Posted on 02/29/2016 3:08:18 PM PST by drewh
Businessman Donald Trump’s support among Republican voters has hit a new national high of 49 percent, according to a CNN/ORC poll. By contrast, the party's nominee in 2012, Mitt Romney, didn’t reach 49 percent in a poll until mid-April of that year.
As YouGov’s William Jordan noted, Romney’s highest polling number prior to that was 40 percent, which he achieved once in mid-January 2012 and once at the end of February. Support for Trump has been over 40 percent in the last four national polls, and flirted with the 40 percent mark in some polls in early December.
Single polls can vary considerably, though, so a better metric is how Trump is performing relative to Romney in the polling averages. Here, too, Trump has the advantage.
Trump is averaging over 10 percent more support than Romney was at this point in the 2012 cycle, and has consistently outperformed Romney’s polling averages since September. The gap was narrower at the beginning of this month -- Trump was averaging 36 percent support compared to Romney’s 30 percent in 2012. But Trump’s numbers have risen quickly in recent weeks.
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As long as the idiots keep tossing mud at him, the numbers will keep going up.
Well, Donald doesn’t wear magic underwear, nor did his church diss black folks up until 1978, so it makes sense.
That is good, because Romney lost! ;-)
See who the media is lying against Trump .
Trump is who we should support!
Trump will stop TPP!
Trump will stop China
Trump will stop illegals with the wall
The media , Rubio,the GOPe etc. all want trump out because Trump is for America and for freedom.
They all want to inundate the USA with hundreds of millions of 3rd world socialists. TPP does this.
If Trump is able to overcome the media lies and become president Trump will save the USA.
Trump if he can pull it off will save America from Cruz, Rubio, Jebb or Hillary all of which would have produced the exact same results the destruction of the USA by not stopping the flood of illegals and immigrants.
Trump is the only one I trust out of those running or that ran. Truly Trump will do a heroic thing risking his fortune and success to literally save us from falling in the abyss. Trump is a modern day William Wallace of braveheart only 10 billion times better. if he can become president we will all owe him our freedom , and property and lives.
Definitely Obama had the USA at the tipping point and with TPP etc. they would have destroyed the USA sending it into the abyss. But at the last second Trump arrives , really the only person in the world that i see that could have done it, saved us, and the only person in Washington that is not corrupt or bought off by the globalists and marxists.
Trump is our last hope
We know.... well I knew. ;-)
Votes are up in every state thus far and yet the establishment is not happy and wants to take Trump and was Ted down.
And then they wonder why they are hated with a passion.
They were also a month ahead in 2012. Iowa in January
Votes are up in every state thus far and yet the establishment is not happy
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The establishment hates Trump but the reality is that the GOPe brought this on themselves. If the GOP had served its voters there would be no Trump candidacy. They stabbed conservatives in the back and now its payback time.
Excuse me. I’m Mormon and take offense at your remarks. Mitt’s crap is his own.
Offense at “revelation” suddenly doing a 180? Please....
You’re a nasty person
It appears factually accurate.
Mitt does have a temple recommend, so he should be wearing the magic underwear, or he has problems.
The Mormons did exclude blacks as bearing a curse.
How could you be offended by that?
However will Romney be shoved into the convention for a brokered one?
Do you describe Jews as wearing magic hats. And how about that Catholic magic water? Don’t be obtuse.
No - but the magic underwear (not a Christian thing) are widely believed to possess powers that stop bullets and all kinds of silliness.
Given that young Joseph Smith practiced divination with a “seer stone”, I don’t see this description as inaccurate at all.
Cc - greyfoxx, please add or correct me.
No, I live in reality. I know more about your “church” than 95% of your “active members”.
You should read up.
The country is at stake and we need to come together. And you want to bash other religions? I would suggest you put aside your hatred for the time being and let’s all work together for now. Peace.
Mitt Romney doesn’t seem to agree with you, based on his wild accusations. Income tax “bombshell”? Trump likes the KKK? Yeah, I know Mitt is one of you, is such a saintly fellow, so you certainly cannot be critical of him.
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