Posted on 02/15/2016 5:04:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A super-PAC backing Jeb Bush is aiming to bolster its efforts in South Carolina by adding a GOP strategist well-known in the state to help out in the final days of a "tight, volatile" primary race, Politico reports.
Richard Quinn -- a longtime adviser to primary race dropout Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina -- is taking on the role of conducting polling for Right to Rise ahead of Saturday's vote in the Palmetto State.
"This is clearly a tight, volatile race that could produce most any result over the next six days," Quinn wrote to Mike Murphy, the head of the super PAC, Politico reports.
Polling by the super PAC shows Donald Trump in first place, with a narrow 26 percent to 24 percent lead over Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and Bush in third place, with a 12 percent to 11 percent advantage over Marco Rubio, Politico reports....
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A insider poll done by the Bush Team? Yeah sounds non biased and trustworthy
Haha how long will this internal Bush poll be touted, haha.
Three other polls have come out showing what a crock this poll is. Of course, like they did with Iowa when Carson or Cruz showed up ahead of Trump, they’ll put this one out up until the election.
Let it go.
WTF? One post here about 30 minutes ago says Trump’s up by +13 and this says they are tied? Who’s lying?
Nice try 2D. That’s been posted about 15 times today, but since you are a Cruz fundraiser, I applaud your efforts on behalf of your candidate. Here’s some reality for those that didn’t see the previous 14 posts of the Bush insider poll.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3397489/posts
Carson has an internal poll that shows him winning. So there!
Levin reports Trump is now saying he’s threatening again to run as an independent; what a pompous ass - his way or the highway. Why can’t he take the high road, keep to the issues, stop lying and knock off the personal attacks? He’s ahead (or was before last Saturday’s meltdown) so what if he dropped a few points? He will drop a lot more if he keeps on trashing his way to the nomination, hence the independent candidate threat.
Thanks for the chuckle!
Bwahahahaha. The Cruzbots still pushing this “push” poll. That has the stink of desperation all over it.
My gut tells me that Trump is getting voters that are off the radar of the typical set of assumptions that pollsters use. That can lead to very inaccurate pre-election polling forecasts.
The other element is self service by campaigns. Bush can commission a poll for his campaign and dial in the turnout model applied to the results, and when he gets what he likes, he can release it through back channels to the press for whatever effect he would like.
Unless you have someone who gets to see the sampling plan, the weighting for turnout and the exact text of the polling questions, as well as the rejection rate of the pool of respondents - it's really hard to know how much faith to place in any given poll. The press today is naive enough to simply regurgitate polling results leaked to them, so, my first thought on this was to discount it heavily because it was the message the Bush campaign wanted to float, not necessary a reflection of real voter sentiment.
C’mon man...third time (at least posted) internal Bush PAC poll that doesn’t show Bush anywhere close and two days old. I know you’re not that desperate.
If you guys were really so sure about Don Trump marching to the nomination, you wouldn’t care what I or anyone else posted. But since you are, that tells me a lot.
I totally agree. But a Jebbie Bush internal poll? I should hope for Ted Cruz's sake that he has something more to hang on to than that.
Actually, if you were so sure Cruz was going to prevail you wouldn’t be grasping at straws like this. There’s got to be something more reliable or better sources that shows Cruz doing better...I’m sure you can dig it up. You’re better than that.
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