Debate stage: Voters like Bush, Rubio. A lot don’t like Trump
Republican candidates
Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, 51 percent favorable, 30 percent unfavorable.
Marco Rubio, senator from Florida, 49-15.
Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, 45-30.
Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, 43-16.
Donald Trump, real estate investor, 42-49.
Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon, 40-10.
Rick Perry, former governor of Texas, 38-26.
Rand Paul, senator from Kentucky, 38-37.
Ted Cruz, senator from Texas, 37-24.
Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania, 31-27.
Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, 31-44.
Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana, 29-17.
Carly Fiorina, former business executive, 26-12.
John Kasich, governor of Ohio, 23-14.
Lindsey Graham, senator from South Carolina, 15-40.
Jim Gilmore, former governor of Virginia, 2-15.
Former New York Gov. George Pataki was not included in the poll. The results are statistically significant within plus or minus 5.3 percentage points.
Democratic candidates
Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state, 72 percent favorable, 22 percent unfavorable.
Bernie Sanders, senator from Vermont, 34-16.
Jim Webb, former senator from Virginia, 12-14.
Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, 10-13.
Lincoln Chafee, former governor of Rhode Island, 8-14.
The results are statistically significant within plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.
WASHINGTON — As candidates jostle to make the cut for the first Republican presidential debate this week, the McClatchy-Marist Poll has temporarily suspended polling on primary voter choices out of concern that public polls are being misused to decide who will be in and who will be excluded.
The Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducts the national survey, said the debate criteria assume too much precision in polls in drawing a line between candidates just a small fraction apart, presume that the national polls being averaged are comparable, and turn the media sponsoring most of the polls from analysts to participants.
“It’s a problem when it’s shaping who gets to sit at the table,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute.