Poll Finds Rubio Performing Best Against Hillary Clinton

El senador Marco Rubio, aspirante a la candidatura republicana a la presidencia, habla sobre el reciente plan de reforma fiscal, el miércoles 15 de abril de 2015, en la Fundación Heritage en Washington. (Foto AP/Molly Riley)
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) performs the best against Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical presidential race, only trailing her by two percentage points, according to a Quinnipiac University National poll released on Thursday.

In the matchup between Rubio and Clinton, 43 percent of voters supported Rubio and 45 percent supported Clinton. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) trailed behind Clinton by four points, while former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker each trailed Clinton by five points.

Rubio led the pack of potential Republican nominees with 13 percent support from Republican voters. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush received 13 percent support and Walker claimed 11 percent.

Clinton leads the Democratic field with 60 percent support from Democratic voters. Vice President Joe Biden claimed just 10 percent support, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed 8 percent, and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley claimed 3 percent.

Quinnipiac surveyed 1,353 registered voters nationwide April 16-21 via phone with a margin of error plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.

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  1. Avatar for pine pine says:

    ROTFLMAO! These pollsters are really something.

  2. Wisconsin’s governor is Gov. Scott Walker, or Gov. Walker, but not “Gov. Scott.” Unless, that is, Walker and Florida’s Lizard King have merged into a single “Gov. Scott” entity that will run on a platform of slashing every social program imaginable to man…

  3. So, Hillary Clinton gets 8 points less vote than Obama did in 2012? Not bloody likely. Somebody needs to closely examine this pollster.

  4. This “branding” of personages as product is kind of silly with the Age of Consumerism winding down. Worse still, polling assumes such a thing as brand loyalty. That conceivably goes as far as party affiliation, but as we’ve seen with the Tea Party, not even that far. If we do have brand loyalties left, it is to big durable goods like car makes. By that token, the main voter demand is for something that works reliably, like a Volvo station wagon or an old Ford pickup truck. Rubio looks like he’s going to be spending lots of time in the shop even without a major mechanical failure caused by carelessness. Hillary, even with high mileage, looks like she’s good for another 100,000 miles. Moreover, both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama brought some stoner cred to the Democratic voter base, so mile-highage may be more important than high-mileage anyway.

  5. Polls are like ’ most ’ politicians : they lie . And this is a hypothetical poll : which means nothing .

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