Posted on 11/25/2015 7:14:30 AM PST by dangus
Donald Trump still has a healthy lead, at 33%. But it's become very clear that Ted Cruz is his primary competitor; he's up to 21%, as Ben Carson fades to a mere 12. Rubio is still the establishment's best hope, at 11.4%. Bush is rallying slightly at 7.9%, up from a low of 4.5%.
I'm not really bothered by Bush rallying; he'll only steal oxygen from Rubio. Fiorina is at 4.2%; Huckabee at 3.3%; Kasich at 2.5%; Christie at 1.9%; Paul at 0.6% and Graham at 0. That's right, 0.
(Excerpt) Read more at polling.reuters.com ...
Rubio is not ready for prime time. He’s too wishy-washy and subject to the left’s Schumer and McCain.
Voted most likly to go along to get along...
This is a set-up to win it for Rubio.
The GOPe wants a fight. Don’t give it to them.
Exactly!
But the Uniparty does not care they will be perfectly happy with anyone other then Trump. Hillary, Cruz, Rubio, Jeb are all acceptable to the globalist ruling class. Only Trump threatened their gravy train. Only Trump is not owned by billionaire donors, Chamber of Commence, Club for Growth, and the Wall St bankers. The rest not so much.
I’ll take it. If only to see the GOPe heads exploding.
Karl Rove will be working at Burger King by mid-2017.
Thus far I’m liking the way that this election season is going much more than 2012 or 2008. Even though my first choice (Rick Santorum) is mired in half-digits, my second choice (Ted Cruz) is doing well. Perhaps even better, the GOP-e’s first choices (Bush, Kasich, and Christie) are going downhill, and the alternative establishment choice (Rubio), for all his faults is definitely better than (The Father of RomneyCare and Homosexual Marriage in America) Romney or (Reach Across the Aisle and I Hate Social Conservatives) McCain. This isn’t over yet, but I think that the eventual outcome will be better than in previous election cycles. Hopefully.
I think Cruz has to beat Rubio on the under card before he can challenge Trump.
The 3 anti-GOPe are combined 56 percent. How do Yeb and Mario expect to win with a base that hates them that much. I like seeing the numbers up that high, because it shows the establishment how easy it would be to form a new party.
| Poll | Date |
Trump
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Carson
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Rubio
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Cruz
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Bush
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Fiorina
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Huckabee
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Christie
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Kasich
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Paul
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Graham
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Pataki
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Santorum
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Jindal
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Spread |
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| RCP Average | 11/15 - 11/19 | 27.5 | 19.8 | 12.5 | 11.3 | 5.5 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | Trump +7.7 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 11/16 - 11/19 | 28 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -- | Trump +10 |
| ABC/Wash PostABC/WP | 11/16 - 11/19 | 32 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Trump +10 |
| PPP (D)PPP (D) | 11/16 - 11/17 | 26 | 19 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Trump +7 |
| BloombergBloomberg | 11/15 - 11/17 | 24 | 20 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -- | Trump +4 |
Hahahaha. Does this mean even his mother won't declare for him?
-— Trump will get the Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich treatment. They will attempt to drive his negatives so high that only Trumps’ hard core supporters will vote for him. This strategy pretty much always works with enough effort. -—
I*m a Cruz supporter and I don’t think it will work this time. It hasn*t so far and there*s no reason to suspect that it will. People love his candor so they easily dismiss off-the-cuff comments.
-— This isn*t over yet, but I think that the eventual outcome will be better than in previous election cycles. Hopefully. -—
It’s almost a lock... Except for my biggest fear, Trump going third party.
Useful, but it’s week-old data at best, and doesn’t capture Cruz’s sudden, meteoric rise.
One poll doesn’t make a whole except for the one taken on election day.
The rest are guesses as designed by the polling entities.
The media is trying to manufacturer a lie over Trumps 911 comments, they might find something that works. And at least 3 super pacs (John Kasich, Jeb, Club for Growth (Cruz)) are gearing up to spend millions on negative attack ads. Club for Growth is already taking credit for Trump slipping in Iowa.
And then there are the daily attacks from Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC, Washington Post, NY Times and the rest of the Marxist media. It appears the entire political establishment is 100% committed to taking down Donald Trump no matter what the cost.
Maybe it's because their motives are too obvious, or that people are so attached to Trump that nothing will shake their support, but I just don't see the negative attacks working against him in a significant way.
OTOH, his negatives are already high, so I think he has reached his ceiling, as long as their are other true conservatives in the race.
In addition, the attacks may fail for two other reasons: (1) Trump can defend his positions with attacks of his own and (2) The funding for this effort is a clear demonstration that the attacker is going to be in dept to someone for this payment. Thus, the Donald remains the only candidate who is not bought.
That's true. Trump does what no one else has ever done, which is negative-attack jujitsu. He redirects their energy against them, with even greater force.
All conservative politicians should study this.
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