New Hampshire voters have yet to tune in to 2016. Investigative journalists suspect the government is spying on them. And most people don’t really care about politicians’ high school drug use. This is HuffPollster for Friday, February 6, 2015.
NEW 2016 NEW HAMPSHIRE POLL FROM WMUR/UNH – James Pindell: “The first major poll of New Hampshire Republican voters following former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s decision not to run for president in 2016 shows former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker leading others interested in running. Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has a sizable lead among Democrats….Had Romney decided to run a third time for president, polls suggested he was a lock to win the Granite State. With Romney out, the WMUR Granite State Poll by the University of New Hampshire shows Bush with 17 percent support, Walker with 12 percent, and Chris Christie, Rand Paul, and Mike Huckabee at 9 percent. On the Democratic side Clinton has a dominant 58 percent support, well ahead of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren at 14 percent. Other potential candidates, including Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and former Virginia senator Jim Webb, were all in single digits. [Boston Globe]
NH voters not yet engaged – Andrew Smith and Zachary Azem: “The 2016 primary is the 100th anniversary of this institution, but voters are not yet that interested. And certainly have not decided who they will vote for…New Hampshire primary voters usually decide who they will vote for in the last weeks, or days of the campaign and it is no surprise that very few likely Republican primary voters currently have made up their minds about who they will support in 2016. Currently, only 6% of likely Republican Primary voters say they have definitely decided who they will support, 9% are leaning toward a candidate, and 85% are still trying to decide.” New Hampshire voters are only marginally more engaged on the Democratic side. “Currently, only 7% of likely Democratic primary voters say they have definitely decided who they will support, 16% are leaning toward a candidate, but the great majority of voters (76%) are still trying to decide who to support.” [UNH reports on samples of Republicans and Democrats ]
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-Elizabeth Wilner describes the move towards “programmatic” advertising by campaigns. [Cook Political]
-DJ Patil joins the White House as data scientist-in-residence. [Gigaom]
-58 percent of Americans are sure that time travel is never going to happen. [YouGov]
