Posted on 10/30/2015 11:10:29 AM PDT by conservativejoy
Did Wednesday nights debate make a difference in the Republican presidential race?
Rasmussen Reports’ latest national telephone survey finds that 31% of Likely Republican Voters think Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee in 2016. Dr. Ben Carson is a distant second at 20%.
Eight percent (8%) of GOP voters see either Senator Marco Rubio or Senator Ted Cruz as the eventual nominee. Seven percent (7%) feel that way about former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, while four percent (4%) think ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina will get the party’s nod.
Seven percent (7%) of Republicans think the nominee will be one of the eight other major candidates in the race. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Because this survey ran over two nights, only one of which followed the debate, Rasmussen Reports asked voters which of the candidates will get the nomination rather than which one won the third intraparty debate.
It is interesting to know who people THINK will be the nominee.
It is also separately interesting to know who they WANT to be the nominee.
I was called for this poll. It was an electronic voice with answers recorded by touch tone response. It did not ask “Who are you voting for” but “ Who do you think will be the nominee”.
After I picked Cruz The machine started to ask s question about Kate’s Law and then hung up on me...
That’s weird. Don’t think we can trust any polls this far out. They will not really have skin in the came until close to the election. Until then, they are just tools of propaganda.
[[After I picked Cruz The machine started to ask s question about Kate’s Law and then hung up on me...]]
your vote probably wasn’t counted then
EVERYTHING is biased against not only the GOP, but specifically against Ted- Seems lots of people absolutely hate Ted- And the sad part is that He’s the only candidate that can get this party back to it’s founding roots- a strong no nonsense conservative base which does NOT cow-tow to leftist ideology!
[[They will not really have skin in the came until close to the election.]]
Exactly, the only real exception maybe being iowa- but then again I think it was santorum who won iowa but failed to get nominated
I agree with NOT trusting ANY polls! I’m old enough to remember 6 days before the election...Reagan was predicted to lose!!!
My DREAM team would be a Trump/Cruz ticket
the flirtation with Fiorina and Carson is over, I predict double digit lead for Trump from here on out.
That’s what I was wondering. I’d rather see polls ask, if the primary were held today, who would you vote for? Who the hell cares what they “think”?
"Trump Still Clear Leader After the Debate"
I have been following the Trump speeches, Trump an excellent speaker. So I question if Trumps popularity is actually because of the speeches as opposed to the debates.
And speaking of the debates, there are too many Republican candidates to make the debates meaningful imo.
GOPee and MSM are deeply saddened.
Your sign misspells Slovenia.
You think?
I'll bet it was counted, in the Trump column.
How else can Trumps high number be explained?
You caught that. A++. Who the hell cares “who people think will be the nominee”? You can’t make that up!!
Every debate the pundits tell us Trump lost. Then the polls show him going up.
Until someone else picks-up on his immigration and trade stances, I suspect it will stay that way.
I’m sure there are plenty of legitimate Trump supporters out there.
I don’t even think this was legitimate sabotage on Rassmussen’s part. I related my experience only to see if others had the same effect.
I thought Trump did very well in the debate.
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