Posted on 02/12/2016 5:28:08 AM PST by Helicondelta
Donald Trump has over double the voter support of any Republican White House hopeful nationwide, according to a new poll.
Over 4 in 10 Americans are backing Trump's campaign after his victory in New Hampshire's GOP primary last Tuesday, according to a Morning Consult survey released Friday.
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Trump is also viewed favorably by over 6 in 10 of his party's voters, pollsters found. He has a 67 percent favorability rating, while Rubio takes 62 percent and Cruz 61 percent.
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Here, here. The tone towards Cruz supporters here has been alarming for a few months. I don’t even recognize this site anymore.
The comment was about populism not Rockefeller republicans (who, like most republicans are not worth a bucket of warm spit).
Please think carefully about the sorry state of the electorate. What are they going to respond too? Issues? Personality? Populism?
You didn’t answer the issue. How will Cruz attract any but a very small core of support in the general, maybe 40-45% in some of the competitive states. He’ll lose the coasts, and most of any blue collar Midwest that still exists. He’ll get no crossover in the South.
Do the math, there is no path. He is dead fish in paper.
Then we get the criminal hag or the communist. Without populism we end up with the exact result you didn’t want.
Let me know when you have the state by state electoral math worked out and have a way to overcome the immense democrap advantage.
Respectfully
Amen!
There is also the fact that neocons have successfully stolen the definition of conservative. They are not conservative. Their policies have proven to be radical and ruinous and are rejected by the diminishing middle class.
The GOPe/Neocon overseers of the Faux Conservative plantation, keep trying to betray/control us to stay on/in their faux conservative plantations.
In NH, Trump and his voters ignored them, his voters voted big time for Trump, won and broke the rules of the plantation masters by voting for Trump in NH. This is scaring our former neocon masters of the faux conservative plantations.
It is wonderful to see this decades old, long standing corrupt political system disintegrating right before our eyes. This corrupt system hates working Americans, rewards illegals and those who bring them into America to freeload off the American workers slaving in the faux conservative plantation.
We are seeing a paradigm shift with us selecting our Presidential Candidate, instead of the GOPe elites, who hate us, selecting our candidates.
There is a Black Swan event occurring with the daily suicidal self wrought destruction of the GOPe, Open Border Thugs, DC faux pundits, Faux News, ABCNNBCBS and the left wing fish wraps. Something similar may be happening with the DEMes.
Many of us are looking forward to seeing the broken bones, drying blood and entrails of the Lying GOP Open Borders Elite, their DC faux conservative pundits, their mediots, their phoney pollers and focus groups, Faux, ABCNNBCBS, their hired tv and radio hacks strewn across the primary states as much as our victories in those states.
We have escaped from their faux conservative plantations, and we are not going back for more lies, abuse and mistreatment from our former GOPe masters.
I am not saying “shame on you”. I’m not saying your bad. I don’t have time to read through your posts to see if you are one of the many Trump fans who are attacking Cruz for his Christianity and his praying so I will assume you haven’t.
You are simply making a misguided decision in my opinion. MAYBE Trump will actually try to do the things he is currently saying he wants to do. MAYBE he will not back down in the face of public pressure. MAYBE he will not have a liberal or statist knee jerk reaction to whatever crisis comes up. MAYBE he won’t entirely change back to being a liberal again. I don’t know.
I just think the likelyhood of him letting us down is too big of a risk when contrasted by the alternate option of Cruz. Cruz is not perfect but he is a conservative. He always has been and he always will be. His instincts are conservative his foundation is conservative and he has enough spine to fight for what he believes.
I will vote for Trump if he wins the nomination and I hope that he follows through. I am not holding my breath.
Are you kidding me? There are Cruz supporters on this site, who have declared outright that Christians like myself, who support Donald Trump couldn’t possibly know Jesus. Our very faith has been mocked, because we happen to prefer a candidate other than Ted Cruz. I for one, am sick and tired of it. I was a major Cruz supporter at the beginning of the election and now you couldn’t pay me to vote for him. The way he conducted himself in Iowa with the “Voter Violation” squeal sheet, going after Carson’s supporters, and now blatantly lying about Trump, saying he bulldozes old ladies houses and is for homosexual “marriage” is outrageous. The tone and behavior of Cruz is alarming to many of us.
