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Four months of Power Rankings have shown a Republicans presidential margin to be remarkably stable.

When we launched this underline Sept. 1 — asking 30 or so domestic experts who is a strongest claimant in a GOP margin any week — the tip 5 were Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz.

As a year comes to a close, in a 18th week of a survey, a tip 5 are Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie and Jeb Bush.

Trump stays during a tip of a list, where he has been all though 5 weeks of a survey. Carson took a tip mark in late Octoberheld initial place for dual weeks

Perhaps many conspicuous is a series of big-name possibilities who have never burst a tip of a survey. Bush, Rand Paul and Scott Walker all launched their campaigns with good pushing and high expectations, though Walker fast forsaken out and Bush and Paul have struggled to beget any momentum. Heading into January, Paul might even be relegated to a “happy hour” theatre a subsequent time a Republicans accumulate for a debate.

No warn that there was small transformation in a margin over a Christmas break, though that will change Jan. 2 as a possibilities start their scurry to a Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses.

“It’s about to get real,” pronounced domestic researcher Nathan Gonzales. “For months we’ve said, ‘It’s a prolonged approach to February,’ though now it is only a few weeks away. No one likely this is where we would be with about a month to go, and I’m not certain we trust anyone who claims to know definitively where this competition is headed.”

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Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY

WEEK 18 RANKINGS

1. Donald Trump (Last Week: 1)

2. Ted Cruz (2)

3. Marco Rubio (3)

4. Chris Christie (4)

5. Jeb Bush (6)

6. Ben Carson (5)

7. John Kasich (8)

8. Carly Fiorina (7)

9. Rand Paul (9)

10. Mike Huckabee (10)

11. Rick Santorum (11)

12. George Pataki (12)

13. Jim Gilmore (13)

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Participants in USA TODAY’s GOP Power Rankings:
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Henry Barbour
Paul Brathwaite, 
Dianne Bystrom
Herman Cain
Maria Cardona
Frank Donatelli
Sara Fagen
Peter Fenn
Denise Feriozzi
Karen Floyd
Aaron Ghitelman
Andra Gillespie
Nathan L. Gonzales
Lilly J. Goren
Doug Gross
O. Kay Henderson
Ken Khachigian
Carl Leubsdorf
Matt Mackowiak
Phil Musser
Margie Omero
Jon Ralston
Craig Robinson
Alan Rosenblatt
Dante Scala
Adam Sharp
Alex Smith
Todd Spangler
Kathy Sullivan

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