It’s a scam! All of these news organizations are out to get the Donald! How DARE THEY have polls that show a Cruz surge! That’s downright un-American!!! </sarc>
Keep on Cruzin!
Oh good grief. Let’s just get to a real Primary, shall we? Ask Huckabee and Santorum (among others) how important Iowa is. It ain’t.
My first choice and my vote are two different questions. I may not vote for my first choice.
Just as I thought. I said earlier that they’ll manipulate the numbers to place Trump second in this next debate.
Excellent analysis DoughtyOne.
Thanks for laying all of this out.
This polling outfit has a very good record in polls taken just before an election but not so much prior to the final poll.
I lke what Trump says.....but he, so far...has no answers. Like a lot of BS from both sides.
I thought this thread was about Hillary.
My bad.
Trump only does “UP”
Outstanding, thanks for taking the time putting that together!
I could be wrong but I think that surge was manufactured like the previous dead elephant bumps of Carly and Ben.
Is Cruz the anybody but Trump straw they’re grabbing at this week?
Sure seems like it.
Excellent analysis D1. Looks like you’ll be getting the usual comments from the Cruz supporters. God forbid you should point out anything negative about their candidate. Spot on with your comments regarding Cruz never hiring anyone with anything other than government money. I’m tired of speeches and theory. I want a candidate that’s got his own skin in the game, not donor and taxpayer money.
Putting too much stock in the polls leads to disappointments. When polls are inherently unreliable, there will be conflicting results.
Excellent analysis, DO.
Thanks.
you are on to them... we see them for what they really are: push polls...
and we have seen them used numerous times already to push Donald OUT and elevate some other candidate in his place.
jeb, Rubio, Kasich, Fiorina (most recently) carson...
after they end up being phoney fake polls with no “there” there... it goes back to Mr.T being the leader again.
Cruz push polls are the next in the roster of “lets try to get anybody but the one we cannot buy nominated” candidates that the GOPe is desperate to install.
Donald is the end of them and they know it.
Cruz AND Trump are too smart for this and they see the pattern:
once is accident
twice is coincidence
three is a pattern
and four is... makes it a certainty.
The GOPe will try to do this with whoever opposes Hillary too... She’s their gal, if they cannot get Donald out of the way. Bank on it.
You can see how badly the jiggered the numbers by the number of folks picking Carson or Rubio as second choice. Who would vote for Rubio as second choice? Or Carson either? First choice, sure, I guess - whatever floats your boat. But second choice presumes there is a preferred first choice. For Rubbio that would be someone down at the bottom like Jeb. But there are not enough Jebbie first picks to spill over into that many Rubio second picks.
That is the problem with trying to manufacture a complicated lie - it can never add up.
We for the first time in a long time, have two very good candidates in the top two positions.
There are personal favorites, understandably.
Those who wish to talk their guy up, go for it.
Those who wish to cut the other guy's knees off to make their guy taller, well, that is plain stupid.
Then there are those who got nothing but invectives and diatribes, screw 'em, all of 'em.
Regards these polls, well, they do appear somewhat, shall we say, massaged?
But really, are you surprised at all?
On a personal note, I want to see Trump kick ass like it has not been kicked for 35 years, then start the treason trials.
And while I am wishing, Chief Justice Cruz would be the move of the century, and would help shape LAW for another 30-50 years!