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                            September 18, 2015GOP Voters Up Carson’s, Fiorina’s Chances for the Nomination
Jeb Bush is treading water, but Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina appear to have dramatically improved their chances for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Carson is now in a virtual tie with recent front-runner Donald Trump.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of Likely Republican Voters now think Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, is likely to win the Republican nomination, with 16% who say it’s Very Likely. Just 25% thought Carson was likely to end up as the nominee when he formally announced for the race in early May.

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                            September 17, 2015GOP Debate: Who's Still Standing on the Morning After?
Debate or endurance test?
Last night’s Republican presidential campaign debate was a three-hour marathon that was reduced near the end to such penetrating questions as what woman should be on the $10 bill and what nickname would you choose for the Secret Service if you become president?
September 16, 2015Debate Night: Republicans Will Be Watching, But Will It Matter?
The Republican candidates for president will battle it out in their second debate tonight on CNN. The party’s voters are all ears, but can the debate change their minds?

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                            September 16, 2015Debate Showdown: Bush vs. Trump
Jeb Bush showed he means business at tonight’s Republican presidential debate when he peeled open his shirt at a public appearance earlier this week to reveal an old Reagan/Bush ’84 campaign T-shirt.

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                            September 14, 2015Are Sanders’ Chances Improving For 2016?
Support for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders among Democrats has surged over the summer, but do voters in his party think he is any more likely to win the presidential nomination in 2016?
September 14, 2015Are Democrats Ready for Biden?
Democrats still aren’t clamoring for Vice President Joe Biden to jump into the race for their party’s presidential nomination.
September 9, 2015Trump Tops Clinton in Economic Trust
They remain in the lead for their respective party’s presidential nomination, but how do voters rate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and billionaire businessman Donald Trump head-to-head on specific issues facing the nation? Trump holds a double-digit lead in voter trust when it comes to the economy and immigration and is slightly ahead in the area of national security. Clinton holds small leads on social policy and the environment.
September 9, 2015GOP Voters Question Whether Jeb Agrees More with Hillary Than With Them
Democrats are more confident than Republicans that Jeb Bush will be next year’s GOP presidential candidate, perhaps in part because a lot of Republicans suspect Bush agrees more with Hillary Clinton than with the average voter in his own party.
September 1, 2015Do Democrats Still Expect Obama To Endorse Hillary?
Voters still think President Obama and Hillary Clinton agree on most things, but they’re not as confident as they were a year ago that the president’s going to endorse Clinton to be the next Democratic presidential nominee.

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                            August 27, 2015Are Democrats Ready for Elizabeth Warren to Run?
Politically, she’s Bernie Sanders with charisma. Now, with Hillary Clinton’s legal troubles, do Democrats want Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to reconsider and jump into their party’s presidential race?

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                            August 26, 2015Sanders Gains Big As Clinton Falls
Hillary Clinton's numbers continue to fall, while support for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has surged significantly in Rasmussen Reports' latest look at the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
August 25, 2015Should Hillary Clinton Suspend Her Campaign?
Growing national security questions about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server during her time as secretary of State are drowning out much of her message as a presidential candidate and causing many of her fellow Democrats to worry about the future of her campaign. Is it time for Clinton to put her campaign on temporary hold?

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                            August 12, 2015GOP Voters On Gilmore: Jim Who?
Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore quietly entered the crowded race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in late July, but GOP voters see little chance that he will be the nominee.

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                            August 12, 2015Should Democrats Have More Debates?
Democrats are planning to hold six debates for their 2016 presidential candidates, but at least two of the candidates – Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley - say that’s not enough.

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                            August 12, 2015Carly Up, Trump Down
The post-debate picture has a new contender in the top 10 of Republican presidential contenders, while the leader of the pack has taken a fall.

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                            August 11, 2015Has ‘The Donald’ Peaked?
Donald Trump remains the leader in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his support has fallen by a third over the past week-and-a-half. Carly Fiorina is now near the front of the pack.
August 7, 2015Are the Republicans Losing Already?
Republican presidential hopefuls brandishing their social conservative credentials at their first debate last night may already have sown the seeds of defeat.
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August 6, 2015Biden vs. Hillary
Worried that the controversies surrounding Hillary Clinton are wounding her chances for the presidency, some Democrats have begun pushing Vice President Joe Biden’s candidacy. Democratic voters are closely divided over a Biden presidential bid, but voters in general think he’d make a better president than Clinton.

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                            August 5, 2015Debate Time – Will Republicans Be Watching?
Much already has been made of the upcoming debates between the Republican candidates for president, but will GOP voters be tuning in? Are they ready for 20 or more debates like there were four years ago?

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                            August 5, 2015Rasmussen Reports Names the Debate Line-Up – Last Week
Fox News announced late yesterday the lineup for the first Republican presidential debate. Rasmussen Reports announced the same lineup last Thursday morning.