Except there are 100s of polls showing Trump winning big time over the rest, but this Bloomberg/Register “somehow” has Iowa 15% to 20% under Trump’s national average, and while a CNN/ORC poll only released a few days ago has Trump 13% over Cruz. And sometimes the biggest crowds month after month this early many months before the primaries really means he is winning.
I have no doubt that Trump is extraordinarily popular, and I also agree that he has struck a nerve with the American people, including with me, personally. I like the guy and he has been a huge plus in moving the political debate toward issues that actually have meaning for me like coddling folks who are criminal by definition and who came come uninvited into our American House, and calling out the Muslim masses for their cowardly acquiescence to terror in their name, etc., instead of the usual political crap. All good.
Still I like another guy better, and have since before Trump came on the scene. One of these two is sure to win the Iowa Caucuses, I have my preference but I would be content either way.
I have noticed that many of the Trump followers are rabid, however. They are impolite, crude, abusive, and often dishonest about policy matters. I hope that if Trump loses in Iowa, as I think he probably will, that their vitriol will be held in check. Right now, I’d have to say that Trump’s rabid followers are his greatest liability, and that if this worsens they could sink him.