Posted on 04/01/2015 6:31:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A Public Policy Polling (PPP) national survey conducted from March 26-31, 2015 shows Ted Cruz pulling into contention with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, for the GOP presidential nomination. The survey, released on April 1st, but apparently not as an April Fool’s joke, shows Ted Cruz gaining ground on the leaders, and sitting in a strong third place position for the Republican nomination. His presidential announcement speech at Liberty University appears to have resonated with Republican voters.
Cruz has surged from 5 percent support a little over a month ago, to 16 percent now. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker still leads with 20 percent support. Jeb Bush is in second at 17 percent and Ted Cruz is at 16 percent. Ben Carson and Rand Paul sit at 10 percent each. Four other candidates (Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie, and Rick Perry) remain mired in the single digits.
With Republican Party voters, Ted Cruz is popular. 52 percent of GOP voters have a favorable opinion of Senator Cruz, to just 30 percent who view him unfavorably. His support is especially strong with Republicans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters. With Tea Party Republicans, Cruz enjoys a 74 percent favorable rating to 21 percent unfavorable rating.
It would be very easy to dismiss Senator Cruz’s candidacy as a joke, given his penchant for outlandish remarks, and impractical proposals like abolishing the IRS and repealing every single word of Obamacare. However, his particular brand of madness seems to have attracted him new supporters from within the ranks of the GOP electorate.
Polling consistently shows that Republican voters are not warming up to Jeb Bush’s candidacy. GOP primary voters are seeking a more conservative alternative who will give voice to their radical right-wing perspectives, informed as they are by talk radio hosts and the 24/7 bash Obama cycle over at FOX News.
Senator Cruz has tapped into Republican resentment, stoking the politics of rage to fuel his campaign. Whether or not his polling surge is but a temporary bump, or a more permanent boost that could make him a threat to seize the Republican nomination, remains to be seen. But one thing is now clear. Ted Cruz’s policy prescriptions may still be a joke, but his candidacy no longer is. America had better be ready because if Senator Cruz’s momentum continues to grow, the Republican primary could descend into madness, dragging the whole country along for the ride.
Constitutionalist Cruz=madness
El oh el.
Saddle up!!! Lol
Same folks who threw a collective hissy during the two stages where Newt was dominating the polls in 2011-12......and this time, they know Cruz is not nearly as likely to implode....
Heh heh heh.
Clearly Keith Brekhus is a bigot who hates Hispanic people.
End of discussion.
Next...
Cruz to victory.
Note that they never give examples of “outlandish” statements made by Ted Cruz!
Just wait. The flop sweat from the Democrat media will be oozing through TV and computers screens from sea to sining sea.
What we need are enormous rallies that will scare the excrement out of the media. As long as the Left can lie and make it appear as though there are only a few hundred crazy conservatives, they can build this image of a far Right “fringe” candidate.
However, when thousands of people are on the march, that dog won’t hunt. Then things could get extremely interesting. How free are we really to vote our choice for president without government interference?
Reagan was treated with the same ridicule. They weren’t laughing on January 20, 1981.
Walker/Cruz-Cruz/Walker have the capability of controlling the Executive branch for the next 16 years, utterly destroying the union movement and hunting down domestic communists in the Press, Government, and Academia like dogs.
Expect the domestic marxists and the corporate oligarchy to go to any means necessary to stop them.
This overwrought, idiot writer seems to have already descended into madness. I guess he has his idiot audience who is impressed with his overheated ranting.
madness is underrated
IIRC, PPP was 5 points off like 5 other outfits who didn’t see us taking back the Senate. Only the Des Moines Register had the right numbers, at the very last minute.
So.. I’d add 5 pts to Cruz and take 3 from Walker based on PPPs methodologies.
The left is frightened. They may have moved too extreme too fast and they know the rebound is coming
The Uniparty is peeing in their panties.
Pendulum swing. The left has been forcing them for 150 years now. Cruz will be the first guy to strip out their machinations, laws, EOs, mind-control over the masses, bureaucratic rule, etc.
“... impractical proposals like abolishing the IRS and repealing every single word of Obamacare.”
I’d tend to agree with you, C.Edmund Wright. But, as long as the right is content to allow characterizations such as this one, then we are, I fear, destined to take a continual drubbing from the middle and the left.
It’s a very good thing that our Founders didn’t succumb to the ‘impracticality’ of seeking freedom from Britain...
CRUZ TO VICTORY OR GET BUSHED!
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