Hybrid.
The word is hybrid.
I respect your post and am pleased you are still open to persuasion. Mr. Trump has more work to do to earn your vote. If I thought one scintilla a possibility the disastrous outcome you postulated with a Trump presidency it would shameful to vote Trump. I haven’t posted anything about Ted’s Christianity. I will now. His public expression of his faith is borderline too much for me but otherwise no problem whatsoever. Another thing that bothers me a little is his wife being so political. Reminds me too much of another election where the saying was 2 for the price of 1. If Cruz wins the nomination I’ll vote him without a doubt. It’s going to be Trump or Cruz so it’s all good in the end.
but I’d hate to see the anti-government libertarianism streak of the Republican party be swallowed up by a more populist movement.
My husband called me in to watch that Trump interview with Sean. Sean is so dang full of himself...I about puked.
Otherwise known as Reagan conservatives.
Trump might be a secret globalist, too. No evidence so far. We stand a better chance with Trump who portrays himself as kicking against the anti-American multi-national globalist wackos. Lots of Americans are losing their jobs to relocation to overseas. Fighting against Anti-American corrupt power is what Reagan would do no matter what hat it is wearing. Reagan was PRO-American.
Then there’s that niggling 47% figure...
They will do that for any candidate, even if a GOPe is selected.
“I don’t know why I get attacked on a CONSERVATIVE forum for backing a CONSERVATIVE candidate for the Presidency.”
Some people reach a fanatic stage and lose all self control.
Things will get back to normal once primary season winds down and we’re up against the creme de la creme of late 1960s radical revolutionaries that the Democrats are throwing up, sorry, out there this time.
Hopefully the 1960s will be over and done come November ... I just hope we’ll be skipping the 70s and heading straight to the 80s :-).
What was very telling was the first stop of the Milo Yiannopoulos tour, a Breitbart news figure who is a provocateur who likes piercing political correctness.
He was at an event, and the social justice warriors stood up with fake blood they smeared on their faces and surroundings, screaming insults, chanting, marching around.
The crowd tried to yell back that they’d waited a long time to see this, that if you disagree leave, and then someone started chanting “Trump!” Others joined in, in a single chant that carried the message they wanted.
The association with Trump was anti-SJW, freedom of speech, traditional values, freedom of association, no to tyranny of the offended minority.
It was a powerful coalescing of the mood into a single anthem, a show that they agreed with a concept and against the SJW. The social justice warriors then left the venue, and the event continued.
In contrast, there were prior events I’ve seen video of where the conservative speaker is taken off the stage for fear the hecklers will harm them, where liberals pulled fire alarms or disrupted events to the point no one could discuss conservative opinions.
That is not what happened in this case. The crowd was able to show in a single word their views, their solidarity and not let the hecklers shout down the speaker. Instead, Trump’s name repeated shouted down the social justice warriors who left, and then the event continued.
It is interesting how they want safe spaces, but invade others’ spaces to make sure no one anywhere has a contrary opinion. They are the fascists they accuse conservatives of being. Average people are sick of it - and the fact that Trump’s name is now synonymous with the defense of their values AND the spaces people want to reclaim, there is more passion behind him than any candidate I’ve seen in my lifetime.
People wanted the hope Reagan gave them. People want the liberal fascists stopped and the bashing of everything from Caucasians to Christianity to men to marriage to stop ... and a large minority of the population sees one man, Trump, as the only one to save them.
Note: I don’t think Trump would be the dictator liberals are afraid of, but they ignore Obama ignoring the courts and legislation that would make it easier for anyone after him to rule by dictate. So if anyone else does become a dictator ruling by decree, that is Obama’s legacy.
The media has been pouncing on Trump for thirty years!
Trump has beat them every time.
Is Trump Romney? Hardly. Romney, an uninspiring candidate, ran a by the numbers campaign. Trump will be the most outrageous, inspiring candidate nominated by a major party since Reagan.
Reagan won Massachusetts, by the way.
Uh you need more than 40% of the electorate to win the election and with Trumps negatives it is really going to be hard!!!
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