After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.
Posted on 11/16/2015 9:04:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump has dramatically escalated his attacks on his nearest rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Ben Carson. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll may explain why: the billionaire real estate magnate is bleeding support among avid church-goers and women to the retired neurosurgeon.
While the unconstrained Trump has a comfortable double-digit lead over the soft-spoken Carson, the data points to a possible emerging threat to Trump's hopes of capturing the party's nomination for the November 2016 election.
The poll of likely Republican primary voters also shows that Carson is drawing strong support from the rural Midwest, including Iowa, which holds the first Republican nominating contest on Feb. 1. Trump, in contrast, is drawing strong support in the northeast and southeast.
That geographical divide is significant, analysts said, because Carson's dominance in more socially conservative states like Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska reflects how his story of personal redemption is resonating strongly with evangelical voters. They traditionally play an outsize role not just in the first nominating contest in Iowa on Feb. 1, but in Nevada and South Carolina, which also hold nominating votes in February.
"If Carson keeps his nose clean he could win those states and could catch lightning in a bottle," said Ford O'Connell, a Republican strategist not affiliated with either campaign.
Trump, who has topped national polls of likely Republican primary voters for months, has until now enjoyed strong support among the key constituency of low-income, blue-collar, church-going voters, who have been attracted by his image as a straight-talking political outsider.
But Carson's similar appeal as an outsider taking on the Republican establishment has undercut Trump's support in recent weeks, and Carson has surged to the top of a few recent national polls.
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Hey Trump! I’m not worried about Carson, I’m worried about Obama, Hillary, and Sanders!
Oh Please Hillary has already measured for drapes and hiring a painter for the White House
Why Carson, who has not laid out any systematic conservative positions?
The Colin Powell/Condeleeza Rice syndrome?
Oh Please Hillary has already measured for drapes and hiring a painter for the PRISON CELL...there, fixed it.
Carson is only a threat until people actually start watching him speak, then things go down hill fairly quickly. My wienerdog has more charisma than Carson and she has never tried to stab me or hit me in the head with a hammer.
Exactly! Attack them, not team players!
Trump goes after the nearest, most immediate threat, not someone who hasn’t yet come on the radar.
If Carson can’t handle Trump, how is he going to deal
with Hillary!?
Leave it to Yahoo to not only regurgitate last weeks “news” with a new headline, but to also justify it with old outlier polling to back it up.
Yawn.
I can understand why evangelicals would not like Trump. And believe me, in Iowa, most of them don’t.
But I don’t understand support for Carson. The guy and his positions are off a notch.
this is bullshit....... the most recent reuters poll has Trump surging..... Kooky-Carson had his 15 minutes
My wienerdog has more charisma than Carson and she has never tried to stab me or hit me in the head with a hammer
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Your wiener dog probably knows too that the pyramids weren’t built by Joseph to store grain.
I mean, that idea is right up there with congressman Hank Johnson’s theory of Guam tipping over.
Is this old news or rehashed news from last week. If so a lot has happened since then.
You can’t be redeemed if you weren’t bad to begin with. We are all sinners.
Lets hope the Trump trashing Carson episode is over now. The Donald has bigger fish to fry. To what just happened in Paris is right up Trump’s alley of attacking a target rich environment.
Once my wienerdog tried to hit me on the head with a hammer. It was not a pretty sight.
Yahoo/rooters still trying to prop up the loon carson.
“We are all sinners.”
Especially us wienerdogs.
After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.
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