First Official GOP President Announcement

Polls this far out mean nothing, their value comes in shaping and funneling public opinion rather than reflecting it.

We can only hope so.

I know right, Rubio needs to be in 3rd place behind Cruz and Paul

There is STILL lots of room in the clown car.

Now where did I leave that popcorn? .....

Quinnipiac surveyed three crucial swing states — Colorado, Iowa, and Virginia — and found Clinton's lead slipping against her possible Republican rivals. Peter Brown, assistant director of the polling outfit, said the shift is because voters increasingly see Clinton as a dishonest candidate.

"Clinton's lead is wilting against leading Republican presidential candidates," Quinnipiac said in its write-up of the survey. "In head-to-head matchups, every Republican candidate effectively ties her in Colorado and almost all Republicans effectively tie her in Iowa."

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), who launched his campaign for president this week, performed particularly well against Clinton in the poll. In Colorado, Paul led Clinton 44% to 41%, and in Iowa, he narrowly led her 43% to 42%.

However, Brown said Clinton should be concerned that all of her potential Republican foes appear to be gaining traction against her.

"These numbers are a boost for US Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky as he formally launches his campaign," he said in a statement. "Ominous for Hillary Clinton is the broad scope of the movement today compared to her showing in Quinnipiac University's mid-February survey. It isn't just one or two Republicans who are stepping up; it's virtually the entire GOP field that is running better against her."

Brown attributed Clinton's drop in the polls to the recent controversy over her email use as secretary of state. At the start of last month, The New York Times reported Clinton exclusively used her personal email for official government business, which allegedly broke federal guidelines and could have placed sensitive communications at risk. Facing a barrage of criticism, Clinton eventually said she turned over about 30,o00 work-related emails to the State Department. However, she raised eyebrows by revealing she deleted the other 30,000 "personal" messages on her server.

"It is difficult to see Secretary Clinton's slippage as anything other than a further toll on her image from the furor over her email," Brown said.

"In all three of these states, more, and in Colorado many more, registered voters say she is not honest and trustworthy," Brown added. "Voters do think she is a strong leader — a key metric — but unless she can change the honesty perception, running as a competent but dishonest candidate has serious potential problems."

In his own analysis of the poll, Veteran Politico reporter Mike Allen agreed that the coverage of Clinton's email controversy has taken a toll on her likely presidential campaign. Accordingly, he said it is likely Republicans will increasingly attack Clinton for being a "liar."

"So now we know why, as Rand Paul revealed to Politico in a post-announcement interview, he plans to make a major push on Clinton character, focusing on emails and Clinton Foundation finances," Allen wrote in his Thursday morning newsletter. "We can see from this poll that the coverage is killing Clinton, putting her even with clowns like Huckabee in swing states (tied 41-41 in Colo.) because so many people consider her a liar. GOP focus groups show this vulnerability. So even more money and more groups will focus on her scandals."

However, the Quinnipiac poll also had some good news for Clinton: She's holding onto her lead in Virginia. The state used to be solidly Republican but voted twice for President Barack Obama. In the survey, Clinton led Paul 47% to 43% in the state and beat other Republicans by even wider margins.

"Of the three states tested, Virginia seems to be the friendliest toward Hillary Clinton, perhaps a continuing reflection of the Old Dominion's leftward drift over the past decade," Brown said. "Only yesterday, it seemed, it was deeply red."

Democrat Hillary Clinton has slipped against leading 2016 Republican candidates in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, according to a poll released on Thursday that cited damage from the furor over the former secretary of state's emails.

The Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll also showed Clinton in a close race with U.S. Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who declared his candidacy on Tuesday.

Clinton, who is expected to announce her White House bid this month, is tied with all the Republican candidates in Colorado and almost all of them in the early voting state of Iowa, the poll said.

"It isn't just one or two Republicans who are stepping up; it's virtually the entire GOP field that is running better against her" since the last swing state survey on Feb. 18, pollster Peter Brown said in a statement.

He attributed the drop to the controversy that erupted in March over Clinton's use of personal email for work when she was America's top diplomat. Republicans have raised the prospect of congressional hearings on the issue.

Paul led Clinton by 44 percent to 41 percent in Colorado and 43 percent to 42 percent in Iowa, the Quinnipiac poll showed. In Virginia, Clinton led 47 percent to 43 percent.

"These numbers are a boost for U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky as he formally launches his campaign," Brown said.

The poll cited a bright spot for Clinton in Virginia, where she led all Republicans, including former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, whom she led with 47 percent to 40 percent, compared to a 42-42 percent tie in February.

The telephone poll of 2,803 likely voters was conducted from March 29 through April 7 and had an error margin of 3.2 percentage points in Iowa and Virginia and 3.3 points in Colorado.

Polls this far out mean nothing, their value comes in shaping and funneling public opinion rather than reflecting it.

I'm not entirely sure she'll make it to the nomination.

But now Hillary should be afraid because of new polls still this far out?

She could also use Obama's strategy, be quiet and let republicans talk.

the "first womyn president evah" candidacy

This is the kinda ***that only really does a disservice to your own party.

Wait, you mean to tell us that having the "first <insert minority status> president" isn't the main strategy of the liberal/democrat party?

Because that is how they ran Obama....

Wait, you mean to tell us that having the "first <insert minority status> president" isn't the main strategy of the liberal/democrat party?

Because that is how they ran Obama....

No I mean putting it up like "First Womyn Prezident evah" instead of just calling it out like we believe they're running on her being a woman instead of any actual credibility.

Because that is how they ran Obama....

Because they know there's enough stupid people out there who will vote for her based by her gender, not by what she brings to the country.

But he did do that.

She has no credibility, especially if you going to go off her record as a NY Senator and SOS. So, why else are they running her for president? Because they know there's enough stupid people out there who will vote for her based by her gender, not by what she brings to the country.

08? they ran obama like a steam roller right over top of grandma clinton and then blew the air horn and kept going.

It isn't an age issue it's a she doesn't know what the *** she is doing issue !

I don't see leadership coming from her...