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Debate Backfires On Fox News As Crazies Trump, Cruz, and Carson Rise to Top 3 In New Poll
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| August 9, 2015
| Jason Easley
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
✔ @ianbremmer
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.
TOPICS: Texas; Campaign News; Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: 2016debates; 2016election; 2016polls; bush; cruz; election2016; tedcruz; texas; trump
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To: Isara
Did you see that they ranked Rand Paul almost equal to Ted Cruz?
Scorecdard
That site is wrong on the budget, debt and trade. I bet it's probably a libertarian site than a true conservative site. But hey, most GOP candidates don't understand the trade issues either. Only Trump does.
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posted on
08/09/2015 1:01:48 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/09/2015 1:02:05 PM PDT
by
bgill
( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Isara
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posted on
08/09/2015 1:07:32 PM PDT
by
amihow
To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Really? You get why Cruz could be considered “lunatic fringe”?
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posted on
08/09/2015 1:11:55 PM PDT
by
ElayneJ
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bush is cratering even though Laura Inghram said he won the debate. How can that be?
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posted on
08/09/2015 1:14:06 PM PDT
by
bray
(Cruz to the White House)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
WOW that should cause lot of heart burn inside GOPe.
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posted on
08/09/2015 1:15:53 PM PDT
by
entropy12
(We need a president who says "you are fired", not the professional politician puppets of rich donors)
To: ElayneJ
He’s not Marxist enough for the establishment GOP.
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posted on
08/09/2015 1:17:03 PM PDT
by
bray
(Cruz to the White House)
To: certrtwngnut
Actually, “Lunatic Fringe” was by Red Ryder..
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posted on
08/09/2015 1:17:45 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Certified Islamophobe and Microaggressor..)
To: DannyTN
That site is wrong on the budget, debt and trade. I bet it's probably a libertarian site than a true conservative site. But hey, most GOP candidates don't understand the trade issues either. Only Trump does. Most of what you say is true. But Trump needs to spend a little time with some good Milton Friedman YouTube videos. Sometimes the obvious truth is not actually very close to the truth no matter how good it sounds.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
our three favorites too
good news
Keep smearing Murdoch, his paid minnows, RNC
, Jeb , Walker a
since it helps
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posted on
08/09/2015 1:34:27 PM PDT
by
ncalburt
( Amnesty-media out in full force)
To: DannyTN
Did you see that they ranked Rand Paul almost equal to Ted Cruz?Paul got 5 yellow (mixed) dots out of 11 issues, while Cruz got only one yellow and the rest of his dots are green (good).
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posted on
08/09/2015 1:42:42 PM PDT
by
Isara
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey, this commie web site has it all figgered out!
To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
I’d love to see Mrs. Carson. I only saw
Dr. Carson speak for the first time on the so-called debate and was blown away. If it is true that there is a great woman behind every great man, she must be true “first lady material”!!!
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posted on
08/09/2015 2:15:20 PM PDT
by
kiltie65
To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
But Carson?Yeah, that jumped out at me, too.
To: kiltie65
She is
Watch the movie Healing Hands
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posted on
08/09/2015 3:10:57 PM PDT
by
Donnafrflorida
(Thru HnodredscottIM all things are possible.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Kelly: "Guys, we're in trouble! Mr. Murdoch says we got the exact opposite results from what he wanted for Thursday's debates!"
Wallace: "Who's this 'We'? It's all your fault, Megyn! You totally made up that debate question! And now it's blown up in your face!"
Kelly: "Oh, shut up, Chris! You and your stupid 'doozies' comment!"
Wallace: "Well, 'doozies' was a damned sight better than asking Cruz - a so-called devout Baptist - if he'd had any word from God, Megyn! Geez! Of all the stupid things to ask him!"
Baier [thinking] "Why did I have to get stuck with these two idiots? No bonus this year!"
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posted on
08/09/2015 3:15:20 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Cruz / Carson would be a strong ticket.....
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posted on
08/09/2015 3:18:45 PM PDT
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lunatic fringe = outspoken Christians.
To: ElayneJ
You misunderstood me. See my other posts
To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Oh - Sorry! I thought you were supporting the idea that Ted Cruz was acting like a fanatical nut. :)
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posted on
08/09/2015 5:07:26 PM PDT
by
ElayneJ
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