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"Bush vs Clinton" - If The Election Were Held Today, Who Would Win?
According to a new poll conducted by Bloomberg Politics/Purple Insights there is now even less of a clear frontrunner for GOP presidential candidate with than there was several months ago. The reason: Marco Rubio’s support among GOP primary voters has been rising while Jeb Bush's has fallen off, depriving him of his leading spot in the polls.
The poll was conducted by Purple Insights, and found that while Rubio's support has doubled from 5% to 11% since a similar poll conducted in February, Bush has dropped 5% to 11%, putting him into second place behind Rand Paul and Scott Walker tied for first.
Some of the key highlights from the Bloomberg poll:
- Scott Walker leads when first and second choices among likely GOP primary voters are combined — a positive sign for his prospects in N.H. He's backed by 24% in that case, followed by 21% for Bush and Paul and 20% for Rubio.
- Paul leads the GOP field in support among independents, with 18% support. Bush is relatively weak among independents — while drawing support from 15% of Republicans, he has the backing of just 6% of independents.
- Trump was selected by 8% of likely GOP primary voters—up 5 percentage points from February.
- When asked to choose whether Clinton or Bush would be the next president, 33% of N.H. likely general-election voters said Clinton, 27% didn't venture a guess, 22% said someone else and 18% said Bush.
And while there is much confusion in the GOP field, Democrats are far more clear who they will pick as their candidate. With 62% support among likely Democratic primary voters - her best showing in this poll since November, Hillary Clinton has an insurmountable lead, suggesting the relentless wave of negative stories about the Clinton Foundation and her use of a private e-mail server have not hurt her among the party’s base.
Clinton’s closest New Hampshire primary competitor, Sen. Bernie Sanders, has 18%.
But since the outcome of the primaries has already been largely pre-determined, and America will soon to be presented with the next dynastic iteration of the "Bush vs Clinton" false dilemma, here is how the key (non) question breaks down as of this moment: if the 2016 election were held today, for whom would you vote?
It is not only Bush who is "close" to Clinton. According to the pol. three GOP candidates are now within three points of Hillary. In addition to leading Bush by a small margin, she is also ahead of Paul (46-43%) and Rubio (44-42%).
Bloomberg suggest that these are "warning signs" for Clinton. Since the last poll in February, three of the top-polling Republican candidates—Bush, Paul, and Rubio—have moved into striking distance and are now within the poll's margin of error of tying her in hypothetical match-ups.
Perhaps because nothing makes a competition more "credible" than giving the impression that there is an actual choice.
And while nothing shows more clearly that America has absolutely no real options if all it boils down once more is another case of "Bush vs Clinton", some naive, delued invidiuals - elsewhere known as "independents" - still believe that the US democratic machine is not only functioning but well greased.
“Clinton’s strength in the primary remains historic," said Purple Insights' Doug Usher. "But she’s facing the laws of political gravity among independent voters more quickly than her campaign might have hoped.”
Clinton's numbers with independent voters were destined to fall at some point, Usher said, as the campaign becomes more fully formed and intensely competitive.
Among independent general-election voters in New Hampshire, Clinton is tied or nearly tied with Bush, Paul and Rubio. She does better against Walker with this group, leading 42 percent to 36 percent.
Poll respondent Stephanie Korb, 57, a Republican dental assistant from Belmont, N.H., said she is leaning toward Rubio.
“He seems like a less offensive choice than the others,” she said. “I want to hear what the candidates want to do to turn this country around and you're not hearing that.”
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Part of Paul's strength is his ability to attract independent voters, a key group especially in New Hampshire, where they can vote in partisan primaries. He's supported by 18 percent of independents who said they were likely to vote in the Republican primary, easily the most of anyone in the field. That means he's going to want to see the state's Democratic primary remain a lopsided affair, prompting independents to stick with the action on the Republican side and continue to support him.
Bush is relatively weak among independents. While drawing support from 15 percent of Republicans, he has the backing of just 6 percent of independents. That's a potential problem for Bush, especially if he runs poorly in the Iowa caucuses set for the week before New Hampshire's primary. A Quinnipiac University poll released last week showed Bush in 7th place in Iowa, so he might need a top finish in New Hampshire to rebound.
One can read more about America's so-called decisionmaking process over at the Bloomberg website.
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In Bloomberg we trust to define our options for us at this early date.
My, that makes it much easier.
If voting actually made a cunt-hairs worth of difference in the world, it would be banned immediately.
Neither are suited to run this country called, the United States of America.
First Choice - H. Clinton. *facepalm* Yes, all of them are clowns. None of them is good. But Clinton...who the fuck is still voting for her? I don't get it. Holy Green Fox - I don't understand these Americans anymore. ils sont fous...crazy. Just crazy. Ver-rückt! Incredibile... man, I am not really biased against Americans, I actually like them...but this sucks. It won't matter in the end who is president, but I can't stand her and her family clan.
Jesse Ventura is the only real person who is also qualified to be President, imho. The surgeon is real, Rand Paul almost makes it via his medical background, but neither of those have the stature to stand up to our national security state.
Jesse Ventura is a Ron Paul mind with political and military experience, presence galore. No kidding, look for the guy on Youtube. 7 NYTimes best sellers. Watch the talk to the book store crowd, a reality-based mind.
You will, of course, therefore never hear his name in our MSM.
USA, you are gonna get fcked (as if you haven't been already).
Jeb or Hillary to take false flags, rape of the American people and war to all-time levels....should be fun for everyone.
