Posted on 08/25/2015 3:14:05 AM PDT by HomerBohn
The Republican Party elite dismissed Donald Trump as a joke candidate from the onset of his campaign, but average Americans are convinced that the billionaire businessman is the contender most likely to take the GOP nomination.
That’s according to a poll from Rasmussen, which found an astonishing 57 percent of likely Republican voters believe that Trump will win the party’s nomination. Just two months ago, only 27 percent of Republican voters felt Trump had a shot.
But it isn’t just Republicans who believe Trump has an edge over his fellow candidates. Forty-nine percent of all voters say that Trump will be the Republican choice, up from 23 percent.
The wealthy celebrity businessman continues to lead the Republican primary field, polling at 22 percent in the latest Real Clear Politics average. Following Trump are Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 10 percent and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 9 percent. Tied for fourth, with 7 percent each, are Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
According to a recent report in USA Today, Trump’s campaign team is currently working to “consolidate the leads he enjoys in Republican polls; then turn out enough supporters to win early state contests; then ride a wave of new and energized anti-establishment voters to the Republican Party presidential nomination and beyond.”
From the newspaper:
Whatever happens in the next six months or so, the New York-based billionaire has put his political stamp on the summer of 2015, and Republican opponents will have to deal with him one way or another, sooner or later. At this point, Trump has convinced a large cadre of volunteers that he can go all the way by stressing issues like immigration and trade and attracting potential voters who have sat out previous elections because they dislike traditional politicians.
Trump on Friday planned a massive rally in Alabama, an event seen largely as a move to secure support across the Deep South.
Most voting records of incumbent congressrats are indefensible.
I meant “supposed to be a leader”. That’s why leadership is more important than empty policy pronouncements at this stage in the election.
Quotation of the day … is from pages 476-477 of the 5th edition (2015) of Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics:At one time, it was believed that importing more than was exported impoverished a nation because the difference between import and exports had to be paid in gold, and the loss of gold was seen as a loss of national wealth. However, as early as 1776, Adam Smith’s classic The Wealth of Nations argued that the real wealth of a nation consists of its goods and services, not its gold supply.Yes. And it matters not how Americans (or, more generally, how denizens of whatever country is considered to be the ‘domestic’ one) gain greater access to goods and services produced globally.Too many people have yet to grasp the full implications of that, even in the twenty-first century. If the goods and services available to the American people are greater as a result of international trade, then Americans are wealthier, not poorer, regardless of whether there is a “deficit or a “surplus” in the international balance of trade.
If the Chinese become zealous devotees of a religion whose doctrine requires that they serve Americans by shipping to Americans goods and services free of charge, then Americans are made better off. If the Chinese innovate in ways that lower their costs of production – and distribution and, thus, enable them to sell goods and services to Americans at lower prices – then Americans are made better off. If the Chinese invent new products and offer to sell these new products to Americans at prices that Americans find attractive, Americans are made better off. If the forces of international competition oblige Chinese producers to lower their export prices to levels closer to their costs of production, then Americans are made better off. If the Chinese government forces Chinese citizens to subsidize the production of goods and services sold to Americans so that Americans can purchase these goods and services at artificially low prices, then Americans are made better off (although Chinese citizens, other than those involved in the export trade, are made unjustifiably worse off). If the Chinese monetary authority buys U.S. dollars with newly created yuan in order to (of necessity temporarily) make Chinese exports artificially inexpensive for Americans to buy, then Americans are made better off (although Chinese citizens, other than those involved in the export trade, are made unjustifiably worse off).
The above reality is missed by people, such as Donald Trump (but hardly limited to him) who judge trade to be ‘successful’ only if the jobs and businesses that it visibly – that is, directly – creates in the domestic economy are perceived as being greater than the number of jobs and businesses that it visibly destroys. This error is among the oldest and most difficult to kill in economics – not only because this error is serviceable to domestic producers who greedily seek protection from competition, but also because it appeals to people who refuse to think beyond what is immediately and blindingly obvious.
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I love them too with lots of butter.
Keep on supporting the RAT Party, Homer!
That is what we have now, Gomer.
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Fifteen or twenty years ago a young lady, whom her daddy described as a late gift from God, went to school at Boston College.
A week after she arrived at school her parents got a registered, over night letter from her: “have money, send grits!”
Her daddy treasured that little letter so much he instructed his family to bury it and a packet of grits with him.
They did.
Hosepipe, your response to this post would make one believe you are a high school sophomore.
You just responded like a freshman.. which is no response at all..
When it comes do actually doing something he never gets it done.
Well it’s Washington D.C. knothead.. you expected what?..
Tell us why YOUR GUY is worth listening to instead why you don’t like someone else’s favorite.
OK.. Ted Cruz wants to return the US to a Constitutional REPUBLIC......
Which we’re NOT NOW.. and is the very source of all OUR Problems....
Not Obama, the GOPe or any of that...
AND..........
Donald TRUMP could care less about the US Constitution....
you know like ALL DEMOCRATS.... ( and MOST RINOs )
WHY?.. Glad you asked.. BECAUSE the US Constitutions entire purpose for being is to..
LIMIT THE FEDERAL GIVERNMENT.. no other reason for it..
Oh! and protect the STATE givernments... as a secondary..
Thanks for the ping.
You don’t know what a RINO is. You think you do, but you live in a fantasy world that hasn’t existed for 20 years.
Thats WHY you can NOT see TRUMP clearly..
Jesse its like dealing with grade schoolers up in here..
Bottom Feeders. The Trumpettes did not put them there, they did it all by themselves.
Oh so you’re for THE RINO?... i.e. TRUMP..
>>OK.. Ted Cruz wants to return the US to a Constitutional REPUBLIC......
Excellent!! I hope he steps up and tells people. But due to the state of public education in America for the last half century, he will need to spend a couple weeks explaining exactly what a Constitutional Republic is and why we aren’t one now.
When does he plan to start telling the people?
Keep on supporting the RAT Party, Homer!
By being FOR their STAR pupil TRUMP...
Your confused.... Im AGAINST TRUMP... getting anywhere NEAR the presidency...
But support some of his rhetoric for now..
Maybe I should back an H-1B visa pimp whose wife works for Goldman Sachs
Trump supports H1-b visas EXACTLY like Cruz does...
Actually he got it from Cruz like all his other good points.
His BAD POINTS... are just the RINO leaking out..
You need to get OUT more..
I expect the work to get done. After all I am paying for it! Cruz talks well but is way to ineffective to get anything done.
Knothead? The problem with Cruz supporters are they are childish. Shall we see who can post the best insults?
When does he plan to start telling the people?
Like from the beginning of his career?..
what are you TRUMPified?... or just lazy.. man..
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TED+CRUZ
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