The media manipulating the polls. If it wasn’t for Rove money, Lindsey would have lost the primary.
Via The State
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham leads 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls among potential GOP voters in his home state, according to a NBC News/Marist poll released Sunday.
But the Seneca Republican is struggling to find the same backing in other early primary states. And nearly six out of 10 S.C. registered voters said Graham ought to sit out the 2016 presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dominated Vice President Joe Biden, who is visiting Columbia and Charleston this week, by a large margin among S.C. Democratic voters, the poll found.
Graham, who has said he will decide by May on a presidential bid, received 17 percent of support. He’s just ahead of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (15 percent) and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (12 percent).[…]
Republican voters in all three early primary states held favorable views on some key issues for Graham — including sending more U.S. troops to Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS, ending Common Core education standards and repealing the federal health care insurance law.
One trouble spot for Graham might be immigration reform. Most GOP voters said they would not accept a candidate who supports a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
On the Democratic side, Clinton led Biden by 65 percent to 20 percent in South Carolina. Clinton’s leads over Biden were wider in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Head to head in South Carolina, Bush had a slight lead on Clinton among registered voters, but the former New York senator was in a dead heat with Walker.