Btw, youd think someone would have sent these foul and traitor families a strong deterrent message with a nail gun or two, by now....
300 million people to choose from and you keep on going back to the same two families?
The US is more f#cked than I thought.
It's fucking mind numbing, isn't it?
It's been obvious for so long one seriously has to be self medicated to be unaware of this ongoing fiasco.
"Clinton’s closest New Hampshire primary competitor, Sen. Bernie Sanders, has 18%'
Sanders is a Jew from Brooklyn, New York, as close to an OUT Communist as you will find.
Scott Walker was making some noise that SOUNDED good about immigration but the RNC is just like the DNC when it comes to the dispossession of the dwindling White majority.
Make no mistake this is the MAJOR GOAL of the Puppet Masters the end of the White race, just look at every single Northern, Western European nation, look at Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the U.S.
NOT by chance:
The KEY to understanding the otherwise inexplicable destruction of America, Europe and Australia
Look up Barbara Spectre Lerner. Here is a video of what she had to say about who is behind 3rd world immigration into all of Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Vq_e2Z1ug
There is another member of the same tribe, Anetta Kahane in Germany saying the same things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuYKtwnzG7M
MORON
hey, skippy. there are only a billion or so white people in the world. the other 6 billion are non-white. white people are clearly a cold weather product who are best left there. as a statistical exercise, the mobile ability and the rate of mobility of people says the white race is doomed naturally. i think that is what you white people call the end times.
I think I'm going to be sick.
i really wish a law could be passed to have the label "NONE OF THE ABOVE" clearly marked on the ballot for 2016
tyler, you're being an empire tool.
How do these nobodies wind up being president?!
The same way Clinton and Obama got in office
In a Bush v. Clinton matchup, I know who will win...
The advertising agencies and public image consultants.
I'm pretty sure it's the bankers who will be the big winners.
It's waaay too early to make any predictions because (1) Negative campaigning against Hitlery hasn't yet commenced, and (2) A LOT can happen between now & the primaries. My bet? It'll be Elizabeth Warren vs Rand Paul. Warren will win.
What does it matter who will win? The nuts on Zero Hedge will claim it's a conspiracy or the Jews are the reason they're impoverished or some other similar nonsense.
Zeroes, pull your heads out of your asses, take responsibility for your fucked up lives and stop blaming everyone else.
Hillary vs anyone else and she still gets 44%.
Hillary:
Old. Rich. White. Corrupt as hell.
Jeb:
Rich. White. Corrupt.
Younger, less corrupt ... choose Jeb, hold nose, pretend gun is at my head, push vote button. Life sucks - We NEED better options!
Don't matter. Which is blacker, the pot or the kettle?
No matter who wins, we lose.
Isn’t it curious how the DNC for the people’s party of diversity and choice can only come up with one possible contender for their party nom? Some choice that is. Especially since they already decided once before that Hillary isn’t their choice over the guy currently in office who most democrats aren’t too crazy about anymore either.
Jerry Seinfeld: “So, you’re telling me there really are houses available for rent in Tuscany?”
Mafia Boss: “Yes, this one.”
Oh well, I guess we can assume logic won't be one of the planks in the democratic platform in 2016.
Hillary: “What difference does it make, I’m President.”
If Christie, Trump (OMG), and Jeb are polling more than Cruz, then the GOProg leadership are justified in believing they can lead their special kind of Heifers to the trough.
The central banksters that own them two rug rats.
clinton or bush. not much of a choice, and frankly, dont know who would win and dont care for the choice. but I can tell you who the loser is gonna be. me, you and the rest of the country. preselected choices is not a democracy, nor a republic.
its an aristocracy, at best. an an incompetent one,which is worse.
Imagine that we had the perfect candidate for president: experience as the governor of a major state, photogenic, charming, witty, said all the right things, told inspiring stories and even his opposition laughed at his jokes. Imagine that he ran on a completely libertarian platform as the Republican candidate. Imagine that he was elected in a landslide. Would it make a difference?
This is exactly what happened in 1980 when Reagan was elected. Just a few of the things Reagan did while in office were: introduced privatization of government (which has led to, among other things, the prison/slavery system we have), introduced the neocons/CIA through his VP George Bush (former head of the CIA), made the SSN required identification, introduced the crack cocaine epidemic as a for profit enterprise to pay for military black ops, repopularized militarism and started the CIA wars with Iran Contra, created an economic miracle by borrowing that changed the US from the biggest creditor nation to the biggest debtor nation in the world, introduced trickle down economics, capped the income tax rate (which eventually led to the oligarchs), introduced the war on terrorism, (though he had to back down when it was exposed that he was himself selling weapons to the terrorists), introduced NAFTA, introduced the $10,000 cash withdrawal restriction, failed to eliminate the Dept of Education, as promised, and on and on and on and on. Reagan introduced us to most of the problems we are dealing with today - by making them sound like a great idea. Many give Reagan credit for "ending the cold war," but look at all the grief that has brought us. It enabled the neocons to attack something like 643 countries (OK, I'm exaggerating a little) and bring on the military industrial complex without opposition.
This isn't about Reagan. He's history. It's about voting. Starting with Woodrow Wilson, it has been an American tradition for the presidential candidates to say one thing and do exactly the opposite once in office. But this only works one way: No one has ever been elected saying they would do something unpopular and then reversing himself once in office by doing the right thing. How does voting make any sense at all? What is the purpose of voting except to make the argument that we have consented / voted for our own destruction?