Posted on 12/20/2015 7:27:14 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
It's Donald Trump in Illinois.
Trump, at 30 percent, is the top GOP presidential candidate in Illinois, according to a new poll, with double the points of Sens. Ted Cruz at 15 percent and Marco Rubio at 13 percent.
The billionaire real estate tycoon and reality show star, the national front-runner, polls first in Cook County, the collar counties of Lake, DuPage, Will, Kane and McHenry and in downstate Illinois, according to results shared with the Chicago Sun-Times.
GOP pollster Joe Caccitolo, who runs Compass Consulting, conducted the automated telephone survey of 2,104 likely Republican voters last Wednesday, the day after the fifth Republican debate in Las Vegas. More on the methodology below.
After Trump and the senators from Texas and Florida, in Illinois it's former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 7 percent; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 6 percent; Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 3 percent; former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at 2 percent.
Asked, "if the primary election for president was held today, for whom would you vote," 11 percent were undecided.
And while the entire field consists of other contenders not included in the poll -- South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham; former New York Gov. George Pataki; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum -- only 2 percent said their choice was for another candidate.
Caccitolo's polling snapshot comes three months before Illinois' March 15 primary and tracks the popularity of Trump in national polls as the crowded GOP field heads toward the first presidential vote in Iowa on Feb. 1.
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WHAT???
In times of existential crisis, the Nation may need to trump ideology with leadership.
No candidate is perfect, and Trump is far from, but your way of thinking is foolish.
How come there is no NY poll?
Probably Christie would win the NY poll but not Pataki. Maybe Trump too
HOORAY Trump
ROFLMAO! Nice work, mkjessup.
They probably don't know that the founders especially in the northern colonies didn't celebrate Christmas. In fact it was banned in a few states.
If you support single-payer healthcare, Planned Parenthood, no restrictions on abortion, and gun control, then Trump is your guy. Trump has favored all of these positions for many years,Links?
Ted Cruz is an admitted liar. Even if you agree with why he lied, he's still a liar.
Ted Cruz gave Obama/Kerry unconstitutional power to give Iran a nuclear bomb, $150 billion dollars AND promised protection from an attack by Israel when he signed Corker. Does that sound like something a right thinking self-proclaimed conservative "constitutionalist" would do...I don't think so either.
Liars can't be trusted no matter what they lied about.
The Combine here has no idea what’s about to hit them.
None. It’s going to be so much fun to watch.
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SWEET!
Here here...
Christmas as a holiday, was little more than a footnote to our founding fathers.
No need for insults. God bless.
Love it!
Trump does not have to be the perfect conservative. He need not be pure as wind driven snow powder.
What ge needs to be is perfectly unafraid to change how our government is being run. If he has the perfect courage and persistence to accomplish that, he is the right man for 2016.
My problem with Ted Cruz is his support for the cheap labor express. That hurts my middle class family more than any other issue right now. American middle class wages have degenerated due to invasion of cheap foreign labor.
Cruz pushing legalization of illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CwVrfydjOI&feature=youtu.be
Cruz pushing for 500% expansion of H1-B visa’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlGlNwsQb0
Cruz pushing TPP:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/11/ted-cruz-channels-paul-ryan-a-lot-of-misinformation-on-obamatrade-that-you-can-get-on-the-internet/
The Founding Fathers were inspired by the Eternal Word of God. This is a Christian (and Jewish) Republic. Exterminate islam...totally!
Thank you. All facets of islam and atheism must be abolished. BACK TO THE BIBLE! Go Trump go!
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