We went into the commercial break on marijuana, which isn’t a slam-dunk issue for the Republican candidates. Yes, the majority of Republicans (39 percent) were against legalizing it in an April 2015 Pew Research survey, but a sizable minority (39 percent) said it should be legal. It is an issue on which the moderate candidate could appeal to the base, though. Only 32 percent of conservative Republicans wanted to legalize it, while 65 percent didn’t.
