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Cruz roundup: News polls with mixed results, biting his tongue on Rand
The Dallas Morning News' Trail Blazer Blog ^ | June 2, 2015 | Sylvan Lane

Posted on 06/02/2015 1:12:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. Ted Cruz is polling better against Hillary Clinton, but not against the people he’d need to beat to face her.

Cruz gained ground on the former secretary of state in a CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday trailing her 52 percent to 43 percent in a hypothetical 2016 match-up. The nine-point gap is a major improvement from the 24-point Cruz lost by in a mid-April poll.

But Cruz only gained one point on his primary competition in a poll of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents, inching from seven to eight points.

Clinton’s polling in favorability, trustworthiness and empathy also tanked, so this survey might stand as a better gauge of her prospects than Cruz’s....

(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Kentucky; Texas; Campaign News; Issues; Parties; Polls
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Here's betting the internal polls paint a very different picture. Why do I say that? You don't attack someone in "sixth place" and virtually ignore the other 1 thru 10 candidates. But that is exactly what is happening.
1 posted on 06/02/2015 1:12:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Its not a sprint.


2 posted on 06/02/2015 1:19:55 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great point!


3 posted on 06/02/2015 1:20:24 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz polls much better with conservatives which are the ones who actually vote in primaries.


4 posted on 06/02/2015 1:35:55 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We know who they fear!


5 posted on 06/02/2015 1:51:12 PM PDT by Lake Living
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz has been sort of quiet here lately, which might not be a bad thing for him, as the news lately has been full of extremely incendiary issues which, hopefully, will not the the main issues as we get closer to the debates. People will want to hear about how candidates propose to get the economy booming again and foster strong job growth. Who will reign in oppressive federal government intervention and over regulation of our lives. Who will finally give us a good national energy policy. Who will scale back or get rid of the Dept. of Education.


6 posted on 06/02/2015 1:58:12 PM PDT by mtrott
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m hoping the primaries blow the polling to pieces.


7 posted on 06/02/2015 2:32:18 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
conservatives which are the ones who actually vote in primaries

Couldn't possibly be so, or why would have have such pitiful nominees for so many office for so long now?

8 posted on 06/02/2015 2:34:37 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Theodore R.

Because every republican is a conservative at election time. Some of them severely so.


9 posted on 06/02/2015 2:47:35 PM PDT by ziravan (Choose Sides.)
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IMO when the debates begin Cruz will shine when the field get whittled a bit the contrast between Cruz and the others will become more pronounced.


10 posted on 06/02/2015 3:27:17 PM PDT by Leto
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s *critical* to lie to the pollsters: it unnerves them via self-doubt, forces them to hunt for internals they don’t want to read, and they then set up their targeting and smearing all wrong.

LIE to the pollsters! Everybody run to Santorum!


11 posted on 06/02/2015 3:36:19 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Theodore R.

“…why would have have such pitiful nominees for so many office for so long now?”

Open primaries?


12 posted on 06/02/2015 4:31:20 PM PDT by GlockLady
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Im betting on folks waking up and moving away from huckster,Santorum and Carson when it counts.


13 posted on 06/02/2015 5:49:13 PM PDT by rrrod (Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; ...
    Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

14 posted on 06/02/2015 9:19:02 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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Why do I say that? You don't attack someone in "sixth place" and virtually ignore the other 1 thru 10 candidates. But that is exactly what is happening.

Boy that is really the Truth!

2ndDivisionVet, VINL, and myself post a very small percentage of the articles about Ted Cruz on FreeRepublic, precisely because there is so much crap, out-and-out lies, and just plain evil crap being posted about him.

15 posted on 06/02/2015 9:28:02 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

And thank you poster guys for taking care of us, on the Cruz stories. I am sorry about the crap stories out there against Cruz. It is likely just the beginning. Two years more, roughly.

Cream rises though and you can’t defy gravity.


16 posted on 06/02/2015 9:41:02 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: mtrott

Cruz is doing fine IMO...as another poster said this is not a sprint....Media will say what they will all along to keep people engaged and to formulate the race as they want it to go.

I agree with your post regarding Cruz....and will add i give Cruz lots of room for how his campaign goes and what he states....HE will have to play middle ground on some issues...as he will need voters to win. But I trust when Cruz has the Presidency he will do what is good for this nation because he has one thing most don’t....he believes what he says.


17 posted on 06/02/2015 9:59:56 PM PDT by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

TPA, TPP, immigration waffler, Freedom Act supporter. Pass.


18 posted on 06/02/2015 10:08:16 PM PDT by z taxman
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To: z taxman

How’s the weather in Chicago? They still buying you people free deep dish pizza there at OFA?


19 posted on 06/02/2015 10:20:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Attack the messenger eh? Glad to see you’ve been reading up on your Alinsky. See, I can do it too.


20 posted on 06/02/2015 10:25:45 PM PDT by z taxman
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