Poll: Trump and Kasich neck-and-neck in Ohio; Trump leads in Florida

CBS News ^ | March 14m 2016 | Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Jennifer De Pinto, Sarah Dutton

[Innovative]

Donald Trump keeps his lead in winner-take-all Florida, at 44 percent over Ted Cruz's 24 percent and Marco Rubio's 21 percent. In Ohio, Governor John Kasich is tied with Trump 33 percent to 33 percent, in two of the big winner-take-all delegate prizes up on Tuesday.

[Innovative]

I hope Trumps wins both of those states.

Rubio is done after this.

[austinaero]

I really hope Trump wins Ohio. It’s so stupid for anyone to keep voting for Kasich at this point. A vote for Kasich is a vote for the establishment.

[Mr Apple]

Governor John Kasich is tied with Trump 33 percent to 33 percent

Of course this is a cbs poll -too funny.
Kasich will be lucky to garner 10%.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Poll: Trump and Kasich neck-and-neck in Ohio; Trump leads in Florida

Let's see:

Kasich:

Pro Amnesty
Pro Off-shoring
Pro Common Core
Takes money from a NAZI (Soros)
Chief endorsements from Boehner and Romney
Pro Gun Control

(At what point does a RINO actually become a dem?)

Trump:

Pro AMERICA- That's all I need to know!

[SmokingJoe]

Trump is finished in Ohio.
Last 4 polls at RCP have Kasich +5 +6 Tie Tie.
RCP average has Kasich at +2.7

www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/oh/ohio_republican_presidential_primary-4077.html

With his vastly superior ground game in Ohio, Kasich takes Ohio and it won't even be close.
I still remember when the polls had Trump leading Ted Cruz by 12% in Kansas. The actual result? Cruz CRUSHED Trump by 25%!
Trump almost always way under-performs his poll numbers.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-US&ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-metropcs-us&source=android-browser&q=kansas+gop+primary+2016&gws_rd=ssl#eob=m.0488g/R/2/short/m.0488g/&gws_rd=ssl

[austinaero]

Trump:

Pro AMERICA- That’s all I need to know!

BINGO! I agree with you 100%

[grania]

Remember back when Cruz was in command and didn't want to take out Kasich when he easily could have? I was cyber-screaming back then that Kasich was a dangerous campaigner if he got a start. The Cruzers were saying he wasn't important. In Math, if you can disregard a veriable instead of it becoming part of the equation, that's what you do.

It was back then that I was suspicious that Cruz was part of a favorite-son strategy, and then those state winners come together to overwhelm the process. Cruz's resume is just way-too in the Bushes for him to be truly independent.

Now, the puppetmasters are so desperate they're trotting out Romney, who refused to even campaign for a huge part of the OH vote in 2012.

If Kasich loses here, it should be the end of the scheme. And the end of Kasich polluting politics.

[Duchess47]

It’s a bit difficult to perform to poll numbers when you have to contend with voter fraud.

[SmokingJoe]

You mean the massive voter fraud carried out by Trump bots in Nevada?

[Liz]

GET THE WORD OUT FAST-----NO TIME TO WASTE

Kasich was managing director of Lehman/s Columbus, Ohio investment banking division until the bank went under in 2008 but says "I wasn't involved in the inner workings of Lehman, I was a banker. I didn't go to board meetings or go and talk investment strategy with the top people."

Kasich is lying b/c a report in The Columbus Dispatch, quotes a Lehman official who said Kasich had “board level and CEO relationships where he helped not only open the door for Lehman Brothers, but he also was a key member of the deal team providing advice.”

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What does Kasich know about this?

The best book on the 2008-9 crisis was “The Sellout,” by Charles Gasparino. He traces several threads:

- How the investment banks (Merrill, Lehman, Bear Stearns) had leveraged themselves into near-death experiences before

- How sap-happy liberal US government policies virtually forced banks to make low-down payment mortgages to buyers with sub-standard credit, forcing up prices

- How the scam of "securitization" meant these sub-standard loans could be bundled up and sold far and wide (w/ great losses to the buyers)

- How the ratings agencies gave out dubious AAA ratings

- How the sales incentives to create mortgage-backed securities led to incredible short term behavior on the part of investment bankers

- How AIG (insurance) screwed up by guaranteeing many of these in Credit Default Swaps....etc, etc, etc.

It took an unholy confluence of events—government policy, investment banker greed, and last, but not least, securitization to create the perfect storm.....and swamped taxpayers w/ billion dollar bailouts.

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Kasich got the Lehman job b/c he introduced Ohio pension reps to Lehman officials (2010)

Did Lehman do any education, transportation, municipal bonding deals for Ohio? That/s where the pols and the bank make zillions of dollars in perpetuity.

