The Carly Fiorina boomlet is already over
Carly Fiorina's moment in the spotlight seems to have already passed. After surging to second place in the polls following strong performances in both Republican presidential debates, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO has dropped way down in the rankings — she's now in a three-way tie for seventh place. The new national CNN/ORC poll out Tuesday shows that, in the last month, Fiorina's support has plummeted by 11 percentage points, dropping from 15 percent to 4 percent.
This isn't the first poll to show Fiorina slipping. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll out Monday showed Fiorina in sixth place with 7 percent. In September, she was tied for third with 11 percent.
The CNN/ORC poll's margin of error is ± 4.5 percentage points, and the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll's is ± 4.9 percent.
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