This Year's CPAC Poll

DEVELOPING: Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul won the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll for potential White House candidates for the third consecutive year.
He finished with 26 percent of the vote, ahead of Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker, who finished with 21 percent of the vote.

Former Florida GOP Gov. Jeb Bush, a popular establishment candidate who has struggled to reconnect with conservatives, finished in fifth place, with 8 percent of the vote.

The poll was conducted over the conference’s three days of seminars and speeches by most the leading potential Republican candidates.


New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, consider a top-flight candidate since the 2012 presidential elections, finished last with 2.8 percent of the vote.


His would-be candidacy has since been plagues by the political scandal known as BridgeGate, an up-and-down state economy and his reputation of being a hot head.


Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz finished in third place with 11.5 percent of the vote, followed by retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson in fourth with 11 percent of the vote.