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 ...
Elon hasn’t been a Christian school for about 20 years.
They changed their charter.
Their main claim to fame is as an answer to a crossword clue.
Now they are a poll to be considered?
I believe that's a very accurate assessment.
If he were smart he would shift the focus soon to Hillary and Bernie and I believe it would elevate his campaign by diminishing his Republican competition in the eyes of the voters.
So Ted takes 1% from Hillary, and retains his 4% from “someone else”.
Wow, Trump is significantly outperforming Reagan! Thanks for posting!!!
February 1980 -
Carter 58%
Reagan 33%
Poll taken before SC.
there weren’t 6 viable candidates running 4 years ago.. add Cruz to Trump and compare vs Rubio and Bush and you’ll see
and the point is making a big deal out of polls involving the democrats at this time is stupid.. totally meaningless
Same here, I think a lot of people get caught up in Trumps large margin of support in Republican circles.. but in general matchups, he doesn’t do so well. I think thats because he comes across as something of a jerk. Hoping that when (if) he wins the nomination, he acts a bit more..... electable overall.
Are people here REALLY this dense? REALLY? They are polling TWO SEPARATE GROUPS. I am not even going to try to explain it. I am just about to give up on here. If Trump gets the nomination, I will go all out for him, but we need to be reality based, not .... irreality based (new term I have coined)...
Trump is nothing like Perot. Perot founded his own third party; he did not run as a Republican. Trump is running as a Republican and shows no indication of withdrawing. He has already agreed if he loses the nomination fair and square he will accept it. If the party bosses shaft Trump, after he wins the delegates, then why shouldn’t the dishonest cheaters be hurt?
General election polls are meaningless at this point in the cycle. Pools showed Carter beating Reagan by a very comfortable margin at this point in the 1980 cycle and the same sort of data was touted as the reason why the Republicans would be crazy to nominate him.
Do not believe all of these polls claiming Trump is running behind Hillary.
They are all MSM polls concocted to try to scare Republicans from nominating Trump.
You can always tell who the Democrats fear most.
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.
That’s all well and good, but the election will be won in the Electoral college; there are ten states that have not voted the same since the 2000 election, and the totals without those states are Dem 242, Pub 179...of those ten states, Dems need win only NH, NM, NV, all highly probable wins, to get to 257, then VA wins it for them...or a combo of IA and CO...all with the Pubs winning FL and OH
Which of those states is Trump likely to deliver in the general...? He needs VA like a baby needs its mother...
I’ve yet to have anyone explain just how these polls account for the Electoral College.
Polling 8-12 people in each state really means little.
And, like you said, it’s still 8 months out
Low Democrat voter turnout and massive Republican voter turnout that is lead by Trump and people think that massive turnout won’t beat the geriatric candidates running on Dem side? We should all be concerned about college generated polls. After all they “feel the Bern”
He claims he can deliver some Democrat States. He does have Blue Collar Democrat support and independent support. If he picks Rubio as his running mate, he will pick up Hispanics.
It seems the GOP is actively working on destroying the party’s most popular candidate. Perot ran as an independent not as a Republican. The GOP was going to nominate Bush for pete’s sake.
BS!
The GOP would sabotage Trump in favor of Clinton but I also echoed your points.
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