Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

The Republican Field Is Guesswork

Republicans are jockeying for position in 2016. Where they are now is not where they will end up.

February 6, 2014 at 10:22 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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So how is the Republican presidential nomination contest going?

Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball takes a look today, putting Scott Walker, Rand Paul, and Chris Christie in a "top tier." See, too, The Fix's rankings last month in the Washington Post, which also had Christie, Paul, and Walker as their top three, albeit in reverse order.