Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2015 16:42:58 GMT -4
GOP DEBATE BUZZER BEATER IN CLEVELAND?
CLEVELAND — With just hours to go before the first presidential debate of the 2016 cycle a spate of new polls have shown up just ahead of the deadline.
Invitations to the Fox News/Facebook/Ohio Republican Party debate will be based on the most recent, methodologically sound polling of national Republican primary voters. In addition to a fresh poll from Fox News, pollsters for CBS News, and Bloomberg have dropped surveys ahead of the final tabulations.
The polls all agree that Donald Trump is a center-stage participant in the 9 p.m. ET debate for the top ten. And for perennial top-flight candidates like Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul, knocking them off that stage would take a statistical cataclysm.
But for three candidates — Chris Christie, John Kasich, and Rick Perry — they can’t yet be sure whether they will be on at 9 p.m. or with the rest of the herd at a 5 p.m.
-- INBOX ALERT: THIS EVENING, FOX NEWS FIRST WILL PUBLISH THE LIST OF INVITEES FOR BOTH DEBATES --
UPDATED REAL CLEAR POLITICS AVERAGE: GOP NOMINATION
Donald Trump, 23.2 percent; Jeb Bush, 12.8; Scott Walker, 10.6; Ben Carson, 6.6; Mike Huckabee, 6.6; Ted Cruz, 6.2; Marco Rubio, 5.2; Rand Paul, 4.8; Chris Christie, 3.4; John Kasich, 2.8; Rick Perry, 2.0; Rick Santorum, 1.4; Bobby Jindal, 1.2; Carly Fiorina, 1.0; Lindsey Graham, 0.4; George Pataki, N/A; Jim Gilmore N/A.
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