Posted on 09/27/2015 11:13:22 AM PDT by VinL
Ben Carson has surged into a statistical dead heat with Donald Trump in the race for the 2016 GOP nomination, a new poll shows.
According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday, Trump still leads the race, with the support of 21% of Republican primary voters across the U.S., but Carson follows with 20% — well within the poll’s 6-percentage-point margin of error.
Just weeks ago, Trump was still the clear front-runner but Carson has been steadily gaining on him since Trump’s average performance in the second Republican debate earlier this month.
And just one month ago, in the July NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Carson attracted only 10% support, compared with Trump’s 19%.
In the latest poll, former tech exec Carly Fiorina and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio tied for third, both getting 11% support, while former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush came in fourth with 7%.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz followed with 6% and 5%, respectively, while no other candidate received more than 3% support.
Meanwhile, NBC/Wall Street Journal polling of the Democratic candidates, also released Sunday, showed their race for the nomination tightening too.
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The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Sept. 20-24 of 256 Democratic voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 6.1 percentage points) and 230 GOP primary voters (plus-minus 6.5 percentage points). The rest of the poll will be released Monday.
Yep, garbage poll.
What was that about nice guys finishing last?? Also I am reminded of good advice I got when young, “Never make any unnecessary enemies.”
That exact phrase leaps to mind constantly, of late.
[and No More Mr Nice Guy]
B.S.
That averages out to 4.035087719 per each of the 57 states, if they actually polled outside of 30 Rock.
Correct, he is no leader. Surgeon general is what he is suited for.
Total BS. The Elitists planned to push Carson before Labor Day, to siphon off Trump support. Carson isn’t up to the task of the Presidency, but the Elitists know that.
And Snarly FioRINO is pure Establishment, minus the Planned Abortionhood policy.
When Cruz passes Bush...
Trump's conservatism or lack thereof is at the end of the day irrelevant. He's not here to be a conservative. He's here to be The Hulk! And The Hulk does one thing - SMASH! He's here to smash the GOP establishment's little playhouse to smithereens. No other candidate has the potential to wreck the infrastructure that the GOPe has carefully constructed to guarantee that their golden child receives the fundraising/media coverage/state support/delegate count that secures them GOP nomination quick, fast and in a hurry. Trump and Trump alone rips all that to shreds.
Trump's candidacy is not prevailing against a headwind of opposition. It's being carried along by a tailwind of support. And what's amusing is watching the GOPe try to insert these other characters into his tailwind as though its theirs, and that includes (insert favorite name here). The reason he has so much support is that he doesn't have his hand out waiting for others to fill it with cash. Everyone see this and knows this. While others proclaim to be their own man and are not beholden to big moneyed interests, Trump is actually that guy! Every other candidate running is holding his wallet open waiting for others to fill it while trying to convince us that this isn't happening and that includes Ted Cruz. Not The Donald. All of America sees this and loves it because we are sick and tired of having our intelligence insulted! At least with President Donald we won't have a POTUS who dashes off to fundraisers while Iran is starting a shooting war with Israel.
If Trump ends up with the nomination in spite of all that is arrayed against him and selects Cruz as a running mate, that, for me, would burnish a whole lot of conservative bonafides. Would it for you?
By the way, your tagline rocks.
NBC pollsters just can’t bring themselves to put down the pipe...
This is Yuuuuuuge! Huge BS that is.
“The EFFIN RETARDS that put this poll out would do well to remember how things turned out for Goebbels and his family.”
That was a time when there was a little decency and justice left in the world. Now “the effin retards” are looking at how things worked out for Obama and his family.
Very smart fellow, he saw that in 1928
My point is this...why would it even matter what numbers they claimed they used. It`s not illegal to put out phony polls, nobody goes to jail or anything
Some think that its outrageous of me to even suggest that a pollster would outright lie
They wanted a poll that showed Trump fading, and they were going to get it.
I dont trust any polls, they all now cant get past their personal politics when it comes to CRUNCH time, this is CRUNCH time now`
just a side note...Chuck Todd said a number of years ago that he has on occasion worded some of the poll questions, I heard him say that.
Todd says that WSJ/NBC news is the gold standard
The only thing this poll says definatively is that people are sick of lying incumbent career politicians.
You have to stand up to people in life. Leaders never accept being trashed. They respond and produce.
I am pretty sure it was on FR but can’t find it.
Obvious what their intentions are here....the pathetic thing here is that it may have impact opinions on the 40MM republicans.
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