Quinnipiac national poll

[MT Treasurer]

Clinton 46, Trump 41
Clinton 45, Cruz 45
Rubio 48, Clinton 41

Sanders 49, Trump 39
Sanders 46, Cruz 42
Sanders 43, Rubio 43

Sanders 35, Trump 36, Bloomberg 15
Sanders 37, Cruz 36, Bloomberg 15

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2321

[Mr. Morden]

Here's the poll, ftr:

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2321

[Tender Branson]

#SocialistCodgerOutperformingLyingDeceivingBroadAgain

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Rubio vs. Clinton: Likely R
Any Trump nomination: Likely D
Otherwise: Tossup (Tilts R in Rubio vs. Sanders, Tilts D in Cruz vs. Sanders)

[The Other Castro]

While true that national polls are meaningless at this point for general election results, these numbers are bad news for Clinton in the primary given that a major part of her campaign has been pointing to polls saying she's the most electable candidate.

[DrScholl]

Rubio would be destroyed in the general one his nasty past got out, so Clinton would have nothing to worry about.

[pbrower2a]

Rubio would be destroyed in the general one his nasty past got out, so Clinton would have nothing to worry about.

Yawn. Attacks on his "past" would only backfire...

Marco Rubio -- the Republican analogue to Mike Dukakis as a pol.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Please nominate Trump Republicans.

[BM]

#SocialistCodgerOutperformingLyingDeceivingBroadAgain

Once the public gets to know him and the Republican attack ads flood the airwaves that obviously wouldn't be the case.

He's the biggest useful idiot to the GOP there is right now, when they're only focused on destroying Hillary Clinton

[DrScholl]

Rubio would be destroyed in the general one his nasty past got out, so Clinton would have nothing to worry about.

Yawn. Attacks on his "past" would only backfire...

I'm not talking about attacks, I'm talking about optics. If there are shoes to drop, the whispers would be devastating.

[DrScholl]

Rubio would be destroyed in the general one his nasty past got out, so Clinton would have nothing to worry about.

Yawn. Attacks on his "past" would only backfire...

Marco Rubio -- the Republican analogue to Mike Dukakis as a pol.

This too. He'd look really weak debating Clinton.

[HillOfANight]

Rubio would be destroyed in the general one his nasty past got out, so Clinton would have nothing to worry about.

Yawn. Attacks on his "past" would only backfire...

Depends on what's there.  If they attack based on what's out now, that would be really dumb, but they could be sitting on something much worse?

"Could be" is key. If Bush or anyone had anything it would have been used already. What could be worse than writing an essay about gang raping women, or honeymoons in the Soviet Union?

[ProgressiveCanadian]

#SocialistCodgerOutperformingLyingDeceivingBroadAgain

Once the public gets to know him and the Republican attack ads flood the airwaves that obviously wouldn't be the case.

He's the biggest useful idiot to the GOP there is right now, when they're only focused on destroying Hillary Clinton

This.  I could seriously see Sanders winning only VT after a foreign policy debate with Rubio.

LOL 49 state sweep?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Oh look.  Complete been-in-the-national-spotlight-for-months unknown Bernie Sanders outperforms the inherently electable Queen Of Sachs and her sparkling ~40% favorability rating yet again!

I'M FLOORED!

[President Johnson]

LOL, Bernie won't beat TRUMP, and certainly not by ten points. National polls are meaningless anyway, but especially ten months before the polls open.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Hilary is probably our best bet, but she has a legal issue. Bernie Sanders didnt go after her on that earlier. And if Sanders wins Bloomberg probably wants to run. But, lets see what the polls gonna be after his great victory, Tues in NH.

[RR1997]

Lol @ Trump getting demolished in nearly every single GE poll.


BUT..BUT.. I THOUGHT THAT TRUMP WAS SUPPOSED TO WIN MICHIGAN, NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA BECAUSE MUH WHITE WORKING CLASS VOTERS.

[pbrower2a]

This is old stuff about Rubio -- but he was heavily entangled in the defense of the bad for-profit schools that encouraged prospective students to take out huge loans for vastly-overpriced educational programs with the federal government guaranteeing to collect the funds for the education (even if the educational results were abject failure) from the student ripped off.

The student has huge debt and no marketable skill.

(from Bloomberg, roughly a year ago)

"While I commend the Department's desire to protect our nation's students from fraudulent and malicious activity by any institution of higher education, regardless of tax status, I believe the Department can and should demonstrate leniency as long as Corinthian Colleges, Inc. continues to expeditiously and earnestly cooperate by providing the documents requested."

Founded in 1995 by five for-profit education operators, the company once ran more than 100 campuses across the country, including in Rubio's home state of Florida. (He described his letter as written on behalf of his constituents.) In February, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced $480 million in debt relief for students it deemed were "harmed by Corinthian's predatory lending scheme."

Mitchell responded to Rubio on April 2, explaining that the federal investigation found "systemic deficiencies" in the company's operations and mentioned that the organization had "admitted to falsifying placement rates and/or grade and attendance records at various institutions."

....

"Senator Rubio felt it was important to protect the thousands of students in Florida from being punished and having their educations disrupted while the investigation was underway," Rubio spokeswoman Brooke Sammon told Bloomberg Politics in a statement. "His priority has always been to improve access to higher education options and increase transparency ‎in higher education."

Corinthian Colleges contributed $5,000 to Rubio's Reclaim America PAC during the 2014 election cycle, according to the Center For Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan organization that tracks political donations.

....

Rubio is a noted supporter of "alternative" forms of higher education, describing them in various speeches and statements as a way to help middle class Americans deal with rising tuition costs in an era where college degrees are increasingly vital to success. In 2014, he introduced legislation to encourage federal agencies to hire people with "alternative educational experience." As recently as two days ago, Rubio tweeted about his education proposals. Ironically, his message mirrored that of Corinthian's critics.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/ar...thian-colleges

(Note: the Obama Administration cut off access to federal student loans to these schools, effectively bankrupting the scam  artists.