"GOP Field Hasn't Been This Split In 40 Years"

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GOP Field Hasn't Been This Split In 40 Years


By Harry Enten at Five Thirty Eight

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/a-historically-divided-republican-field-for-2016/

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How rare is such an evenly divided field? I checked polling since 1976, the first year in which both the Republican and Democratic nominations were decided completely by voters and not by party leaders.

It’s rare.

In surveys conducted from January through March of the preceding midterm election year (so for the 2012 election, we’re looking at polls from Jan. 1 through March 31 of 2010), the Republican atop the polls has always averaged at least 23 percent of the vote.

But not this year. Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a presidential aspirant in 2008, leads current polling with 14.8 percent. Even if we include Democratic nomination contests, 14.8 percent basically ties for the lowest leader on record (right near the 15 percent Mario Cuomo had in 1992).




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[Loudly]

1. At least those bastards have choices.

What do we have??

[Gothmog]

2. I thought that 2012 was very split

Without Christie, the business faction of the GOP has to get Jeb to run or get Romney to come out of retirement

[Jamaal510]

3. The only thing

they all can agree on today is their animosity towards Obama and Democrats/liberals in general.