Posted on 12/20/2015 7:27:14 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
It's Donald Trump in Illinois.
Trump, at 30 percent, is the top GOP presidential candidate in Illinois, according to a new poll, with double the points of Sens. Ted Cruz at 15 percent and Marco Rubio at 13 percent.
The billionaire real estate tycoon and reality show star, the national front-runner, polls first in Cook County, the collar counties of Lake, DuPage, Will, Kane and McHenry and in downstate Illinois, according to results shared with the Chicago Sun-Times.
GOP pollster Joe Caccitolo, who runs Compass Consulting, conducted the automated telephone survey of 2,104 likely Republican voters last Wednesday, the day after the fifth Republican debate in Las Vegas. More on the methodology below.
After Trump and the senators from Texas and Florida, in Illinois it's former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 7 percent; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 6 percent; Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 3 percent; former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at 2 percent.
Asked, "if the primary election for president was held today, for whom would you vote," 11 percent were undecided.
And while the entire field consists of other contenders not included in the poll -- South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham; former New York Gov. George Pataki; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum -- only 2 percent said their choice was for another candidate.
Caccitolo's polling snapshot comes three months before Illinois' March 15 primary and tracks the popularity of Trump in national polls as the crowded GOP field heads toward the first presidential vote in Iowa on Feb. 1.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
LOL
You are such a bad dog!
BAD DOG!!! BAD DOG!!! BAD DOG!!! BAD DOG!!!
Cruzers will be foaming at the mouth.
LOL
I’m voting for Cruz.
If you support single-payer healthcare, Planned Parenthood, no restrictions on abortion, and gun control, then Trump is your guy. Trump has favored all of these positions for many years, until changing his tune several months ago to bag gullible Republican voters. Anyone that believes Trump’s positions on anything should be an easy mark for a televangelist or TV huckster.
There are many other candidates, such as Ted Cruz, that have been consistent in their beliefs for decades. Anyone supporting Trump is pathetic.
Go Trump!
Poll is skewed, Jeb is at 7%.
We could give a rats ***
Everything I posted is correct and on the record. If you want to support Trump, that is certainly your prerogative, but you are not a conservative.
No one is foaming, however it’s nice that you see me as an aggressive attack dog: WOOF!
Yeb at 7%?
Okey dokey...
There’s got to be medication for this.
The pharmaceutical company that sells it could make a fortune from FReepers alone.
Trump isn’t going anywhere folks.
That hoped for crash, didn’t gel.
Seems like some folks around here kept saying it wouldn’t.
Wonder who that was...
Go Trump!!
Kinda neat to have an IL poll so early. Go Cruz, says I.
Voting for Trump. GO TRUMP GO
Go DT go! Crush islam! Restore Christmas as the Founders intended! Take America back! Exterminate liberalism!
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