“Polls in October 2016 do matter, though they are not totally accurate as we saw last November. But polls in June 2015 in a 16-way primary race where the candidates range from less than 1% to 11% is largely insignificant — particularly a national poll.”
I totally agree with that. It’s still too early to get much of read on any particular candidate as none of them have even really started to trend one way or another yet.
If you go back and read my posts this got started because I said I think Ted may have doomed himself with this statement. He’s going to need some voters out of the middle.
I admire his standing on his principles. I just don’t think he’s going to have the support to pull it off given that his own party is not Pro Ted.
Some Friends here obviously got butt hurt because I wouldn’t agree with them that Ted has a lock on it.
“If you go back and read my posts this got started because I said I think Ted may have doomed himself with this statement.”
Okay I see what you’re saying — if he’d actually said what Politico said he said. In reading the story, I saw no specific instruction to anyone to ignore the ruling, what I saw was an explanation of the law and possible options states had.
I don’t know if it was the best line of attack in the wake of the ruling. I thought he would focus more on pushing a constitutional amendment to allow states to decide (which he has also done) and push for more laws protecting religious liberty for pastors and Christian businesspeople. Going forward, if he fights the battle on that terrain, I think it’s a winning issue for him.