Posted on 08/11/2015 11:34:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Trump needs more careful strategy and less winging it would be wing it when building a building or a company.
Your point being that Net Worth is a valid proxy for Intelligence?
Can we also assume that it is linear? Like a person with a 1 million dollar net worth is exactly twice as smart as a person with a 500,000 dollar net worth? And everyone’s goal of course is to maximize their financial net worth. No one who say, becomes a priest or a kindergarten teacher is doing it for any reason other than that job is the highest paying one they could get? THESE ARE FASCINATING POINTS! I love what you have taught me!
We’ll see how things look as more polls are published. But I never understood how Trump went from the mid-20s to 30% and more in a few polls in late July, Rasmussen being one of them.
I think his support level has been around 25%, plus or minus a couple of points, and around 18% in state polls for Iowa and NH.
“She had blood coming out of her wherever.” - D. Trump (Genius)
Earlier polls showed increases for Cruz and Trump. So the trend is not yet established. But I have said elsewhere I was puzzled by Trump's late July jump from the mid-20s into the low 30s. Saw no reason for that at the time.
I think Trump's support is and has been in the mid-20s nationally.
Rassmussen sold his company a few yrs ago to a left of center company. Ever since then they have been in the tank for Obama. They consistently have his approval over 50% when others have him in mid-low 40’s
I think he mixed his metaphors. Most people I know would have said she was "out for blood".
This poll has Cruz in 7th. Doubt it.
I get a kick out of you guys who can dish, but suddenly turn to 1000 year old china when someone dishes back.
Don't be so brittle. You'll be okay. Promise.
The intellect argument suffers considerably when you realize Trump was at one point under water in 1989, and today is worth $5 to $10 billion.
Trying to pass him off as some second to Cruz's intellectual prowess is just silly. What has Ted Cruz created in his lifetime?
Has he owned or run a successful business? How many people did he employ. How many thousands of humans survived off the money their family collected working for him?
I hadn’t noticed Huckleberry’s photo...lol.
That's what Megyn pulled. The first volley in total character assassination of Donald Trump. My suspicion is that he's polling very well with women, so the goal was to make him appear to be anti-woman.
Trump had no choice other than to bring it out in the open. But, as I said, now I hope he comes out with some very excellent specifics about how he'd save the US.
Trump inherited a real estate empire, then leveraged it massively when prices were low in the 1970’s and rode the resurgence of New York to a great outcome. Notwithstanding a number of very bad business ventures including, The New Jersey Generals, Trump Air, and a slew of bankrupt casinos, the rising prices of NYC real estate have meant that he has gotten very rich.
That’s great, but I mean if his father had left those assets to a cocker spaniel, the cocker spaniel’s heirs would be very rich now, too. Owning rising assets is not a mark of intelligence, anymore than being on an airplane is a mark of personal bouyancy.
If that is where Trump is after the debate performance and the past weekend’s festivities, I’m thinking he’s ok with that. Not too shabby of a post-mortem.
The weird outlier is Obama, who is on TV more than any previous POTUS, nearly every day.
With the way the polls are all over the map, my best guess is that current polling techniques simply can’t produce accurate results on a field of 17 candidates - most support levels are at or near the size of the margin of error.
The other thing I’m noticing is that polled support levels seem to reflect the amount of recent media coverage a candidate has gotten more than anything else.
Support candidates with the best policies and ignore polls for now. When the field narrows to 5 or 6 then the polls might become more meaningful.
And as a result he contradicts himself every day! It’s just not good modern journalism to remind him of it?
First place is first place. Walker and Bush would kill for 17%.
LOL!!
“Trump’s support will all wind up with Cruz, who is just as outspoken, but a lot smarter.”
Hope you’re right!
I agree. He should have called her out and let it go. The WORLD saw what she and Baier and Wallace tried to do. He could have walked away a huge winner. Now I’m afraid Kelly will win.
I do hope Trump puts out Kelly’s interview with Stern. And I especially he sends it Ailes.
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