About what I'd expect for Donald from all the people who call him a bully and want a GOPe pick, but man that number for Cruz doesn't bode well.
Posted on 02/20/2016 2:47:57 PM PST by NKP_Vet
Preliminary exit poll results from the South Carolina GOP primary have been released.
Record turnout by conservatives and evangelicals is helping to shape the South Carolina Republican primary, along with vast support for Donald Trump’s stance on limiting the ability of Muslims to enter the country and substantial backing for deportation of undocumented immigrants.
Preliminary exit poll results indicate that three-quarters of the state’s primary voters support temporarily banning Muslims who are not U.S. citizens from entering the United States. That’s even more than the support for this proposal among GOP voters in New Hampshire, 65 percent – a core support group for Trump in that state.
Many fewer – but still more than four in 10 – favor deporting undocumented immigrants, another very strong group for Trump in New Hampshire. And, in another helpful result for Trump, four in 10 pick him among five top candidates as best able to handle the economy – twice as many as pick his nearest competitor on this issue, Ted Cruz.
Other results are potentially helpful to other candidates. Eight in 10 GOP voters in South Carolina identify themselves as conservative, and four in 10 as very conservative – both on pace to set records in exit poll data in the state back to 1992. (In 2012, for example, 68 percent were conservatives.)
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[I don’t know what in the world “preliminary” exit polls are? ]
Hopes and dreams of the MSM.
“many fewer” just doesn’t sound right.
Sigh.....
It’s those still being tabulated and analyzed.
Four out of 10 is not very many for deportation.
6 out of 10 support being replaced by cheaper laborers and barely hearing English when walking around the mall. Just crazy.
“Eight in 10 GOP voters in South Carolina identify themselves as conservative”
and they voted in graham and that 5th column gov. haley?
i don’t believe it.
Actually 4 in 10 is huge, that means it could be higher, people not wanting to admit it in a politically correct world.
“I don’t know what in the world “preliminary” exit polls are”
They are released after the precursory preliminary initial opening exit polls.
I wonder how many would support deporting ILLEGAL immigrants?
Four out of ten is about what the nation is on this issue....among the many reasons it cannot be done. Most folks don’t want it. Sad but true. (there are many other reasons too) - but we can secure the border, and that’d be a damned good start.
I have never told any exit pollster anything other than “ I voted” and none of their business.
This is about like reading chicken entrails to predict the future.
Fox News, in relating the exit polling just now, completely ignored mentioning the one that greatly supported the Muslim ban, by a large margin. That is good for Trump. I wonder if that can be used for some kind of index.
These results appear to indicate Trump is well ahead, with Cruz and Rubio battling it out for second.
Only 4 in 10 favor deporting. Very disappointing.
That surprised the heck out of me (if it is true).
>> I don’t know what in the world “preliminary” exit polls are? <<
Two things:
1. They won’t tell us candidate performance, until the polls close.
2. Since the polls aren’t closed, the data may be skewed by selecting early voters only.
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