October 4, 2014 11:53 AM
The Races: President
The list of potential candidates for President in 2016 has stabilized, at least for the moment. Hillary Clinton continues to clear the Democratic field. On the Republican side there are six candidates drawing between 11.5% and 8.8%.In “contests” with seven potential Republican nominees, Clinton averages 49.6%, while the Republicans average 39.7%. Clinton’s spread over the putative Republican nominees ranges from 13.8% over Cruz to 6.7% over Ryan.
The numbers below represent the Real Clear Politics average of public surveys in the respective Party “nomination contests.” In the case of the Democrats from May 29th –July 22nd, and in the case of the Republicans from June 24th –August 4th.
| Democrats | Republicans |
| Clinton 64.5% | Christie 11.5% |
| Biden 10.3 | Bush 10.8 |
| Warren 9.3 | Ryan 10 |
| Cuomo 3.8 | Cruz 8.8 |
| O’Malley 1.5 | Perry 8.3 |
| Schweitzer 1.0 | Rubio 7.5 |
| Walker 5.3 | |
| Santorum 2.8 | |
| Jindal 2.3 |
This is the longer list of potential contenders.
| Republicans | Democrats |
| Jeb Bush | Joe Biden |
| Chris Christie | Hillary Clinton |
| Bobby Jindal | Andrew Cuomo |
| Rand Paul | Kristin Gillibrand |
| Marco Rubio | Amy Klobuchar |
| Paul Ryan | Martin O’Malley |
| Mike Pence | Elizabeth Warren |
| John Kasich | Howard Dean |
| Scott Walker | Duval Patrick |
| Ted Cruz | Brian Schweitzer |
| Rick Santorum | Mark Warner |
| Rick Perry | Jay Nixon |
| Michelle Bachman | Jim Webb |
| Ben Carson | Bernie Sanders |
| Mike Huckabee | Joe Manchin |
| John Huntsman | |
| Joe Scarborough | |
| Donald Trump | |
| Mitt Romney |
