Yahoo News Has The Story:

Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday to jump into “fiscal cliff” talks in hopes of breaking an impasse that threatens Americans with sharply higher income taxes come January 1.

In a brief speech on the Senate floor, McConnell complained that Democrats had not yet placed a counter-offer to a new Republican proposal, delivered at 7 pm on Saturday, “despite the obvious time crunch.”

“I’m concerned about the lack of urgency here,” the Kentucky lawmaker said. “I think we all know we’re running out of time.”

620 adults were interviewed. 34% described themselves as Democrats, 41% described themselves as Independents, and 25% described themselves as Republicans. The sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points or less. The poll was conducted December 17-18, 2012.

Breitbart.com Has The Story:

Normally, when a legislative leader cannot convince his party rank-and-file to support his proposals, that leader resigns with honor or is ousted in disgrace. Speaker of the House John Boehner may have crossed that threshold with the failure of his "Plan B" last week. But it is highly unlikely that he will go, partly because there is no leading candidate to replace him, and also because it is clear that many of his failures are not his fault.

Harper Polling: Marco Rubio- 34% Chris Christie-18% Condi Rice-14% Rand Paul-8% Allen West-5% Scott Brown-3% Undecided-18%

Sample Size: 2,746
Margin of Error: +/-1.87%
Poll Conducted: December 19, 2012

Break Down of Poll Numbers-Harper Polling:

Rubio is strongest in the South and West.  There’s some logic in that.  He’s a son of the South, for those who count Florida as the South.  The Hispanic appeal may run a bit stronger out West.  In the Northeast, he and Christie run virtually tied at 29-27%.  The Midwest may ultimately be the harder nut to crack for Rubio.   His working class background may be his strongest connection to the industrial Midwest.

The Chris Christie primary voter appears to lean more toward the middle.  Along with Condi Rice, his voters are more likely to support exceptions to the no-new-taxes pledge and they believe that compromise is better for the country.  They are less likely to watch Fox News and support TEA party goals.

Speaking of the TEA party.  It is the foundation of Rubio’s support.  Approaching half of all TEA supporters (43%) are voting for him.  If I’m one of the other guys, it can’t stay that way.  Somebody has to eat away at that base for Rubio.

Rice and Scott Brown are the only candidates who do better among women than men.  We threw Brown in the mix to see if his historic 2011 special election victory had any bite with GOP primary voters.