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Hillary Clinton now bests GOP Gov. Chris Christie by 13 points in a new Quinnipiac survey in a reverse of December polling. But many polls this early in the game are, well, poli-tainment.

Its another week, another sparkly poll for Hillary Rodham Clinton! In the latest example of her statistical dominance of the 2016 presidential pre-game, a Quinnipiac survey released Thursday finds former Secretary of State Clinton well ahead of any number of possible GOP rivals among voters in Iowa.

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Peter Grier is The Christian Science Monitor's Washington editor. In this capacity, he helps direct coverage for the paper on most news events in the nation's capital.

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In a hypothetical Hawkeye State matchup between Clinton and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Clinton leads by 10 percentage points, according to Quinnipiac. Shes 16 points ahead of Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Ex-Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida? Shes beating him by 14 points.

But the headline here is that Quinnipiac finds Clinton in front of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey by 13 points. Thats a reversal of the same polling organizations December results, in which Governor Christie led Clinton by 48 percent to 45 percent.

The flip seems driven by non-Republicans who previously liked Christie changing their mind due to the publicity surrounding the Bridge-gate scandal, in which the Christie administration is accused of creating traffic jams on the George Washington Bridge as political payback against the Democratic mayor of nearby Fort Lee, N.J.

Quinnipiac shows that Clinton now leads among self-proclaimed independent voters in Iowa by 46 percent to 32 percent. Back in December, independents broke for Christie by 44 to 35 percent.

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