CLBR Segment 2: Wash Times’ Columnist Ralph Hallow on 2016
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Ralph Hallow returns to CLBR fresh from the Conservative Political Action Committee convention and will give us his insights on the 2016 race.
Ralph is the Washington Time’s Chief political writer and served on the Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Washington Times editorial boards, was Ford Foundation Fellow in Urban Journalism at Northwestern University, resident at Columbia University Editorial-Page Editors Seminar and has filed from Berlin, Bonn, London, Paris, Geneva, Vienna, Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Belgrade, Bucharest, Panama and Guatemala
Ralph is also author of the humorous Presidential Follies: Famous Americans Who Would Be President, and Some Who Should Think Again (Barnes and Noble Link).
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The 2016 Field
Below is a summary of the Republican field with odds from Dignitas and poll results from CPAC‘s Straw Poll and the latest McClatchy/Marist poll.
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Fmr Ambassador John Bolton (66) Maryland |
Fmr Gov. Jeb Bush (62) Florida |
Ben Carson MD (63) Maryland |
Dignitas: 3.5 to 1 M&M – 19% CPAC – 8.3% |
Dignitas: 15 to 1 M&M – 4% CPAC -11.5% |
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Gov. Chris Christie (52) New Jersey |
Sen. Ted Cruz (44) Texas |
Carly Fiorina (60) California |
Dignitas: 7 to 1 M&M – 6% CPAC – 2.8% |
Dignitas: 15 to 1 M&M – 4% CPAC -11.5% |
M&M – 2% CPAC -3% |
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (59) South Carolina |
Fmr Gov. Mike Huckabee (59) Arkansas |
Gov. Bobby Jindal (43) Louisiana |
M&M: 10% | Dignitas: 10 to 1 CPAC -1% |
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Gov. John Kasich (62) Ohio |
Fmr Gov. Sarah Palin (51) Alaska |
Fmr. Gov. George Pataki (69) New York |
CPAC: 0.8% | ||
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Sen. Rand Paul (52) Kentucky |
Fmr. Gov. Rick Perry (65) Texas |
Sen. Marco Rubio (43) Florida |
Dignitas: 4.5-1 M&M – 7% CPAC -25.7% |
Dignitas: 5 to 1 M&M – 3% CPAC -1.1% |
Dignitas: 17 to 1 M&M – 5% CPAC -1.1% |
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Fmr Sen. Rick Santorum (56) Pennsylvania |
Sen. Jeff Sessions (68) Alabama |
Gov. Scott Walker (47) Wisconsin |
Dignitas: 25 to 1 M&M – 2% CPAC 4.3% |
Dignitas: 8 to 1 M&M – 18% CPAC 21.4% |