Posted on 08/09/2015 11:51:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An NBC News poll taken after the Republican debate revealed some bad news for Fox News. All of their favorite establishment candidates lost support while the lunatic fringe led by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson rose to the top three positions.
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The new Republican top seven are:
ian bremmer
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Post-Debate Poll (NBC) Trump 23% Cruz 13% Carson 11% Fiorina 8% Rubio 8% Bush 7% Walker 7%
That's quite a 1, 2, 3...
10:07 AM - 9 Aug 2015
Marco Rubio was the only Fox News favored candidate to remain in the top 5, and he had one-third the amount of support of Donald Trump. Fiorina wasn’t even invited to the main debate, but her performance in the early debate vaulted her into the top five.
What is most telling is that the top three slots are being occupied by candidates who have no chance in a general election. Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson are the kind of candidates that Republican voters adore, but who would get crushed in November. Fox News was especially gentle with Rubio, Bush, and Walker. Rubio maintained his position of single-digit support among voters while Bush and Walker lost support.
The intention behind the Fox News debate was to build up the “electable” Republican candidates while getting rid of Donald Trump and ignoring the other fringe campaigns. Fox News failed on both counts. Instead of rallying their troops behind someone who could win, Fox gave momentum to the far right.
Donald Trump’s post debate support is about the same as it was before the Megyn Kelly fiasco. If the goal was to get rid of Trump, the numbers from NBC’s scientific Internet survey indicate that they didn’t get the job done. Bush and Walker were like oatmeal and cream of wheat on the debate stage. Dull doesn’t even begin to describe their lackluster performances, so it is no surprise they were not a hit with viewers.
Fox News might have helped the Republican Party lose the election by trying to pick the nominee for voters. Fox may guide the Republican Party, but the inmates are running the asylum.
GO CRAZIES!!!!
Great song.
lol @ crazies. #crazies #istandwithcrazies
This is getting good.
Heh heh, he should play Alice Cooper’s “Only Women Bleed.” ;)
It appears these extremist commie libs see nothing but bad days ahead for their crazy *****, Mrs. Slick Willie.
All criticisms of Cruz and Carson are racist. Just remember that.
Thank you. I am getting old.
Trump, Cruz and Carson are the kinds of candidates that get crushed in November? Riiiggghhhttt, because the RINO candidates Dole, McCain and Romney did so well in their respective Novembers.
The left and GOPe are very afraid.
Yeah, I remember that insurgent candidate in 1976 and 1980 who had no chance in the general election.
How do these eight balls come to such conclusions fifteen months before voting day?
Bush didn’t make it into the top five! Talk about backfire.
May I suggest that these morons compare Trump's wealth to Hillary's, Cruz's legal qualifications to Elizabeth Warren's, and Ben Carson's intellect to Obama's?
Laugh riot.
And that was a huge win for Trump. The big gains by Cruz, Carson, and Fiorino were all at the expense of other candidates, not a Trump's expense.
I believe the home folks really like someone skillfully hoisting a finger in the faces of the gopes and the press, gope and lefty. Trump does that very well.Carson and Cruz come off as knowledgeable as hell and principled to boot. All of this should be liabilities in the minds of the Establishment folk, gope and left. I hope they don’t learn.
They call the extremely intelligent Carsen “crazy” because to the racist Left, Blacks are supposed to be uneducated welfare hustlers who vote for Free Stuff. As in the old USSR, anyone who doesn’t conform to the Left’s statist world view is labeled “insane.” Our Leftists haven’t started to lock dissidents up in insane asylums....yet.
They see Carson as a sell out Uncle Tom. Remember Clarence Thomas?
I’m going to lay the blame for Trump’s rise in the political arena at the feet of McConnell and Boenher, who once elected, gave we the people the middle finger. Fool us once, shame on you - fool us twice - shame on us!
Exactly. Poor old Rand Paul.
LOL....Bush just does not have the “IT FACTOR”.....poor thing.
I didn’t say that wasn’t in Cruz— I’m saying there is literally nothing in Carson’s laid back style and professionalism that can evoke “insanity.”
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