Posted on 02/15/2016 4:40:12 PM PST by Kazan
Donald J. Trump continues to lead the Republican primary field in South Carolina. He’s also the candidate the highest number of voters would want to be stuck in an elevator with.
Ben Carson, meanwhile, is widely considered a good person to loan your car to, even among supporters of other candidates.
An automated telephone poll of 416 voters conducted exclusively for Free Times by Crantford Research attempts to tease out some key electoral forces as the state heads into its Feb. 20 GOP primary. It was the first poll conducted since the Feb. 13 GOP debate in Greenville.
Asked who they plan to vote for, 32 percent of respondents in our poll chose Trump. Ted Cruz was at 16 percent, Marco Rubio at 13 percent, Jeb Bush at 12 percent, John Kasich at 9 percent, and Ben Carson at 4 percent. Fourteen percent were undecided.
Our results confirm other polls that show Trump with a double-digit lead.
Crantford Research conducted the Free Times South Carolina GOP Presidential Preference Survey on Feb. 14, 2016. The survey was conducted by telephone using an automatic dialing and phone pad response data collection method. The margin of error for the results of the survey is +/- 4.8 percent.
Voting for Trump may be like giving the system (and by extension, the country) the middle finger. It may feel good, but we also have to live with the consequences for 4 years.
And noone could ever claim to know what Trump might do in 4 years. If people can’t recognize the complete and utter bullshit—or worse, they choose to ignore it—I can only conclude that I’m no longer part of the base, conservative or otherwise.
I can only conclude that Trump supporters are duped the same as Obama supporters were in 2008. I can’t see the rationality in it.
Of the people running for the nomination, I literally would have chosen any of them at random in favor of Trump.
Okay. I give. You win. You are insane.
Wow, that is how most exchanges with ‘The Face of God’ cultists ends.
Personal attacks.
That’s what scares me about Trump. I don’t believe he has any adherence to anything; except maybe himself, but even that’s up for negotiation.
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When the choices are Trump, and a bunch of politicians who will definitely NOT do any better and will probably somehow manage to make things worse, I would personally take the wild card Trump.
In the case of Cruz, he has shown himself to be... compromised, in my opinion. If he got into office, I’m not sure he’d do the right thing either, just like Trump.
The difference is that if Trump is being truthful, he’s shown himself to have the willpower and the determination to get done what he wants to get done. Whereas I am not yet convinced that Cruz has that willpower.
... “As far as I’m concerned, they’re in default of their pledge” ....
“The “pledge†in question is the one Trump signed last year agreeing not to run as a third-party candidate. In exchange, however, the Party agreed to a level playing field.
Gee, here in Mi we had a “select” couple of Tea Partiers” who lost their jobs for “getting IT on”! ;-)
How has Trump got done what he wants to get done, other than by litigation or greasing the palms of politicians?
Trump may be an excellent business negotiator but politics, which is about power more than money, does not operate according to the same rules.
If Obama’s term should teach us anything, it’s that we should fear a tyrant.
My exact sentiments as well. There is something very fake about Cruz's persona.
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