Posted on 01/17/2016 3:19:59 PM PST by kik5150
Ted Cruz has reached top-rank popularity among Republicans and Chris Christieâs favorability rating is most improved in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, while Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Jeb Bush all have stumbled in the battle for GOP hearts and minds.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton continues to far surpass Bernie Sanders in favorability among party regulars, and sheâs vastly more popular within the Democratic Party than are any of the Republican candidates within the GOP base. Still, gender and racial gaps mark Clintonâs standings, and Sanders pushes back among young adults, independents and the better-off.
Movement is greatest among Republicans. Trumpâs favorability rating within the GOP has dropped by 12 percentage points, from a high of 69 percent in November to 57 percent now; the decline has occurred almost exclusively among Republican women. Cruz, +7 points to 60 percent favorable, is +13 points among strong conservatives overall, a core GOP group; 76 percent now rate him favorably.
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Popularity? And yet Cruz is still way behind Trump all the polls? How can that be? Maybe they like Cruz but realize as a Canadian he isnât eligible to be president.
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Cruz is out of it. Trump needs to chill...he will be the GOP nominee.
Why? All those poor New Yorkers with hurt feelings? lol. Trump can have the RINOs in new York. Cruz will take the test of America. Bye bye!
I think it’s important when you consider that a whopping 46% of Republicans don’t have either Trump or Cruz as their candidate. When others start dropping out, the favorability of second choice candidates will be most important, as well as the endorsements by these former candidates.
AH............abc hopeful, how heart warming
The whopping 46% is still spread among four or five candidates, then others who have one or two percent each. Some of that 46% will go to Trump and Cruz, and these popularity polls change faster than polls that measure who people intend to vote for.
If he’s not careful, Trump is going to stumble all the way to 41%.
“My guess is Cruzâs favorability will drop.”
It did. By 6 points:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3384406/posts?page=14
Or maybe his 8 years in the spotlight.
Oh, then we’re wrong? You’re not all stupid? But isn’t it ‘stupid is as stupid does?’
I wouldn’t think of trying to mislead Freepers. It’s an exercise in futility because we all already know everything.
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