Poll: Trump up double digits in Connecticut [Trump 25% Rubio 14%]

thehill.com ^ | November 18, 2015, 10:08 am | Mark Hensch

[GonzoII]

Donald Trump is leading the GOP 2016 field by double digits in Connecticut, a new poll finds.

Trump has 25 percent of likely Republican presidential primary voters in the Constitution State, according to an Emerson College Polling Society survey released Wednesday, an 11-point edge over the rest of the field.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) ranks second with 14 percent support. Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla) tie for third with 10 percent each.

ADVERTISEMENT Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson follows with 9 percent.

[taildragger]

I don’t mean to be inquisitive but is this before or after the votes from Meriden and Bridgeport are counted...

[matt04]

But, but Busway! We built a Busway! What else do you want to create jobs?

[entropy12]

This is poll of REPUBLICAN voters. It does not include the Rats. In general election, CT will reliably go in the Rat column.

[Berosus]

While I am pleased to hear Trump is doing well in the polls, why is this news? I can’t remember any time when Connecticut decided the Republican nomination, or a presidential election.

[kidd]

30% of Connecticut residents are hard unshakable conservatives.
30% are apolitical. RINOs, at best, the MSM shapes their views
20% still believe the democrat party is like JFK
20% are hard core leftists.

Thus Trump and Rubio do well in Connecticut.
Hillary Clinton will win Connecticut by a hair.

[jjsheridan5]

While I am pleased to hear Trump is doing well in the polls, why is this news? I can’t remember any time when Connecticut decided the Republican nomination, or a presidential election.

Actually, this is hugely important. The GOPe knows that their candidate will not fare well in the south, and probably the midwest/mountain states. Their overall strategy is predicated on the assumption that they clean up in the blue states. For Trump to be doing this well in states like Connecticut, NH, Mass, and Colorado, is devastating to them.

Connecticut itself won't decide anything. But states like Connecticut going to a non-GOPe candidate decisively destroys the chances of a Bush/Dole/Bush/McCain/Romney/Bush candidate. And for it to be falling in the hands of a candidate like Trump is their worst nightmare.

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[SamuraiScot]

While I am pleased to hear Trump is doing well in the polls, why is this news?

If Trump is doing well in a blue state, that's bad for the GOPe's strategy to nominate a RINO by making all the (later) blue-state primaries winner-take-all while the (earlier) red-state primaries are proportional. They set things up that way, hoping they could drop radioactive money bombs in favor of Yeb or Cruz to take all the blue-state primaries, once the red-state contests were over.

But if this result is a bellwether for red states in general, the GOPe strategy would bite them in the rear: All of a sudden, their attempt to "fix" the primaries would multiply Trump's momentum by handing him all the delegates in the later primaries, which happen to be in RINO states.

If this result is predictive of GOP primary voter behavior in blue states, the implications are, so to speak, "yuge."

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

30% of Connecticut residents are hard unshakable conservatives. 30% are apolitical. RINOs, at best, the MSM shapes their views 20% still believe the democrat party is like JFK 20% are hard core leftists. Thus Trump and Rubio do well in Connecticut.

Carson is leading in Connecticut according to Fox News. So it follows that the retard and the liberal vote was going to Carson until Trump took over.

[Dr. Sivana]

probably false. CT is a Dummycrap suburb. Dont tell me these libtards grew brain cells in a short amount of time...

Connecticut is more than Fairfield County. Democrats cannot vote in the Republican primary in CT (though I believe Independents can). The Republican Establishment in CT is worse than worthless, it is true, but there are a lot of decent people there still.

I am a Cruz supporter, but I fully expect Donald Trump to clean up in New England as things now stand. He appeals in a VERY big way to the guys at Pratt and Whitney and Stanley and Colt. CT is rather late, so John Ellis Bush should be a non-factor by the time the CT primary rolls around. The Establishment guys will go Rubio (or Kasich if he's still kicking).

A LOT of people in CT have just opted out of the whole process, and Trump may well energize them.

I left CT, but a lot of decent folks are staying behind for family and/or work reasons. (I left because I wanted a better environment to raise children after marriage).

When registered Republicans comprise only 20-25% of the state's population, that sometimes means that those who remain are pretty serious about it. These folks comprise a decent part of the ruins of the Republican Party that Weicker and the lefties wrecked.

Same thing applies to MA, only moreso, where Trump is polling 50% among Republicans.

[Dante3]

Who is voting for Rubio? Rubio is a lightweight and does not qualify under the Constitution. His parents were not citizens. This can become a huge controversy.

[MichelleWSC3]

I just posted another poll from NJ with Trump 31%

[Dr. Sivana]

A few years ago (early '90s), but this was the response to Weicker getting the RINOs and Dems to foist a state income tax on Connecticut residents:



You don't see that in NYC.

[GOPJ]

bump to the top

[dynoman]

Take me off the ping list, thanks.

[Albion Wilde]

Seen and noted. You’re off.

[GonzoII]

So did you get the state tax?

[Dr. Sivana]

Yes, and of course the original little rate was raised, and the exemption was lowered, and the state as a whole lurched further to the left.

We left 17 years ago. I still miss the apizza.