Posted on 09/29/2015 3:59:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
- The Washington Times - Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Donald Trump Leads Ben Carson By 5 Points In North Carolina: Poll
Businessman and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is leading the rest of the Republican field in North Carolina and holds a 5-point advantage over No. 2 Ben Carson, according to a poll released Tuesday. Mr. Trump was at 26 percent in the poll from the Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling (PPP), followed by Mr. Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, at 21 percent. .Next was former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina at 12 percent, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 10 percent, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 9 percent, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 6 percent, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 5 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 4 percent. Mr. Trump had been at 24 percent in a poll released in August. Mr. Carson, who had been at 14 percent, has edged closer since then, increasing his support by 7 points. Support for Ms. Fiorina went up 6 points, from 6 percent.
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2016, its the new age of elections, politicians fail to qualify, the MSM is Americas enemy, and polls are meaningless up to and during the final vote, because they are manipulation tools.
If Trump is qualified than so is he. Making money in real estate is only slightly closer to being President than performing surgery is.
Nope.
Well ok, maybe more than “slightly” but running a company and running a country are more superficially than practically alike. Trump can’t fire Congress or the LEECH civil servants whose pensions are bleeding us dry any more than Carson can cut out their hearts with a scalpel.
If people with no political experience can be considered then people with no political experience can be considered.
I have to say though that I have trouble seeing Carson go toe to toe with the democrats. Trump is better at running a campaign than he is.
spoke with someone today who was in NC recently- he said they LOVE Trump in NC....this guy is not 100% behind Trump either
Carson has been campaigning in NC. He was at Lexington BBQ with Richard Petty yesterday I think. They had to tell him what a hushpuppy was before he ate it.
One thing he has done, and still seems to be doing, is to state a politically incorrect truth, and then stick with it despite the whirlwind he stirs up.
That is how he got on the map: by exposing - slicing and dicing nicely in fact - the Obamacare program.... right to Obama’s face, in person and on international tv.
While I do not care for some of the issues he seems to be more squishy on, when he does own a Truth, he sticks with it. I do respect that. Character the man has.
He’s bright, a quick study, and actually could do the job, imho. Is he my first choice? no. But I would vote for him if that were who the rest of the nation of Republicans puts before me.
How is Carson even in the race? Other than being a successful surgeon what has he done?
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What’s he done? Nothing.
why’s he in the race? Repubs want to show they’re not RAY-cess.
He’s weak and not capable of handing the job.
We need a steam roller like Trump to slap down the RINOs and clean up the mess the Marxist/muslim made, almost destroying America.
Same thing Rubio "did" when he was almost revered for being a Latino that sounded like a hard-core conservative. Also the same thing that Fiorino "did" by being of the right race/gender to "offset" the Dim's "female and wife of a former Black President".
Like Biden so aptly pointed out way back when - folks get really impressed by a literate, clean-cut Black man. They also get super impressed by a female who doesn't rattle when she shakes her head.
Bigots and fools meet and make silly assumptions based on race/sex/nationality and prove they ain't no better or smarter than the average low-info voter or rabid Leftist.
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