Also leaves the taxpayers w/ huge tax bills....in perpetuity.

[Liz]

breitbart.com---Kasich came out in support of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement during the fourth GOP primary debate hosted by Fox Business; Kasich said the deal is “critical.”

“The trade agreement – the TPP – it’s critical to us not only for economic reasons and for jobs because there’s so many people who are connected to getting jobs because of trade, but it allows us to create not only economic alliances, but also potentially strateigic alliances against the Chinese,” Kasich argued in support of the nearly 6,000 page agreement – longer than Obamacare and the failed Gang of Eight immigration bill combined.

“They’re not our enemy, but they’re certainly not our friend,” Kasich said about China.Kasich was questioned about cyber attacks and Chinese investments into the U.S. “China doesn’t own the South China Sea and I give the President some credit for being able to move a naval force in there to let the Chinese know we aren’t going to put up with them anymore,” Kasich charged.

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Kasich is aiding and abetting Obama.

Obama considers TPP central to his presidential legacy and to his foreign policy and economic legacies.

No 'conservative' in their right mind would ever vote for TPP----which has horrendous consequences for American workers.

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TPP is best understood against the backdrop
of Obama's post-presidential get-rich-quick foundation plans.

NOW ISN'T THIS INTERESTING? few, if any, of the RCEP and
TPP countries contributed to the buck-raking Clinton Foundation.

Looks like the Clintons and Obama divvied up the globe so that each have their own countries in order to collect big buck get-rich-quick foundation donations, honorarium, cosultancies, and int'l insider business deals.

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THE FACTS ARE THESE Obama's trade deal giveaway is a huge scam...best examined against the backdrop of Obama's two tax-exempt foundations (two-that we know of). Obama's priming the pump for donations to his two Foundations.

All of Obama's thinly-veiled actions....

(1) promoting TPA and TPP,

(2) his immigration suck-ups

(3) his non-action WRT ISIS, IRAN....

.....are best understood against the backdrop of Obama's future get-rich-quick plans as an ex-president----more specifically, his two get-rich-quick Foundations (two foundations that we know of).

All these entities control billions of dollars---and Obama is lying-in-wait for his share: foreign donations, lucrative insider trade deals from untapped resources, energy deals, telecom deals, arms sales, consultancies, million dollar honorarium...and so on and so forth.

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WIKI REFERENCE: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and the six states with which ASEAN has existing FTAs (Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand). RCEP negotiations were formally launched in November 2012.

[SmokingJoe]

Remember back when Cruz was in command and didn't want to take out Kasich when he easily could have?

When was that?
Right now, I am happy thankful that Kasich is still running to deny the massive winner take all delegate haul in Ohio to Trump.

[caww]

Yep!

[grania]

SJ, you've been around since 2008, and you still haven't created an "about" page. I just checked because I wanted to see if you're in OH.

I don't think it's a done deal for Kasich in OH. It's tough to poll, as there are pockets that overwhelmingly favor one candidate. Then there's the economy that varies wildly in different parts of the state. Then there's the early voting done when blue collar dems, many voting early when they switched parties. Some parts of the state and the Republican establishment have done very well by Kasich, while others are still bleeding manufacturing jobs.

Oh? And what superior Kasich ground game? I haven't been contacted, even once, about voting for Kasich.

[1Old Pro]

A vote for Kasich is a wasted vote on a disinterested candidate with no chance of being nominated.

Vote for the future, vote Trump!

[grania]

Early in the campaign, when Cruz was drafting off Trump and campaigning strongly against Rubio, I kept saying "what about Kasich"? I kept getting the answer that "Kasich isn't important; he'll never get anywhere". They can't be that dumb; it had to be something else.

That's back when Cruzers were contending it would be a lock for Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump.

[Duchess47]

LOL, we aren’t easily bought here. As a matter of fact, Nevada ought to scare you. The Republican party tried their best to limit voters, our Attorney General stumped all over for Cruz, and we went to the polls angry and determined. In a straight up primary Trump’s numbers would have been much higher.

[King of Florida]

I don't think anybody is suggesting that Kasich is going to get anywhere even if does win Ohio. At most, he stays in the race, diluting the anti-Trump forces along with Lyin' Ted ("He raises the Bible high, he puts the Bible down, and then he liiees."). I suppose he remains in the conversation as a possible Not Trump candidate at a brokered or contested convention.

[SmokingJoe]

That's back when Cruzers were contending it would be a lock for Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump.

The nomination is still a lock for either Cruz or Trump. Nothing much is changed as far as that is concerned.

[SmokingJoe]

I have repeatedly stated I live in New York. I don't have to live in Ohio to know that Trump regularly underperforms his poll numbers or that Ted Cruz has been outperforming his poll numbers by approx 12% so far.