Employees working fewer hours due to Obamacare: survey

The Washington Examiner reports:

Look at the last election cycle. The top three GOP candidates in the RealClearPolitics average of polls in late March 2011 — Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul — were the top three men in the poll average at the beginning of 2012, when caucus and primary voting got under way. And they were the last three men standing, sort of, in the same order, in the last RCP average in April 2012. Of course there were a huge number of twists and turns along the way. But in retrospect, the polls in 2011 told us something. The winner came from the top three a year earlier.

Today, the RCP average shows an exact tie at the top of the GOP race: Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, both with 16.6 percent, with Ben Carson following at 10.6 percent.

The early pulse.