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Reuters national online tracking poll of likely GOP voters: Carson 33, Trump 26, Rubio 10, Cruz 8
Hot Air ^ | 10/27/15 | Allahpundit

Posted on 10/28/2015 10:57:46 AM PDT by BigEdLB

I know what you’re going to say. It’s an online poll. The sample is small, just 277 Republican voters. That means a margin of error north of six percent. Why should we trust a poll like that?

Well, you should trust it if you trusted it back in August when this same poll pronounced Trump’s lead sturdy after the first GOP presidential debate. That was an online poll too. Sample size: 278 Republicans, for an MOE of 6.7 percent. A lot of Trump fans at the time declared that de facto proof that the best laid plans of Fox News and Megyn Kelly to sink the unsinkable Trump had failed miserably

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To: BigEdLB

But we have to admit that Carson maybe slighly gaining on Trump? Why? I just don’t understand the American public.


21 posted on 10/28/2015 11:55:51 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
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To: BlueNgold

Same here. Furthermore, I could go down the street to the marina right now and within 5 minutes find someone that has never heard of Carson. Not possible with Trump.


22 posted on 10/28/2015 11:56:27 AM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: BigEdLB

This is the pushback coming from the establishment to upend Trump using rigged polls.


23 posted on 10/28/2015 11:57:03 AM PDT by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: VanDeKoik

Maybe that’s the real reason Carson has suspended his campaign...to try and quickly brush up on economics.

Well, I guess selling books is, in a way, learning about economics.


24 posted on 10/28/2015 11:59:09 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: BlueNgold

The fix is in like clockwork: have either Rubio or Carson by the GOPe ,

then intentionally lose to Hitlery.


25 posted on 10/28/2015 12:04:59 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: BlueCat

You nailed it. Carson does not move the needle. To win a popularity contest, which is essentially what the Presidential campaign becomes two days before the general election, YOU MUST MOVE THE NEEDLE.


26 posted on 10/28/2015 12:05:13 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: BlueNgold

I don’t know of one either. Rove is spending money for certain : )


27 posted on 10/28/2015 12:10:39 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: BigEdLB

Only gentle Ben can beat Jeb, LOL


28 posted on 10/28/2015 12:11:54 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Donald Trump : 'It will be wonderful. It will be glorious., You will be amazed, Just wait"')
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To: BigEdLB

If people pick this guy as our nominee the libtards can have our country. It will be the same old open borders,gun grabbing, get whitey horseshit for four more years. The nation as we know it is probably done already anyhow. The only one that I think could even have a chance to radically change things was Trump because he is beholden to no one and is an alpha male. If the idiots want Carson, let them burn with the rest of the nation. Im really tired of idiots really tired of them. I just wish they were another decent place on planet earth to go.


29 posted on 10/28/2015 12:11:55 PM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: BlueNgold

These polls are being contrived for a narative. They are false.
A sample set of 279 people is NATIONAL poll ( That is not even 6 people per state).What a knee slapping belly laugh joke!!
Any poll that measures anything but individuals intending to vote in a republican primary or intending to attent and vote in a republican caucue is TOTALLY WORTHLESS!!
Carson is not a viable contender. He doen’t have a clue. This is the “Wilder Effect” if it is not totally made up!!


30 posted on 10/28/2015 12:14:04 PM PDT by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: BigEdLB

This may change after this budget fiasco. I’m pretty sick of all of them. Someone needs to shake it up and Carson is not the man we need right now. - He’s A good man, but not THE man for the job right now. And I’m an evangelical!


31 posted on 10/28/2015 12:18:23 PM PDT by italyconservative (If we elect a milk-toasted GOPe, we will be left with out the milk!)
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To: odawg
I just polled myself. Trump won. Case closed.

margin of error = 1 ?
;o)

32 posted on 10/28/2015 12:21:29 PM PDT by glock rocks (I don't always talk to liberals, but when I do, I order the large fries.)
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To: BigEdLB

Aw Jeez.

33 posted on 10/28/2015 12:27:01 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Agree. Moving the needle is critical; Carson doesn’t have what it takes. Love the guy but he doesn’t have the ummph to get past the finish line.


34 posted on 10/28/2015 12:44:28 PM PDT by BlueCat
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To: WENDLE
Any poll that measures anything but individuals intending to vote in a republican primary or intending to attent and vote in a republican caucue is TOTALLY WORTHLESS!!

This one claims to do that. It claims 279 republican voters likely to vote in the primary. But 279 IS awful small.

IMHO, the best polls would be if they polled, say, the first 20 states to go to primaries. Then assigned "delegates" accordingly. Your true frontrunner would be the one with the highest "delegate" count.
35 posted on 10/28/2015 12:44:34 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: BlueNgold
I don’t know one, much less 1 in 3, pubs supporting Dr. Carson

I know a few. In my church there's a lot of support for Trump and Cruz but there's also a couple of folks...just a couple...who support Carson.

36 posted on 10/28/2015 12:46:28 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: BlueNgold
I don’t know one, much less 1 in 3, pubs supporting Dr. Carson

I know a few. In my church there's a lot of support for Trump and Cruz but there's also a couple of folks...just a couple...who support Carson.

37 posted on 10/28/2015 12:46:41 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: BlueNgold

I have been saying all along.

There are no Carson supporters.

Only Trump supporters that either dont want to admit to pollsters they are Trump supporters or who are not quite sure they want to support Trump because of all the nasty things the media is saying about him, but dont really like any of the alternatives, so Carson is a safe place to park while they make up their minds.


38 posted on 10/28/2015 12:50:33 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: BigEdLB
I guess that story of Trump doing something dastardly I missed.

If you assume that the polls are correct (a big if?) and there is some movement for Carson you have to wonder why that is. Carson hasn't said or done anything recently to justify movement in his direction. He's been on a book tour! That leaves you wondering what Trump may have done to turn voters off. The only thing I can think of is that these polls are showing some blowback from his 9-11 comments. Especially since they've been characterized as 'Truther' comments, which they certainly are not. If there is movement I think it's temporary and Trump has plenty of time to recover.

39 posted on 10/28/2015 12:52:36 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: BigEdLB

what is it with all this small B/S polls about the gun grabbing, social justice, black lives matter, open borders Carson winning. Yes I know the polls in the last two days are B/S , but surely people have or must have woken up by now that the polls have been skewed for years and the media, the establishment, the media,and the Chamber of commerce will do anything to take down anyone who opposes them.


40 posted on 10/28/2015 12:54:48 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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