Lindsey Grahamnesty!

John McCain inconsolable.

Via Rasmussen:

Longtime Senator Lindsey Graham has entered the sea of candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination, but GOP voters rate the South Carolinian the longest of the long-shots in the race so far.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds just 17% of Likely Republican Voters believe Graham is likely to end up being the Republican presidential nominee in 2016, with only three percent (3%) who say it is Very Likely. Sixty-two percent (62%) consider a Graham nomination unlikely, including 30% who also say it’s Not At All Likely. Twenty percent (20%) are not sure.

Perhaps most galling to Graham is that his nemesis, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, with whom he frequently clashes in Washington, is seen by nearly three times as many Republicans (47%) as likely to win the nomination.

He also runs well behind former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (48%), Florida Senator Marco Rubio  (47%), Texas Senator Ted Cruz  (44%) and retired-neurosurgeon-turned-conservative-activist Ben Carson (40%) in terms of his likelihood to win the nomination.

Voters even give former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum (25%), ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (22%) and former New York Governor George Pataki (21%) a better chance of capturing the GOP nomination.