Despite standard disclaimers that polls taken this far out are completely meaningless, they nonetheless provide grist for the mill. I’m quite surprised, then, that there have been no significant surveys of the Republican field taken since the announcement that frontrunners Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump* and Establishment darling Mitch Daniels have dropped out** of the race. The last survey in the RealClearPolitics aggregate is a PPP survey taken May 5-8 and all the others included were taken in April.
C’mon, pollsters! We want to what the impact of the shake-up has been.
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*Trump is now hinting that he may run after all–perhaps as an independent. But methinks he’s toast.
**Technically, none of them were actually running. But the long feeling out process is very much a part of the campaign.
