We're just about three weeks away from the next Republican presidential debate. It will be held on September 16th at the Reagan Library in California, and it will be hosted by CNN this time. CNN has said they will follow the lead of Fox News and restrict the main debate to 10 participants -- and hold a secondary debate for those who can't make the top 10.
In the last debate, Carly Fiorina was relegated to the secondary debate, but it seems obvious that she will be in the major debate this time. That brings up the question -- who will be booted out to make room for Fiorina. It looks like it could be Chris Christie.
The chart above shows the RealClearPolitics average of the major polls taken in the month of August (Rasmussen Poll, Fox News Poll, CNN/ORC Poll). The top 10 candidates range from Donald Trump at a 22% average down to Rand Paul, John Kasich, and Mike Huckabee, who all have a 4.3% average. Christie is in 11th place with a poll average of 3.3%.
There will be more polls in the next two-three weeks, and things could change -- but if Christie doesn't start doing better, he's the guy that gets demoted.
NOTE -- You may note that Pataki and Gilmore are not on the chart. They couldn't even average the pitiful 0.3% that Graham got.
I says put them all into an arena, dress them up like wrasslers grease them up and last one standing gets it.
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