I object.
South Carolina's "favorite son" didn't fare so well in the latest
PPP poll, with nearly eight in 10 voters saying that Lindsey Graham should exit the race altogether.
78% of GOP primary voters think Graham should end his Presidential bid, compared to only 15% who think he should continue on with it.
That is some ice cold water, right there.
It's no surprise that Donald Trump is dominating the field at 37 percent, with Ben Carson trailing at 21 percent, and no one else breaking double digits. Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz tie at 6 percent; Carly Fiorina, John Kasich, and Marco Rubio register 4 percent each. As with other polls, Trump also leads every demographic:
He's at 47% with moderates, 40% with men, 39% with Evangelicals, 36% with seniors, 36% with younger voters, 34% with women, and 32% with 'very conservative' voters. He's also becoming more broadly acceptable to Republican voters. 64% have a favorable opinion of him to only 28% with an unfavorable one, the best favorability we've found for him in any state yet.
Jeb!'s net favorability, btw, has dropped 44 points since February, going from +25 to -19.
On the Democratic side, Clinton is still the favorite of 54 percent of voters, with Joe Biden getting 24 percent and Bernie Sanders coming in at 9 percent.
This is the worst performance we've found for Sanders anywhere in quite a long time, but it speaks to his continued difficulty with African American voters. He gets only 3% with them- well behind Clinton's 59% and Biden's 27%- and in a state where a majority of Democratic voters are black that makes it hard for him to do very well.
1:39 PM PT: UPDATE: It gets worse—Graham shut out of the SC debate after failing to reach "the 1 percent threshold" in August to secure inclusion.