Posted on 09/27/2015 6:32:44 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Rumors of Donald Trump’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
Ever since rival Carly Fiorina was widely perceived to have bested Trump at the second GOP debate in California on Sept. 16, media outlets have been lining up to suggest that the front-runner is waning.
Trump has hit back with characteristic vigor. But he has a point, independent observers say.
“The reality is that he does have a hold on some people and he doesn’t appear to be surrendering it,” said Mark Mellman, a veteran Democratic pollster who is also a columnist for The Hill.
Much of the negative media attention has been built around a single poll in the immediate aftermath of the debate, by CNN/ORC.
The survey showed the businessman’s support among Republican voters nationwide had declined by 8 percentage points since the last survey from the same source, less than two weeks before.
That was a sizable decline, to be sure — even though Trump still led his closest rival by 9 percentage points. But no other reputable poll since the debate has shown Trump falling by anything like that margin.
A survey from Fox News released earlier this week showed the businessman at 26 percent support nationally, an increase of 1 point since Fox’s last survey in mid-August. A Bloomberg poll gave him 21 percent — good enough for a 5-point lead over the field and an unchanged rating since the last poll from the financial news outlet at the beginning of August.
The picture is not substantially different in the crucial early states — and, in some cases, it is even better for Trump.
The Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) released a new survey from Iowa this week in which Trump polled at 24 percent — a 5-point rise
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Trump is living rent-free in the Establishment’s head.
This is the new "unexpected".
Trump seems to have experienced a "campaign-ending setback" on a weekly basis for past 5 or 6 months. And yet he is far ahead of all rivals in the polls.
Oh well, perhaps next week's campaign-ending setback will have the result the media is pushing for.
Trump is peaking, this I know, cause the Bushies tell me so.
Win Trump Win!
If he’s getting “thumped” by the Lame Stream Media, he must be doing something right. Roll on, Trump....ya got em crappin’ in their britches.
https://trumpgasm.wordpress.com/
Finally some truth. Read the above on the Bradley Effect.
“The Bradley Effect is a phenomenon that occurs because many people are afraid to give a LIVE pollster a true answer, when the answer is CONTROVERSIAL.
The Bradley Effect is NOT only about race, (if you think it is, you’re missing the point.) Instead, the phenomenon occurs ANY time an election with a controversial figure or topic is discussed.”
No kidding.
How many times has Trump’s obituary been written after some media-invented ‘gaff’. . . ?
Each time he never ‘dies,’ he only gets stronger.
didn’t Obi Won say something like that?
You’re late their skippy!
Trumping is no longer ‘peaking’ he ith now ‘waning’.
So sayeth those in the NO.
The more establishment pols, the legacy media and the leftist/one-worlders are in a foaming-at-the-mouth frenzy to push Trump out, the more support he will see from constitutionalists and other patriots.
“Rumors of Donald Trump’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated.”
That’s the talking heads of the media, it seems.
I know it’s their game to knock out Trump who obviously offends them and he in return gives it right back at them. Love it!
What is amazing to me is that conservatives continue to subsidize Faux, Pmsnbc and all the rest when they pay their cable bill. Cut the cord, the lamestream media dies.
As for OANN, you can stream it for FREE via YIPTV.
I know these “polls” are of alleged GOP voters. I wonder if anyone has taken a poll of registered dem and independent voters asking this question: among the GOP candidates, if you had to vote for one of them, which would it be. My sense is Trump would garner a good number of independent and some dem voters, especially those who feel they have been betrayed by the national parties on immigration, trade and financial issues.
TTTT
The article purport the media to be the deciding factor in elections versus journalists that merely record and report the facts.
Screw the media! We the People are what matters, not them!
... no other reputable poll since the debate has shown Trump falling by anything like that margin ...
I repeat this, because it bears repeating.
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