Sarah floats my boat.
Posted on 04/02/2015 8:35:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush continues to lead the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls, but one candidate is making moves.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the only GOP hopeful to formally announced his candidacy thus far, has shot up in the rankings in a new CBS News poll. Thirty-seven percent of those surveyed said that they would consider voting for Cruz in March, up 14 points from when the same question was asked a month ago.
By comparison, 51 percent said they would vote for Bush, just two percent higher than did in February.
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Sen. Ted Cruz has raised $4 million in the eight days since officially launching his White House bid, his campaign confirmed Wednesday night.
And in a sign of his appeal to grassroots conservatives, his campaign said that 95 percent of the contributions came in amounts of $100 or less.
Cruz, who formally announced his presidential campaign on March 23, remains the only major candidate in either party to officially launch a White House bid. He raised $1 million within a day of his formal announcement, and $2 million within the first three days, according to his campaign. Cruz’s campaign said bundlers accounted for one-third of the money raised and that 300 donors maxed out on their contributions to Cruz…
“Often you have an establishment candidate, usually the moderate, who will be well funded,” Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler said in a statement. “Here we have a candidate who is conservative and can raise money.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
TED CRUZ - MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO BE POTUS - 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
The first major test of the potential republican candidates for 2016 and only ONE passed. CRUZ!
GO CRUZ!
51% support Bush?! Brain fart brigade speaks again!
And moreover, Cruz is Conservative.
Praying Ted Cruz makes the primaries. The drive-by’s are going to be brutal.
There's a lot of rocky road ahead, Ole big ears, isn't done yet.
" Walker tops the field for the Republican nomination with 15 percent among self-identified GOP primary/caucus voters. He’s followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush who receives 12 percent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 11 percent and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee each at 10 percent.
Fox News Poll: Walker jumps to top of GOP field, (Fox News Official polls,April 02, 2015)
First you might want to make understandable sentences to communicate your rainy intentions (or did you mean whiny?).
We'll watch as you practice.
That sound you just heard was my GIGANTIC umbrella popping open.
You missed a good thread and a LOT of polls therein:
Sen. Ted Cruz Surging in Polls Since Announcement (Many Nat’l & State Polls)
A Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted March 26th – 29th had Cruz jumping into second place, receiving 13 percent. Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) leads with 20 percent, and Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) was third with 12 percent.
A March 26th – 31st poll by Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling showed Cruz in third place at 16 percent and within the margin of error (+/- 5.5 percent) of the top two candidates, Walker at 20 percent and Bush at 17 percent. Notably, this poll showed that Cruz had gained 11 points, and there were signs that he is consolidating the conservative vote, with Walker losing 5 points, neurosurgeon Ben Carson losing 8 points, and former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) losing 4 points.
A CBS News poll conducted March 21st – 24th asked Republican primary voters which candidates they were willing to consider supporting for President, and again, there was a positive trend for Cruz. He gained 14 points in response to this question since his announcement, as compared to smaller increases for Walker (5 points) and Bush (2 points).
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Wilson’s memo also described encouraging signs in Gravis Marketing polls in two early primary states, Nevada and South Carolina. A March 27th Nevada poll showed that Cruz had gained 12 points from the previous month, moving into a tie with Walker at 18 percent. Walker “is clearly moving on a different trajectory” than Cruz, notes the memo, as he lost 9 points during the same period.
A March 26th – 27th poll in South Carolina showed another gain for Cruz, 11 points since February, bringing him into a statistical tie at 13 percent compared to Walker’s 17 percent and Bush’s 16 percent.
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Chris Perkins, Partner at WPA Opinion Research, has been Cruz’s pollster since his 2012 Senate campaign and tells Breitbart News he saw strongly positive signs in these poll results. “Since the Senator’s announcement, there’s been a clear bump in support for his candidacy,” said Perkins. “Republican and conservative voters are searching for their standard bearer and the positive bounce in the polls indicates they are moving toward his message.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3275176/posts
You fully understood it, you wouldn't have pinged me if you didn't.
But seeing it was from you didn't surprise me.......
That FNC poll showed him tied with that fat goober Huckabee, OWWWCH.
When any of them are tied with Grahmanesty its time for them to end it all with dignity.
Read the rest of those polls.
Once again I am missing your point, but irrelevant points are not high on my list to think about.,
I only trust the ones that make it look like Crux is losing.
Of course you’re missing the point, it’s rare when you don’t.
Whatever floats your boat.
As long as I am annoying you, which you make clear that I am, I accomplished something here,
Sarah floats my boat.
Sad or sick comes to mind.
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