Posted on 02/22/2016 12:18:57 PM PST by justlittleoleme
The latest polling data shows solid support in North Carolina for Donald Trump with less than a month to go before the March 15th primary.
The Elon University poll finds Republican registered voters and Independents who describe themselves as leaning Republican favor Trump over all other candidates vying to be the GOP's presidential nominee.
The real estate mogul was favored by 28% of those voters surveyed, compared to 19% for Ted Cruz, 16% for Marco Rubio, and 10% for Ben Carson.
Trump v. Clinton
Donald Trump: 41 percent
Hillary Clinton: 47 percent
Neither/Someone Else: 9 percent
Don’t Know: 4 percent
Cruz v. Clinton
Ted Cruz: 46 percent
Hillary Clinton: 46 percent
Neither/Someone Else: 5 percent
Don't Know: 4 percent
(Excerpt) Read more at pulse.ncpolicywatch.org ...
Yet I hear the opposite—that he is the only one indies will vote for.
Trump can’t win. If he draws a large indieDem vote in crossover primaries, people say “See! The Dems want him to win cause they can beat him” but if he doesn’t draw indies, they say “See! He can’t win a general election.”
The only good thing you can say about our prospects with Trump is that although he consistently loses he’s at least within 10 points.
SO WHAT? The poll is completely meaningless. Trump will fight back whereas another GOP nominee would play nice. Anyone who believes Trump would lose to either Democrat has shit for brains.
DON’T WORRY. hillary was awful against Obama, who is nowhere near as clever as is Trump. Besides which, the Crone cannot possibly keep the charade up until November....the Wicked Witch will be in meltdown long before then.
GW Bush was down 12 points to Kerry at this point in 2004. But you keep pushing this “electable” myth. Gives you something to do and keeps you of trouble.
Have to agree with you Seaplaner.
Gee, which candidate has been hammered by the media and political etites for the last six months. Trump. Which candidate do the elites fear the most. Trump. Pay no heed to these pre reality matchup polls as they are useless..
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Consider the source. ALSO, there is essentially a three man race here and each group has people who claim they never would vote for any of the other two candidates. Once the smoke clears and the chips are down, hopefully conservative Republicans don’t pull the “purity test” and shoot themselves in the foot like they did in 2008 and 2012. I will vote for an support any of the GOP candidates currently running to keep Hillary, Sanders, Biden, Warren or any other Democrat freak away from the White House.
Liars! Trump is leading, Hillary may use her evil doers to steal the nomination from Bernie, but we will not permit her to steal it from Trump!
I’ve been horrified learning just how completely ignorant some of these young pukes are.
[Anyone who believes Trump would lose to either Democrat has shit for brains. ]
And if they don’t believe it, they will try their best to make it happen by staying home or writing in a BS loser candidate.
What blows my mind is supposedly Trump can’t beat Hitlery but Cruz & Rubio can’t beat Trump........ GO FIGURE!!!!!
A vote for Trump is a vote for Hillary or Bernie.
Who is the Republican nominee?
Pick any poll you like. They all show just about the same thing when it comes to general election numbers.
Trump will destroy the Democrat in the General election!
Exactly. The sooner we start that fight, the better.
Yes, all of the Democrats were hoping Reagan would win the GOP nomination.
So what? Newt Gingrich won South Carolina by 10 points more than Trump did in 2012.
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