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Donald Trump Suffers Five Stages Of Grief After His Iowa Polls Slide
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 10/28/2015 | John Merline

Posted on 10/28/2015 2:58:26 PM PDT by IBD editorial writer

After nearly half a dozen Iowa polls have shown Trump in second place well behind Dr. Ben Carson, we're getting to see just how he handles pressure.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


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1 posted on 10/28/2015 2:58:26 PM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer
Too funny. In my ongoing campaign biography of Trump that I'm writing, I used the stages of grief to describe the drive-by media. Course, this guy must not have seen this poll: http://bit.ly/1LCKp0N

It's not IA, but it's significant.

2 posted on 10/28/2015 2:59:50 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: IBD editorial writer

Don’t tell me you guys at IBD are drinking the establishment koolaid too.


3 posted on 10/28/2015 3:01:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: IBD editorial writer

A bit premature.

If it weren’t for the evangelicals who don’t know Carson belongs to a cult and the corn crack sniffers, Carson wouldn’t even be registering in Iowa.


4 posted on 10/28/2015 3:01:19 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: LS

Yeah. You’re a real card. Problem is, you cannot see the forest for the trees.


5 posted on 10/28/2015 3:01:32 PM PDT by AdaGray
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To: conservativejoy

that is christian sour grapes bs


6 posted on 10/28/2015 3:02:19 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (this time really is different)
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To: IBD editorial writer

I expect Carson to win the Iowa caucus. He’s their kind of guy. Openly Christian, mild mannered and mostly moderate.

But the Iowa caucus means very little. Ronald Reagan in 1980 didn’t bother to campaign in Iowa because he knew they liked squishy moderates like Daddy Bush.

At least half the time the winner fizzles out afterwards.


7 posted on 10/28/2015 3:03:02 PM PDT by Angels27
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To: IBD editorial writer; Jim Robinson; humblegunner

site pimps should be in chat forum


8 posted on 10/28/2015 3:06:17 PM PDT by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Angels27

A good history lesson for these Trump-haters to remember, after GHWB won those Iowa caucuses (and his margin of victory wasn’t all that great), Reagan fired his moron of a campaign manager John Sears, brought in William Casey (who would later become his CIA Director) and from there to the convention, Reagan kicked that elitist RINO’s rump day in and day out.

Trump I predict, will do likewise with Dr. Squish-on-the-2nd-Amendment.


9 posted on 10/28/2015 3:07:17 PM PDT by mkjessup (Bushes? Clintons? They're all one big "UNI-FAMILY", "WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?")
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To: Thibodeaux

The Four Major Cults: Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism - By: Anthony A. Hoekema

One of many books written on the subject. This one from christianbooks.com. Amazon also has a nice selection.

The Four Major Cults: Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism

By: Anthony A. Hoekema

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. / 1963 / Paperback

I also recommend “Kingdom of the Cults”.


10 posted on 10/28/2015 3:07:56 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: xzins
site pimps should be in chat forum

*** BUMP ***

And this ain't the first time either.
11 posted on 10/28/2015 3:08:03 PM PDT by mkjessup (Bushes? Clintons? They're all one big "UNI-FAMILY", "WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?")
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To: IBD editorial writer

“The IBD/TIPP poll was the first national poll to show Carson taking the lead from Trump. Since then, the New York Times/CBS News and Reuters polls have come up with similar
results.”

So, now there are three national polls showing Carson is ahead. This article is a good one showing Trump’s reactions as he is faced with these results, including the Iowa poll showing Carson ahead.

We will see how he handles himself from this point forward and including tonight, whether poll numbers will be brought up tonight.


12 posted on 10/28/2015 3:08:48 PM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ (Prepping can save you life today.))
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Here is my latest average of the four latest major GOP National Polls. Despite what the MSM tries to emphasize with a single poll, this average tells the tale.

...and here's the trend line of the averages of each weeks major polls (and they differ from week to week in terms of who takes them) since the first of septmeber.

Speaks for itself:


13 posted on 10/28/2015 3:08:55 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Yea, like Iowa matters to anyone.


14 posted on 10/28/2015 3:10:19 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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I just hope Trump will focus on what HE plans to do while pointing out the sneakiness of the House GOP’s members who voted to pass another Obama budget and break more promises they made to their supporters.

I’d love for him to say Boehner gave us all the finger on his way out. If he hurls insults to Carson or Cruz, it will only hurt him, IMO.


15 posted on 10/28/2015 3:10:32 PM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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I believe what has happened is Bush’s supporters dropped him, and went to Carson.

At least they’re saying that.

It allows them to feel like they’re impacting the system. Trump needs to stay on his game, but Carson’s supporters are newer than Trumps (at least many of them) and more subject to changing their minds.

Granted if they stay his supporters long-term his support solidifies, but right now it seems Carson got a bunch of people who had been Bush supporters.

We shall see. :D


16 posted on 10/28/2015 3:12:22 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Angels27

Considering Santorum won the 2012 Iowa Caucus I’m of the same opinion that Iowa means little.


17 posted on 10/28/2015 3:13:35 PM PDT by A message
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To: IBD editorial writer

By ‘grieving,’ do you mean, ‘celebrating his domination of the race’?

@realDonaldTrump
I’m sure the media will not report the highly respected new national poll that just came out via The Economist. 32%! https://today.yougov.com/news/2015/10/28/trump-leads-nationally-ahead-gop-third-debate/


18 posted on 10/28/2015 3:14:13 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: IBD editorial writer
Maybe some of those evangelicals are having a look at his religion. Or maybe some of the government income recipients are suspecting that he might not be the big spender they were hoping for.


19 posted on 10/28/2015 3:15:21 PM PDT by familyop ("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --"Deacon," "Waterworld")
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To: Jeff Head

IBD is the Wall St. news organization of the” cheap Labor Express”

Not surprised, they want someone who needs money and can be bought cheap.

They will be backing Hillary and that is good. The GOPe needs to get a knife in their back from the Cheap Labor Express. Traitors to the American Middle Class.

Trump made the Hedge Fund Guys his enemies with his tax plans closure of Carried Interest.


20 posted on 10/28/2015 3:15:40 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (A)
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