Posted on 02/19/2016 3:11:59 AM PST by springwater13
Donald Trump is now leading Saturday's South Carolina Republican primary by 5 points — down from his 16-point lead in the state a month ago, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.
Trump gets support from 28 percent of likely Republican primary voters in the state, while Ted Cruz gets 23 percent. They're followed by Marco Rubio at 15 percent, Jeb Bush at 13 percent, and John Kasich and Ben Carson at 9 percent each.
Yes probably biased, but even with the bias they can’t make Cruz win!
Welcome to FR.
You know the poll is bogus the same way Trump knows; because it hurts your feelings.
SC is an open primary so “likely republican voters” doesn’t include likely democrat disrupters who will muck up the results. I suspect the SEIU and others will bus in votes for Kasich and/or other losers.
Rupert at it again.
Sorry, I think I believe the Emerson poll. They have been right two out of two, although even Emerson was low on Trump by 4 points.
If Bernie was closer I’d consider crossing over to make hay on their side, but I won’t. Last person I’d like to see truckloads of people voting for is Kasich. If they didn’t register in the last 30 days they can’t vote here.
only a few days to go before we find out if NBC/WSJ is a partisan hack pollster or telling the truth
Well, at least Rush Limbaugh will have another poll to talk about.
It seems odd that two big media icons like NBC and the WSJ would risk losing their credibility with poor polling the day before a primary.
Usually pollsters abandon their agendas and finally reflect the truth just in time before the actual elections themselves can expose their Leftist lies and biases.
So we will find out tomorrow whether the NBC/WSJ “outlier” is right or all the “others” are.
NBC/WSJ will have to get out of the polling business or the others will have to.
That “leaked” Bush campaign “internal poll” agreed with NBC/WSJ and Trump DID go all 9/11 Truther, Code Pink, Pro Abortion, Left Wing Crazy Hair Liberal Democrat during the last debate.
Trump continually shows his contempt for conservatives and I think it is hurting him.
USA = banana republic . The world laughs ...
One poll says his lead is large, another says it’s narrow.
The numbers are what they are, and we’ll know tomorrow evening. For now, there’s no point in obsessing about them.
Do you have a problem with this article being posted?
Well, how many times is it going to be posted?
Can be fixed though, don’t you agree?
Conservatives never give up on restoring America as Leftists never give up on destroying her.
Those in between are useless squishes—no good for good nor evil.
For your conspiracy to work, you have to enlist new players. NBC/Wall Street Journal is the media sponsor. They paid for the poll, but it was conducted by Marist College.
This pollster has a good reputation - fivethrityeight rates it as a B+, based upon its past predictive accuracy. The poll additionally has a sample of over 2,700.
But you can believe that the evil Rupert is still behind this, if that will stop the tears.
True. it’s all about the “expectations game” now.
Well, I think we already know the answer don’t we?
Their last NH poll undershot Trump’s final numbers by 5 and overshot Rubio’s numbers by 7.
Rupert is playing games.
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