Posted on 11/30/2015 10:36:42 AM PST by JSDude1
None of us knows how this election is going to play out, but the one thing that we can say is that this has been the most entertaining presidential primary season ever. By far the most amusing part has been the utter state of panic the GOP establishment has been in since the voters took a look at their “electability†candidate, Jeb Bush, and started laughing. Since then one nightmare has followed another. If I’d had the foresight, I could have financed my children’s college expenses by selling brown trousers to the US Chamber of Commerce and the GOP Senate caucus.
Right now the GOP establishment is panicking over the specter of a Donald Trump candidacy. But if that wasn’t sufficient to get those panties wetted, now a fear of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% is setting in.
Mainstream elected Republicans now see Cruz as a bigger threat than Donald Trump or Ben Carson to clinch the nomination — but equally damaging to their party’s chances of winning the White House and keeping the Senate next fall. Rubio would be a much stronger general election standard bearer, they believe.
This, of course, is patent nonsense. For the first time in my memory none of our top tier candidates has an “electablility†issue. Rubio does poll stronger against Clinton, but Clinton is either behind or in a statistical tie with the top six GOP hopefuls.
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It has begun....
I do not believe the polling that says Rubio is the sole Republican that beats Hillary.
With the leads Trumps has had in the polls it doesn’t make sense that someone further down in the results can bypass 2 or 3 other candidates as the winner of the election.
Maybe I am being simplistic, but I would think that the person that leads in the polls for the nomination would necessarily be the one that Republicans think would be most able to beat Hillary.
So is it:
Trump’s support is hollow and is only supporting him for the nom against other Republicans but would rather vote Hillary
There are two significantly different populations being polled.
The sample sizes are too small and not a significantly significant amount of voters being polled thereby skewing results or the sample sizes between the two polls are vastly different.
My point here isn’t that Trump would win, but I’m not quite getting the incongruity between the two poll results. Any thoughts to help my understand this better?
“Hillary is doing so much worse than most people think.”
Her closet of skeletons is so full they’ve had to rent a warehouse. The doors won’t open to that nightmare nest until after we have a candidate.
It was always a possibility, why would they panic. Wait till he wins Iowa, then panic.
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