Posted on 02/17/2016 2:27:13 PM PST by ifinnegan
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has fallen behind Ted Cruz in the national GOP horserace, according to a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
In the poll, Cruz is the first choice of 28 percent of Republican primary voters, while Trump gets 26 percent. They're followed by Marco Rubio at 17 percent, John Kasich at 11 percent, Ben Carson at 10 percent and Jeb Bush at 4 percent.
Don’t tell Heidi he’s emailing you, but he just couldn’t wait to pander for cash...
Years upon years of poor stock market advice has conditioned Pavlov's dogs.
But plenty of candidates have dropped out, combined they had as much as 5-10pc of the vote yet Trumps lead has actually been stable or even increased.
Yeah, sure. Other polls were saying Trump something like 2:1 over Cruz and Rubio - nationally - and suddenly Cruz is ahead just a couple of days later. If anyone believes that politics changes that quickly, I’ve got some nice oceanfront property in Montana for you, with a scenic view of both the Brooklyn and London bridges, with Elvis, Jack Kennedy and space aliens for your neighbors.
LOL....how true.
“In addition to Trump’s decline in the GOP race, the new NBC/WSJ poll shows a nine-point drop in the percentage of GOP primary voters who can see themselves supporting the real-estate mogul — from 65 percent in January to 56 percent now.
The highest candidate scores on this scale: Rubio (70 percent can see themselves supporting him), Cruz (65 percent), Carson (62 percent), Trump (56 percent), Kasich (49 percent) and Bush (46 percent).
And in hypothetical one-on-one match ups, Trump trails both Cruz (56 percent to 40 percent) and Rubio (57 percent to 41 percent). In January, Trump was ahead of Rubio (by seven points) but behind Cruz (by eight points).”
I wonder what else was changed besides the weighting to a more very conservative polling sample? This could be a shift or an outlier poll. We will know Saturday.
After both, actually:
“The results from the poll - conducted after Trump’s victory in New Hampshire and Saturday’s GOP debate in South Carolina”
Trump will come to regret his comments about GWB... On 9/12/2001 George W. Bush was the most supported and beloved President in our history his poll numbers were in the upper 80 percent. He struck the right tone and he took action, real action against the Islamic threat.... It took wonder boy Obama to undo all of the things put in place to lose the war, and I am not just talking about Iraq, Iraq was simply a strategic decision in the broader Global War on Terrorism which Obama has rescinded... Doesn’t Trump understand this?
It only polled likely primary voters.
Large number of "registered voters" plus small sample of GOP voters, big MOE.
As much as I want Cruz to win I’ll wait until more polls show the race narrowing as much as this one says before I believe there’s been this big of a change.
Cruz surprised in Iowa.
Donald won in NH, with a nice bump for Cruz versus expectations, effort, cash, and electorate.
South Carolina is a new day. Cruz has shown strength and this momentum. Donald has previously owned the state.
We shall see......
She hit me up the other day.
Both asking for prayers.
As time passes, does conservatism or populism last?
Yeh its called a push poll. Nice try but no ceegar. :-)
“Trump Dominates in Bloomberg Poll Before South Carolina Primary (Trump 36 Cruz 17 Rubio 15)”................
So which is it, Trump or Cruz? Polls mean NOTHING, the proof is in the voting.
Yea like Cruz is doing...see this is why you guys are losing and will lose..badly. Angry cranks who resort to name calling. You guys want Trump to apply the marquess of queensberry rules here and let your guy blather on like a radio talk show host, while Trump stands but and just grabs the ankles. Want to know why we don't support Cruz, he's a loser in the general and many of us have had enough of pyrrhic victories.
The WSJ is wholly untrustworthy.
Still, I like their results here. Hopefully they are not too terribly biased.
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