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New Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Favorability Moves Up Among American Voters

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent public outings and TV appearances have helped to improve her favorability among voters.

The new survey shows Clinton is viewed favorably by 47 percent of voters, while 49 percent view her unfavorably.

While her numbers have remained fairly high among Democratic voters, this latest poll shows 4 points improvement with Independents and 2 points with Republicans in the last several weeks.

These numbers are similar to the current number two in the Democratic race, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who also showa fairly even numbers (35%/35%) in his favorable/unfavorable rating.

However, among only Democrats, Hillary holds a commanding lead in favorability compared to Sanders. Seventy-nine percent of Dems see her in a positive light while only 47% view Sanders favorably.

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Carly Fiorina Surges In Polls After Strong Debate Performance

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Two new polls show Carly Fiorina surging after a strong debate performance on Wednesday night.

According to a new Voter Gravity poll of 2,839 New Hampshire Republican Primary voters, they put Fiorina in the number one spot with 22%. Donald Trump trails her at 18%, and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson landing at third with 10%.

Additionally, a new CNN/ORC poll shows Trump has fallen 8 points in that national poll while Fiorina jumped an amazing 12 points.

Those numbers put Trump at 24%, Fiorina at 15% and Carson at 14%.

Sen. Marco Rubio saw a bounce from his showing at the debate jumping 8 points from 3% to 11%.

Thirty one percent of those polled said Trump was the loser of the debate, 52% said Fiorina was the victor.

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Poll: Sanders And Trump Continue To Extend Leads In Iowa & New Hampshire

A new YouGov poll shows Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and billionaire Donald Trump continuing to build leads in the first two primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

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Sanders now leads Clinton in Iowa by 10 points (43%-33%) and 22 points in New Hampshire (52%-30%).

Clinton still holds strong in South Carolina (46%-23%).

Donald Trump hits his highest marks yet in New Hampshire (40%) with Dr. Ben Carson a distant second at 12%. In Iowa, Carson is gaining ground on Trump, who leads Carson by only 4 points (29%-25%). Trump also holds solid ground in South Carolina, 36% to Carson’s 21%.

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Poll: Donald Trump Surges Past Hillary Clinton

A new SurveyUSA poll shows Donald Trump surging past Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical matchup.

From The Hill:

The poll by SurveyUSA finds that matched up directly, Trump garners 45 percent to Clinton’s 40 percent.

In other head-to-head matchups, Trump beats out Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by 44 percent to 40 percent; Vice President Joe Biden by 44 percent to 42 percent; and former Vice President Al Gore by 44 percent to 41 percent.

Trump’s surge past Clinton marks a dramatic turnaround in the polls. A CNN/ORC sampling of national voters in late June — just days after Trump entered the race — found that 59 percent supported Clinton to 34 percent picking Trump in a head-to-head race.

The same poll taken in July saw Clinton at 57 percent to Trump at 38 percent. And a version taken in August had Clinton with 52 percent support and Trump with 43 percent.

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Iowa: Ben Carson Ties Donald Trump in New Monmouth University Poll

Guess who’s going to be the next target for Mr. Trump?

Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson has surged in Iowa to pull into a dead heat with Donald Trump among likely Iowa Republican caucus goers.

Both Carson and Trump received 23 percent of likely caucusgoers’ support, according to the latest Monmouth University poll.

However, Carson leads Trump on favorability – Carson notches an 81% favorable rating while The Donald is down at 52%.

Coming in behind the two front runners, 10% of likely caucusgoers threw their support to Carly Fiorina, 9% to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and just 7% for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R).

At the end of the day (or this day at least) what does this all mean? That the top 3 GOP hopefuls are all non-politicians. That Republicans, at least in Iowa, are tired of career pols and want to maybe try something new?

According to a recent Gallup poll, a dismal 14% of Americans approve of the job the GOP-led Congress is doing.

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Poll: Trump Continues To Rise Above GOP Contenders

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows Donald Trump solidifying his lead among GOP White House contenders while former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush continues his downward spiral.

Trump gets a thumbs up from 28% of those surveyed, with his closest competitor retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 12%. Bush drops down to a mere 7% after leading in polls most of the year.

However, the survey does show some weaknesses for Trump in the areas of temperament and women’s issues. Sixty-four percent of GOP voters say The Donald lacks the “right kind of temperament to handle an international crisis” and 61% say he doesn’t care about the problems of women.

The same poll indicates Hillary Clinton shows some slippage as Sen. Bernie Sanders and an unannounced Vice-President Biden inch their way up.

Of note, however, is the stronger showing Biden makes over Trump in a head to head general election match up.

The poll shows Biden topping Trump 48% to 40%, compared to Clinton, who beats Trump 45% to 41%.

Additionally, the results show Biden would beat Bush, 45% to 39%, more than Clinton’s 42% to 40% over Bush.

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Poll: 57% Of Republicans Believe Donald Trump Will Be 2016 GOP Presidential Nominee

A new poll from Rasmussen shows 57% of likely Republican voters now expect real estate mogul Donald Trump to be the party’s eventual nominee for president in 2016.

From Business Insider:

According to a new Rasmussen poll out on Friday, 57% of likely Republican voters now think Trump is likely to be the party’s nominee. That includes 25% of voters who say it’s “very likely” he’ll win the nomination.

As Rasmussen notes, that’s up significantly from the 27% in July who thought it likely that Trump would be the nominee.

The real-estate magnate has defied expectations and maintained his front-runner status in the polls despite numerous controversies and few concrete policy proposals.

Since jumping to the front of the pack in July, Trump has consistently received more than 20% of the Republican vote nationally, with a Real Clear Politics average of 22% in recent polling. The next-closest candidate is former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), who has averaged about 10.7% of the vote recently.

The article makes a point to say the results of the poll aren’t who the Repubs WANT to be the nominee, but who they THINK will be the pick.

A recent CNN poll showed 58% of Republicans believe their party has a better chance to win with someone other than Trump.

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Poll: Donald Trump Within 6 Points Of Hillary Clinton

According to the latest CNN/ORC polling, Donald Trump’s lead in the Republican Party presidential race has boosted him to be within 6 points of Hillary Clinton.

He trailed Clinton by 16 points in a July poll, and narrowed that gap by boosting his standing among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (from 67% support in July to 79% now), men (from 46% in July to 53% now) and white voters (from 50% to 55%).

But Clinton still holds the cards overall in the race for the White House, leading four Republican contenders: She tops Trump and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker by 6 points each among registered voters, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush by 9 points, and businesswoman Carly Fiorina by 10 points.

The race in the Democratic primary has tightened also with Bernie Sanders notching 29% to Hillary’s 47%.

Vice-president Joe Biden received 14% support.

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News Round-Up: August 12, 2015

Some news stories you may have missed:

• Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne covers OUT and discusses his role as transgender pioneer Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.

• Former Texas governor and GOP presidential hopeful has had to stop paying his campaign staff due to lack of funds.

• Former President Jimmy Carter revealed today that he has cancer.

• Folks are petitioning Proctor & Gamble to run their cute, award-winning gay couple Tide detergent commercial in the US.

• New poll shows Trump lost a bit of ground in Iowa after last week’s debate; Jeb Bush dropped from 3rd to 7th; Marco Rubio jumps from 8th to 3rd in the early election state.

• The governor of Puerto Rico has issued executive orders banning discrimination against transgenders regarding emergency room treatment and drivers licenses.

• The homophobe who attacked two West Point graduates in New York City (and got his ass kicked) has been arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime. That’ll learn him.

• Openly gay Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco (the first openly gay poet to speak at a presidential inauguration) has been invited to read a new work at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana.