Marist/McClatchy: Christie and Huckabee top the field

[Tender Branson]

Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, Christie and Huckabee top the field, each with 13 percent. Rubio has 12 percent, and Paul and Ryan each have 9 percent. Bush and Palin each have 8 percent, while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is at 7 percent.

Christie, though, led the field last month at 16 percent, followed by Ryan at 12 percent.

Without Christie or Palin in the race, Huckabee and Rubio tie at the top with 15 percent. Supporters of Christie and Palin scatter to several different candidates, Miringoff said.

Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/02/11/2946504/mcclatchy-marist-poll-christie.html#storylink=cpy

[Mr. Morden]

Chris Christie 13%
Mike Huckabee 13%
Marco Rubio 12%
Paul Ryan 9%
Rand Paul 9%
Jeb Bush 8%
Sarah Palin 8%
Scott Walker 7%

Compared to their January poll, Rubio's up 5 points and Walker up 3 points, while Christie and Ryan have both dropped 3 points.

[Mr. Morden]

Full poll:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1016978-mcclatchy-marist-poll-2016-nature-of-the-sample.html#storylink=relast

Christie 13%
Huckabee 13%
Rubio 12%
Paul 9%
Ryan 9%
Bush 8%
Palin 8%
Walker 7%
Cruz 5%
Perry 2%
Santorum 2%
Kasich 1%

If Christie and Palin don't run:

Rubio 15%
Huckabee 15%
Ryan 13%
Bush 12%
Paul 11%
Walker 8%
Cruz 6%
Santorum 4%
Perry 3%
Kasich 1%

[Mr. Morden]

Who leads among....?

Republicans: Huckabee
Independents: Christie
household income less than $50,000: Christie
household income more than $50,000: Christie/Rubio tie
not a college graduate: Huckabee
college graduate: Rubio
under 45 years old: Rubio
over 45 years old: Christie
men: Christie
women: Huckabee
married: Christie
unmarried: Christie

Amusingly, Christie narrowly edges Huckabee among both those under and over $50,000, as well as both those who are married and unmarried....yet he's tied with Huckabee over all.

Not sure how that math works.  I guess it must be a rounding thing, where Christie's support is actually 13.4% or so and Huckabee's is 12.6% or so, which both round to 13%.

[tmthforu94]

I wonder why they included Romney in GE matchups but not in the primary.