I have been bringing you the results of surveys of Republicans in various states as to their preference for president in 2016. Now results have been reported from two new states -- North Carolina and Alaska. As you can see from the charts above, these two states reflect the same thing that has been reported from other states -- that there is still no favorite among Republicans for their nomination in 2016. No Republican hopeful in either state is able to record even 20% support.
I did find it interesting that if the election was held right now, Hillary Clinton would get North Carolina's 15 electoral votes, while the Republican candidate would wind up with Alaska's 3 electoral votes (unless it was Palin, who would lose to Clinton). Here's how Hillary would fare against the top GOP hopefuls in each state:
NORTH CAROLINA
Clinton...............45%
Bush...............42%
Clinton...............44%
Christie...............40%
Clinton...............47%
Huckabee...............43%
Clinton...............45%
Paul...............44%
ALASKA
Clinton...............41%
Bush...............47%
Clinton...............41%
Christie...............44%
Clinton...............42%
Huckabee...............43%
Clinton...............44%
Palin...............41%
Clinton...............40%
Paul...............46%
The Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina questioned 877 registered voters between May 9th and 11th, with a 3.3 point margin of error (394 GOP primary voters, with a 4.9 point margin of error).
The Public Policy Polling survey in Alaska questioned 582 registered voters between May 8th and 11th, with a margin of error of 4.1 points (313 GOP primary voters, with a margin of error of 5.5 points).
