New poll: Uhuru leading Raila by huge margin

Uhuru popularity rating has soared to a all time high of 48% against NASA principal Raila odinga 28%.
Uhuru Kenyatta is leading Raila by a 20% gap according to the latest poll by IPSOS synovate.
Raila was recently named NASA flag bearer.

President Uhuru Kenyatta is the most popular candidate if elections were held today, a new poll has shown.
With a preference of 47 per cent from all Kenyans across 42 counties, President Kenyatta would still win the elections if they were held today, according to Ipsos Synovate.
This figure even doubles when it narrows down to political alignments as 87 per cent of Jubilee backers confessed they would vote in the incumbent leader.
This is compared to the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) led by co-principal Raila Odinga who has the support of 73 per cent from the National Super Alliance (NASA) followers.
"In partisan terms, while nearly nine-out-of-ten Jubilee supporters back Uhuru (87 per cent), somewhat fewer CORD/NASA supporters back Raila (73 per cent), though given that whereas the former is certainly the Jubilee candidate, the Opposition's candidate remains unknown," reads the survey in part.
While only 13 per cent of CORD supporters will vote for co-principal Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi believed to be the brains behind the new vehicle dubbed NASA garnered support from only three per cent of Opposition backers.
Though Deputy President William Ruto has declared he will not be vying this year, if he did, he is only assured of two per cent support from Jubilee.
The rest of the candidates had less than one per cent
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