Sarah Palin, Alaska’s former Governor, FOX News contributor and Tea Party inspiration continues to hold the lead in our Republican presidential straw poll at 32%, while Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul battle it out for second place with 25% and 22% respectively.
The surprise candidate to surge is Dr. Ben Carson; the physician who rose to political prominence by making an impassioned and eloquent plea for liberty and against Obamacare during President Obama’s appearance at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast.
From a start as a write-in candidate, Dr. Carson has steadily risen to now hold 9% of the vote and fourth place – ahead of much better-known rivals, such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, who are now both out of the top ten.
We think Carson’s rise in the CHQ Republican presidential straw poll is further support for our analysis of why voters continue to support Governor Sarah Palin so strongly.
They are searching for candidates with authenticity and a commitment to limited government constitutional conservative principles.
Who else is going to say, “We are so screwed” when Obama announced his new national security team?
And then back it up with facts detailing why Obama’s choices of Susan Rice for national security advisor and Samantha Power for U.N. ambassador were dangerous for America.
Who else among the potential Republican presidential nominees is going to go to the Faith and Freedom Conference to take-on the faithless and freedom eroding Republican establishment by saying, "Don't you dare marginalize us (conservatives)?"
Few of the others would choose to.
In our opinion it is that authenticity that keeps Governor Palin in the lead.
This certainly leaves out big government establishment Republicans like Jeb Bush, and of course Marco Rubio’s abandonment of limited government constitutional conservative principles to become the face of the hated “Gang of Eight” Obama – Rubio amnesty for illegal aliens bill has made him anathema to most limited government constitutional conservatives.
In our view, the voter’s search for authenticity will be the determining factor in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. That search is not over and has left plenty of room for non-traditional “boat-rockers,” like Dr. Ben Carson, to grow and for other “boat-rockers” on the national stage, such as Senators Paul and Cruz, to challenge Palin for the lead.
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