President Joe Biden.
Clinton is in a statistical tie with Romney, with 45 percent selecting him and 44 percent the former secretary of state. Against Christie, she leads 43-42, with bigger leads of 5 percent or more against other Republican possibilities.
Tim Malloy, the poll's assistant director, cautioned that Romney still has great name recognition because of his 2012 run.
"Remember Mitt? Republicans still have Gov. Mitt Romney top of mind and top of the heap in the potential race for the top job," Malloy said. "But Jeb Bush looms large in second place," Malloy added. "With New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie also in the mix, it looks like Republican voters are favoring more moderate choices for 2016."
Malloy pointed out that Romney and Christie now look like Clinton's strongest rivals.
Quinnipiac, in Hamden, Conn., conducted the poll of 1,623 registered voters between Nov. 18 and Nov. 23. The margin of error is 2.4 percentage points for the entire sample, 4 points for the 610 Democrats and 3.7 points for the 707 Republicans.
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Romney tops Republican field in new poll, edging out Clinton
WASHINGTON Mitt Romney, the Republican Partys unsuccessful presidential nominee in 2012, leads the field for the 2016 election among Republican voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.
The former Massachusetts governor would have a slight edge over potential Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton by 45 percent to 44 percent in a general election, the poll found.
Among possible Republican candidates, Romneys 19 percent put him ahead of former Florida governor Jeb Bush with 11 percent, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ben Carson each with 8 percent each, and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky with 6 percent.
Carson, a former neurosurgeon with no political experience, is a conservative commentator and author of One Nation, which topped the New York Times best-seller list in June.
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee all had 5 percent, while 16 percent of those questioned were undecided.
With Romney out of the picture, Bush polled 14 percent with Christie at 11 percent and Carson at 9 percent.
Clinton, the former secretary of state, dominated the field for Democratic voters in the poll with 57 percent, followed by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts with 13 percent and Vice President Joe Biden with 9 percent.
The telephone poll, taken Nov. 18-23, questioned 707 Republicans and 610 Democrats with a margin of error of about 4 percentage points.
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Published November 25, 2014
Republican Senate candidate Bill Cassidy cast an early ballot Tuesday, seeking to draw renewed attention to a race that has fallen off newspaper front pages and away from people's minds as they plan holiday meals and shopping schedules.
Cassidy is the front-runner in the race against Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu, and he's hoping to maintain that position with a series of high-profile visits from GOP heavyweights in advance of the Dec. 6 election.
Louisiana's last-in-the-nation Senate race won't decide party control of the Senate. But Cassidy said voters still should view it as a way to show their displeasure with President Barack Obama's policies and continue the Republican surge in the midterm election cycle.
"This is Louisiana's chance to put an exclamation mark behind what the rest of the country has said," the GOP congressman said before early voting, with his daughter in tow.
Landrieu is trying to gain ground with attack ads against Cassidy, but she faces an uphill climb to a fourth term. Fifty-six percent of voters chose one of the Republican candidates in the Nov. 4 open primary, and Landrieu is the last Democratic statewide elected official still standing in a state trending more Republican each election cycle.
The Democratic senator has hit Cassidy with TV spots that question his fitness for office, show him stumbling over words, challenge budget cuts he's supported and describe his opposition to a minimum wage hike and equal pay legislation.
In response, Cassidy continues to tie Landrieu to the unpopular president.
Republicans have rallied strongly around Cassidy's candidacy, with a string of visits from likely GOP presidential candidates, including Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Texas Gov. Rick Perry was in Louisiana on Tuesday, attending three rallies with Cassidy.
"It just shows that we are unified as a conservative movement," Cassidy said.
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Republican voters havent given up on Mitt Romney for president, putting him at the head of the pack of the potential GOP field for 2016 in a new national poll.
Mr. Romney led with 19 percent support in the Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 11 percent. New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie and famed neurosurgeon and conservative commentator Ben Carson tied in fourth place with 8 percent.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to dominate with 57 percent support from her partys voters in the poll. Liberal firebrand Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts placed a distant second with 13 percent, followed by Vice President Joseph Biden with 9 percent.
Mr. Romney, who ran twice before and was the 2012 GOP standard-bearer who lost to President Obama, has shied from talk of another run. But Republican insiders speculate he will jump in the race if Mr. Bush stays on the sidelines.
No other Republican in the crowded field of potential contenders topped 6 percent in the poll, which found 16 percent of primary voters still undecided.
The poll found that the tea party has fallen out of favor among Republican voters, as has tea party champion Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican eyeing a presidential run.
About 45 percent of voters reported an unfavorable view of the tea party and just 27 percent had a favorable view. Similarly, Mr. Cruz got a negative 21 percent to 29 percent favorability rating, the lowest rating of any potential presidential candidate.
Republicans still have Gov. Mitt Romney top of mind and top of the heap in the potential race for the top job, said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. It looks like Republican voters are favoring more moderate choices for 2016.
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