GIRL ON FIRE: Carly Fiorina Climbs Into Top 7

As the top performer in the Happy Hour debates, Carly Fiorina continues to climb in the polls. Using straight talk and actually addressing issues that the voters care about are fueling this climb.

Can she overcome what appears to be an attempt to exclude her from the prime time?

Read below for an opinion and make your judgement.

As Reported By Breitbart:

Since her stand out debate performance at the first GOP presidential primary debate, Carly Fiorina has reached the top ten in three national polls and her name identification and favorability has increased by double digits.

But what is more impressive is that Fiorina is in the top seven out of the 17 GOP presidential candidates across 12 different state polls.

Since the first debate, state polling suggests that Fiorina has become a standout favorite. Here’s where she ranks in the latest state-by-state polls.

New Hampshire: 3^rd

South Carolina: 4^th

Wisconsin: 5^th

Florida: 5^th

Ohio: 6^th

Pennsylvania: 4^th

Nevada: 2^nd

North Carolina: 6^th

Arizona: 3^rd

Iowa: 5^th

Michigan: 2^nd

Missouri: 7^th

Fiorina’s campaign, although proud of the new poll results and her debate performance, says the political establishment as well as the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) debate rules for the upcoming CNN debate in mid-September could keep Fiorina off of the main debate state yet again.

CNN is averaging national polls from as far back as July 16th to decide which candidates make the top 10. Those top 10 will then be on the main debate stage.

“Carly would easily make this debate if there were a consistent number of polls from one week to the next, but that’s not the case. In the three weeks before the first debate, CNN will be counting nine polls. In the three weeks since the debate, they will only be counting two. By simply averaging these polls together, CNN will be weighting the three weeks of polling before the debate more than three times as heavily as the three weeks of polling after Carly won the first debate,” her campaign spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores explained in an email Wednesday.