No surprise. Look at Rubio's poll numbers -- he's down to 9%. He should realize, when he loses FL it's over. Perhaps most importantly, the polls reflects that Cruz does the best over Clinton and what is most concerning is Trump loses over Sanders!
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton hold slim leads in Missouri pollA new poll suggests Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are the front-runners ahead of Missouri's primary election March 15, although both candidates' leads fall within the margin of error.
The poll, sponsored by ten Missouri newspapers in partnership with the Docking Institute of Public Affairs, was released today. It is the first statewide poll of Missouri presidential candidate preferences since August, when Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal and Lincoln Chafee were still in the race.
The poll, conducted March 3-10, found voters in the state generally favored Republicans, at least for the purpose of primary voting: 51 percent of respondents planned to pick up a Republican ballot, 36 percent planned to pull a Democratic ballot and 14 percent were undecided.
Of those who planned to choose between Democrats, 47 percent planned to vote for Clinton, 40 percent favored Bernie Sanders and 13 percent were undecided. The margin of error was +/- 8 percentage points.
On the Republican side, Trump led with 36 percent support, followed closely by Ted Cruz at 29 percent. Marco Rubio earned the likely votes of 9 percent of respondents, John Kasich had 8 percent and Ben Carson (who has since withdrawn from the race) garnered 1 percent. One percent favored some other candidate and 17 percent were undecided. The margin of error was +/- 7 percentage points.
In hypothetical match-ups between potential nominees, respondents favored Republicansin every pairing but one (and with as much as 20 percent of the polling sample described as undecided):
Cruz vs. Clinton: Cruz favored, 51 percent to 34 percent
Cruz vs. Sanders: Cruz favored, 45 percent to 36 percent
Rubio vs. Clinton: Rubio favored, 49 percent to 31 percent
Rubio vs. Sanders: Rubio favored, 43 percent to 37 percent
Trump vs. Clinton: Trump favored, 43 percent to 38 percent
Trump vs. Sanders: Sanders favored, 43 percent to 40 percent
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/11/poll-trump-clinton-hold-edge-missouri/81576504/
