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legal in utah. you can have that family, that s what this law was designed to get at, and no one can commit bigamy. i will note, by the way, that most bigamy prosecutions involve people who hold themselves out as traditional marriages. polygamists generally only have one license and the rest are called spiritual unions. so this is a victory i think more for privacy than polygamy. jonathan turley, thanks so much for that. thank you, joe. coming up next, she s still deciding whether to run so hillary clinton might want to check out our new polls. who s the only republican that beats her in a head-to-head matchup? plus, he has no shot of playing in the super bowl but is still hoping to make some money off of the game. one nfl player is renting his apartment to fans. how much is it going to cost you to live like a new york giant for a week? once upon a time, an insurance clerk stumbled upon a cottage.
i m joe johns filling in for jake tapper. in our politics lead, cnn is released brand new polls this hour measuring the voters choices for president in 2016. john king is here to break it down for us. what do the polls tell us about our potential presidential front-runners? well, we should make clear from the get-go that late 2013 polling is a far from reliable indicator of what the american people will be looking for when they next pick a president in 2016. but these early numbers fun for holiday political conversations and could have some impact on how the potential candidates look at the weeks and months ahead. here s the test. early democratic favorite hillary clinton versus nine republican 2016 prospects, and with just one exception, secretary clinton comes out on top. in most cases by a landslide. she beats former florida governor jeb bush by 21. former arkansas governor mike huckabee by 15 points. 18 points is the clinton advantage over texas senator and tea party favorite te
hillary clinton and mccain. to me, what s most problematic is for republicans, i don t care who the nominee is, and it will be a he, unfortunately, if he can t compete with minority voters, you know, they are not going to get a wide electorate. look what happened in virginia last time around. that electorate is not getting whiter. we lost white women by 16 points last time around on the way to winning every state office in virginia. before we go off on the republicans, got to ask you, plan b. if hillary clinton doesn t run, who do you see? if hillary clinton doesn t run, i think we have a strong finish. there has been talk about right here in maryland, the governor of maryland joe, you know what, joe biden, i will say this, joe biden won over a lot of democrats in the debate where he did to congressman ryan what many were hoping that the president was going to do to mitt romney. so don t underestimate joe biden in the democratic primary if