Jeb Bush Lacks Name Recognition, Poll Finds

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Jeb Bush may be the son of a former president, the brother of another former president and a former two-term governor of one of the biggest states, but it seems Americans may not be all that familiar with him.

About 42 percent of voters nationwide do not know enough about the Florida governor to form an opinion of him, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Friday, which surveyed what voters thought of a number of 2016 potential presidential contenders.

In comparison, seven percent of voters said they hadn’t heard enough about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to have an opinion of her. Nineteen percent of voters didn’t know enough about Vice President Joe Biden and 42 percent don’t know much about Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R).

In a hypothetical match up between Clinton and Bush, Clinton would win 48 percent to 40 percent of the vote.

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