I had no idea Mr Walker was a Colordo native, though that he comes from the Springs probably indicates something.
At any rate, at this point these kind of polls are both meaningless (what most voters know about any of these folk beyond a thimble of half-remembered news coverage is pretty trivial) but also important (because money will start to flow toward leaders in such polls, and away from the folk at the bottom).
Note that, despite the headline, the poll is of Republicans (and only those who voted in the last four primaries).
I have no idea, really, who the GOP is going to nominate. There were enough rises and falls of "sure things" in 2012 that anyone offering to bet money on it at this point should probably be taken up on the offer. A lot depends on who says what, who's caught saying what, and where the party as a whole (or its primary-voting contingent, more accurately) thinks it wants to go, and/or who they think can beat Clinton (the presumptive Dem candidate, though that's not quite as much of a lock as it might seem). It also depends on external events — crises arising (or averted), and what happens between Obama and Congress over the next several months (though not in any particularly predictable way).
Originally shared by +Doug Dunfee:
Woof. Just don't get it. Any of em.
Scott Walker leads in Colorado presidential poll
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has a commanding Colorado lead in the race for the 2016 Republican nomination, a new GOP poll shows. Jeb Bush comes in second.
I really, really hope it doesn't come down to Bush vs. Clinton. Or maybe it will, and a third party will get a real chance.
I wouldn't say its "meaningless" 🙂
These are the same hardcore establishment
anarchistsRepublicans that just put in Cory the wunderkid over one of the best Senators in DC.I just wish there was a single name on the list I could entertain stomaching. Its just a shitshow of lunatics, extremists, and hollow delusional Libertarians.
+Doug Dunfee True — in toto it's meaningful because it's such a miserable crop.
I'm tempted to say, if I had to hold my nose and choose one (other than my pick of "Other") I would go for Christie — who may be a bullying windbag and opportunist, but is not a doltish ideologue. Venality and ego can be handled; fundamentalist idiocy cannot.
(And, in that same vein, Walker is not the worst on the list.)
+Brittany Constable Clinton v Bush would be disappointing. Not sure if it would provoke some good third party action, though.
+Doug Dunfee Or, put another way: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+WistInfo/posts/HKRNGKbwG3k