{"id":628,"date":"2015-04-11T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=628"},"modified":"2015-04-11T00:01:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T05:01:26","slug":"gop-candidates-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/11\/gop-candidates-watch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Candidates Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/182273\/gop-field-2016-lacks-star-power-past-campaigns.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">recent poll<\/a> indicates the GOP doesn\u2019t yet have a powerhouse contender for the nomination:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/content.gallup.com\/origin\/gallupinc\/GallupSpaces\/Production\/Cms\/POLL\/ft-8sc1yeegrwsdnwxdbyq.png?w=580\" alt=\"Favorable Ratings of (Potential) Republican Presidential Candidates, Among Republicans and Republican Leaners\" width=\"475\" height=\"685\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Underscoring the relative weakness of the potential 2016 crop of Republican candidates compared with their forerunners in prior campaigns, the candidates with the best scores at this early stage of the 2016 campaign would rank as only third best among the 2008 field, behind Giuliani and eventual nominee John McCain, and as fourth best in the 2000 campaign behind Bush, Dole and Steve Forbes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Certainly nothing close to Hillary in terms of being known.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be interesting to see how these numbers fluctuate as the contenders spread their message \u2013 and their missteps.\u00a0 The latest declared candidate, Rand Paul, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/182315\/rand-paul-begins-campaign-relatively-known-among-gop.aspx?utm_source=Politics&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed&amp;utm_campaign=tiles\" target=\"_blank\">is right in the thick of things<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/content.gallup.com\/origin\/gallupinc\/GallupSpaces\/Production\/Cms\/POLL\/nvf3o9dimeeszkokcbby_a.png?w=580\" alt=\"Familiarity and Favorability of Rand Paul, Based on Republicans\/Leaners\" width=\"475\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Correlating these numbers with the candidates as they reveal more of their agendas should give an interesting insight into the composition and collective thoughts of the GOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup\u2019s recent poll indicates the GOP doesn\u2019t yet have a powerhouse contender for the nomination: Underscoring the relative weakness of the potential 2016 crop of Republican candidates compared with their forerunners in prior campaigns, the candidates with the best scores at this early stage of the 2016 campaign would rank \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/11\/gop-candidates-watch-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}