Trump Has Huge Lead Over Cruz in Two SC Polls

NewsMax ^ | 2-12-2016 | Cathy Burke

[smoothsailing]

February 12, 2016

Trump Has Huge Lead Over Cruz in Two SC Polls

by Cathy Burke

Donald Trump has a commanding lead in the GOP presidential primary field in South Carolina in two new polls – including one in which the real estate billionaire has more than double the support of his nearest rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

The surveys, the South Carolina House Republican Caucus, and the Opinion Savvy Poll, come just eight days ahead of the Palmetto State's Feb. 20 primary.

Here's the breakdown in the South Carolina House Republican Caucus survey:

• Trump: 34.5 percent
• Cruz: 15.5 percent
• Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: 13 percent
• Florida Sen. Marco Rubio: 12.5 percent
• Ohio Gov. John Kasich: 8.5 percent
• Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson: 5 percent
• Undecided: 11 percent

Trump beats the competition among conservatives, moderates, libertarians, independent and across age groups – and even edges out Cruz with tea party Republicans, 37 percent to 36 percent.

The results were posted by The Hill. 

In the Opinion Savvy survey, the results show:

[bog trotter]

Uh, missed that one..
What war hero? Kerry?

[Harris]

I’ve seen nothing unmanly about Ted. He’s quite courageous in the Senate. Trump on the other hand is a real pussy acting as a bully to hide the fact. Trump pays off Hillary, Schumer, Reid, Pelosi and talks how great they are when he is scared they will take some of his money.

It stings, don’t it?

[jimbo807]

That’s all you have? lol

[Harris]

No one could spend days cutting Trump down to size. Is that all you have?

[Harris]

And I note you didn’t offer anything to prove Cruz is unmanly.

[jimbo807]

No, but we’ll just leave it at the point where you claim Ted is more manly than Donald. I’ll let you win.

[bog trotter]

AMEN!

[beandog]

If being a loud mouthed, obnoxious, adulterer makes one manly, than the Donald is definitely more manly.

[HLPhat]

>>jimbo807 said So your essential point is that Trump is going to usher in Soviet style communism?

The symptomatic behavior observable in the historical record of "National Populism", and human nature, is the essential point.

De Tocqueville called it the "Tyranny of the Majority" when he saw it in the French Revolution.

That was the flaw in Jefferson's "CODE FOR MORALITY", which was rooted in the delusion of enlightenment thinking.

Evidently Jefferson didn't pay enough attention to Romans 1:22 --

Rom 1:22
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
NIV

And here we are again...

[jimbo807]

I honestly have no idea what the hell you are trying to say...

[Theodore R.]

Oops native Texan Jebbie is about to overtake adopted Texan Cruz. So sad, but it is SC.

[TexasCruzin]

If you really believe that pack of lies, you have much bigger problems.

[HLPhat]

For another perspective - see C.S. Lewis’ essay:

“The poison of Subjectivism”

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=CS+Lewis+the+poison+of+Subjectivism

Donald Trump’s “Populism” is symptomatic of that.

[HLPhat]

What do De Tocqueville’s “Tyranny of the Majority” and C.S. Lewis’ “Poison of Subjectivism” have in common?

[bog trotter]

“Browbeating and being condescending are not great motivators.”
For sure!
I once told a school principal that you don’t bring kids UP by putting them down.
Same here.

[smoothsailing]

Not surprising. I don’t think folks think of Cruz as a southerner or a Texan. They see him as a fancypants Washington lawyer.

[patriot08]

I see him as Canadian

[smoothsailing]

[patriot08]

i am SO stealing that photo of Cruz!

[austinaero]

“I am in it for America. Not Jesus.

Guilty as charged.”

Me too and it doesn’t mean I love Jesus any more or less than the next Christian.