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Gallup Favorable vs. Familiarity Ratings for 16 Presidential Candidates

Gallup released some interesting numbers where it combined each candidate’s Favorability rating vs the Familiarity rating.  See chart below.

Some findings:
– Hillary Clinton is obviously the most known of the group (91% familiarity) but she also has the highest net favorability (+19% based on 55% favorable and 36% unfavorable)
– Jeb Bush and Joe Biden are well known but are not well liked.  They need to work to change people’s opinions.
– Mike Huckabee has the highest net favorability rating among the Republicans, and has average familiarity among all the candidates.
– Many Republicans’ favorability is recovering:
  • Ted Cruz was as low as -10 in October 2013 due to the government shutdown.  he is now at +2
  • Chris Christie peaked at +32 in June 2013, but “Bridgegate” brought him down to -9 earlier this year.  He is know at +1
  • Rick Perry got as low as -28 after the poor 2012 presidential debate, with his familiarity peaking at 82%.  It seems now people have forgotten, with his familiarity down to 58% and his favorability is now +6!

– It will be an uphill battle for Rick Santorum and Martin O’Malley as less than 50% of the people know who they are, but those that know them give them an unfavorable rating. 

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Fox News Poll – Perry making move in race for Republican nomination

A Fox News Poll conducted 7/20-7/22 has many questions about Obama, Congress, direction of country, etc.

Buried in it are some 2016 Presidential race items:

Republican nomination:
Similar to other polls, it shows the Republican field as a crowded group of 7 candidates with 3% separating 1st from 7th (basically the margin of error)

In this poll Jeb Bush and Rick Perry lead the pack at 12% followed by Rand Paul at 11%, Chris Christie at 10%, and finally Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz at 9%.

The thing that stood out the most was Rick Perry‘s climb from just 3% in the poll taken in December to the 12% in this poll.

The opposite was true of Chris Christie who won the December poll with 16% and dropped down to 10% in the most recent numbers.

Democratic nomination:
It remains a 3 horse race with Hillary Clinton in the lead (64%) followed by Joe Biden (12%) and Elizabeth Warren (9%)

Clinton actually dropped by 4% from December’s 68%
Warren gained 2% up from December’s 7%

Head to Head:
Only 4 head to head matchups were polled
Clinton +10 over Christie (50-40)
Clinton +11 over Paul (52-41)
Clinton +13 over Bush (52-39)
Clinton +19 over John Kasich (54-35).  Kasich only got 2% in the Republican nomination poll.

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CNN Poll with likely nominees and a Romney vs. Obama question

CNN Poll taken 7/18-7/20 of 1,012 adults by Telephone

Republican nomination:
Chris Christie leading possible Republican candidates at 13% followed by Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee at 12% and Rick Perry and Paul Ryan at 11%. Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz are next at 8%

Christie and Perry show the biggest gain since their February 2014 poll gaining 3%.
Marco Rubio had the biggest decline from 9% to 6%.
All of these moves are within the poll’s +/- 4.5% sampling error

July 18-20 May 29-June 1 May 2-4 Mar. 7-9 Jan. 31-Feb. 2
Christie 13% 8% 9% 8% 10%
Paul 12% 14% 13% 16% 13%
Huckabee 12% 11% 10% 10% 14%
Perry 11% 6% 8% 11% 8%
Ryan 11% 10% 12% 15% 9%
Bush 8% 12% 13% 9% 10%
Cruz 8% 9% 7% 8% 8%
Rubio 6% 8% 6% 5% 9%
Walker 5% 5% 7% NA NA
Santorum 3% 4% 2% 3% 4%
Someone else 6% 6% 4% 6% 8%
None/No one 2% 2% 4% 4% 3%
No Opinion 3% 5% 7% 5% 4%
Democratic nomination:

No surprise the Hillary Clinton leads by a long shot here at 67%.
What has changed in the last few months has been the emergence of Elizabeth Warren (10%) as the #2 candidate ahead of Joe Biden (8%).
Warren had the biggest improvement in the poll since September 2013 improving by 3% while Biden has decreased by 2%.

                              July 18-20  Nov. 18-20   Sept. 6-8
                                 2014           2013            2013
 Clinton                     67%            63%            65%
 Warren                    10%             7%              7%
 Biden                       8%              12%            10%
 Cuomo                     4%               5%              6%
 O’Malley                   2%               2%              2%
 Someone else (vol.)   6%               6%              4%
 None/No one (vol.)     2%               3%              5%
 No opinion                1%               3%              2%

Romney vs. Obama and Romney vs. Clinton:
One interesting question is if there was an election today, who would you vote for, Romney or Obama?  Romney wins 53% to 44%.

Similar question with Romney vs. Clinton.  Clinton wins 55% to 42%

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