Posted on 01/24/2016 7:33:38 AM PST by jimbo123
Just over a week before the first votes are cast in the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump has regained his lead over Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the state of Iowa. Trump now holds a 5-point lead over the Texas Republican, with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio lagging far behind in third place.
In New Hampshire, the race remains unchanged at the top, with Trump holding a commanding double-digit lead over his two closest-but-still-distant rivals Cruz and Rubio, who are locked in a tight battle for second place. Further down, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has edged past New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie into fourth place.
Looking ahead to South Carolina, Trump continues to hold a double-digit lead over Cruz, his closest competitor in that state.
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Yeb! at 1% !!!!!!!
Love it!
Can’t wait for him to be at 0%
Trump, Cruz, Rubio. 1,2,3 in all 3 early battleground primary states. Gentleman, start your engines. We have a race here.
That may well be true, he ONE SMART political cookie!
All that matters right now is IOWA, this is better news for Cruz than Fox or CNN, dont forget 2 polls out with CNN the other day that has Cruz up 3 and Trump up 1.
CNN John King said the hardest thing is how do pollsters judge/guess turnout, so he was cautioning people on their 11 point lead for Trump
Broken record here, but they also asked another way within same poll that showed Cruz up by 2.
MSM wants to take Cruz down also.
Whatabout people supporting other candidates in IOWA that are not big on Trump? Will they switch to Cruz ?
The 4 GOP-establishment candidates have a whopping 17%. Combined.
Rubes 13%
Christie 1%
Bush 1%
Kasich 1%
And the talking heads at FOX et al STILL don’t get why we are so pissed off and angry at the Bushies GOP-E!
Since Huckabee and Santorum were next to last in polls in 2008 and 2012 and yet finished first in caucus, I doubt Carson or Rubio will step aside before hand. Why should they?
The Republican Caucus holds a secret ballot. The Democrat Caucus makes people stand at posts or corners for their candidate. Caucusgoers could easily be subject to jerkiness/harassment/obnoxiousness as people are called out to join the group with the most viable candidate.
Don’t take all I’m saying as gospel as I’m not that up on the system but my understanding.
Remember the gop and democrat are two different events.
There are some 1861 precincts covering the 99 counties. The locals gather at their precinct
at 7pm local time and begin the process. They can voice support for their candidate or not
and finally a vote is taken. I’m not sure if this is winner take all or proportional. After
the precinct level the process moves to the county level and begins anew. After that one they
move the congressional district level for the next process. Then comes the final selection at
the state level shortly before the GOP Convention in mid year.
The Rubio team strategery is to finish 3rd in Iowa, 2nd in NH, and first in SC. Clearly they are all in for SC as they pulled all their advertising in Iowa and NH and are focusing on SC.
No way he’s overtaking Trump in SC, so we will see.
So who drops out next and when? Huck has already stated he’s done after Iowa if he doesn’t finish in the top 4.
I say Gilmore, Huck, Santorum and iCarly leave the stage soon.
Becks endorsement will hurt Cruz with sane voters, especially since
said he would vote for Bernie over Trump.
This will not turn out well for Cruz.
Go Jeb!
Haha. Not.
7.2% MOE - what is point?
the point is.... it’s probably closer to 46 - 27
I doubt it. Both will be looking for jobs in a Trump administration.
#6 Lol! You are killing me - hahahahaaa!
You can say that again .. again .. again .. again ...
Thanks for the ping. :)
They, and their supporters, should all be happy with a virtual tie.
They might have switched before Beck got involved.
Beck is now out saying he would vote for Bernie over Trump.
The man is a fruit cake. Iowa voters will switch alright.
Switch away from Cruz. Polls are already showing downward movement
for Cruz. Fruitcake Beck won’t help.
That’s a huge margin of error.
“7.2% MOE - what is point?”
I noticed that too. Small sample?
Also Iowa voter participation in the 2012 caucuses was 6.5%. How does that tell us anything? NH was 31%.
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