Oh please!!! And no sooner than if Ted were to take over as the front runner the MSM and fav publications where the GOPe goes to leak would be publishing the SAME crap about Ted being “unelectable.” I am sick of this tripe being used against any candidate not a GOPe handpicked choice (cough JEB!) to try to short circuit the democratic primary process.
Both Trump and Cruz are imminently electable because they have the spirit and courage for the fight ahead. In contrast, Christie and Jeb! and likely Rubio will run a knee pad campaign apologizing for existing in a way that doesn’t meet with the media’s approval. “We are sorry we are suck arse scum, please like us cause we said we are sorry!! Oh and vote for us!! We promise safe zones for all and not to take your free stuff away.”
If these “electable” candidates can’t beat Trump among Republicans, why would one think they would do better than Trump in the general election.
This makes absolutely no sense.
See post 51 in this thread.
Says elect-ability is the easiest part of a poll to skew and explains why.
They're not the same polls.
The GOPe, Democrats and leftists all want Trump stopped. That covers the biases of almost all pollsters. At the same time all pollsters must maintain their reputation for accuracy. If they published a poll about Iowa today and had Jeb at 40% and he got 2% at the Iowa caucus they'd never live it down. But they can publish whatever they want about the general election eleven months from now because come election day no one will remember, and if anyone does they can claim the situation changed, which it will.
That's why polls about the next few contests usually have some grounding in reality and hypothetical matchups in November (most of which will never be tested in an actual election) can be made up out of whole cloth.