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.
No worries...its confusing enough when Trump supporters are posting poll results favorable to Cruz and Cruz supporters are objecting.
What I would do is watch how the candidates behave today and tomorrow. They all have internal polls that are better than these. If Trump starts massively attacking Cruz this poll is probably accurate. Same with Cruz attacking Rubio (means Rubio is closer)
Just as an FYI this was close to the final spread in Iowa and we fondly remember how that turned out.
LOL!!
These polls are all over the place today. I only hope that scRubio is lower than some of them say. We don’t need an amnesty pimp worming his slimes way into a higher position.
If Trump wins SC it will be because of crossover Democrat voters.
You know, the Democrat 9/11 truthers, birthers, Code Pinkers, Pro Abortionists, Obamacare loving conservative hating liberals Trump needs to win.
We got another Romney arriving only Trump will make his 2012 loss look like a landslide win.
Based on the trajectory in Cruz’s numbers from this poll, if Ted does not win SC by at least 10 points it will be a total failure on Ted’s part. It will be over for him.
Thanks for your understanding. I hate to wish my life away but I will be so glad when tomorrow gets here and we can put all this speculation away.....at least until the next state. LOL!
Give it up, mind numbed Trump trolls are mesmerized by his BS.
Try telling Ludwig Von Wienershnitzel in 1930s Berlin that Hitler is full of krap.
Also, interesting to note that in 2012, it was the PPP poll that was most closest to the big Gingrich win there in SC: Rasmussen being the most significantly off Take a look.
One pollster yesterday estimated that as many as 25 percent of the votes tomorrow will be from Democrats, which is scary. I guess there’s a reason why Trump has been courting the black vote in recent days.
I can only hope that Bernie-mania will tamp down the Dem cross-overs in upcoming states.
Too bad the Democrat crossovers keep Lindsey Graham in office.
The SCGOP keeps asking for closed primaries but the RNC needs them to help the RINOs.
But, you don’t think that Cruz having Glenn Beck running around talking about how Cruz has been sent by God to guide us through the Rapture, and implying that the death of Scalia was part of God’s plan to get us to vote for Cruz, doesn’t hurt him? That’s the kind of talk you hear coming out of compound that has a stockpile of Kool-Aid.
Second outlier in a few days from the same polling org? Was this the same folks who conducted the poll? Not who sponsored it?
If so, either they are seeing something no one else is, or they have something very wrong in their methodology. Tomorrow night we find out.
can you expand on that comment ?
Both were constantly bullied on the playgrounds ;)
One normally calls the poll that is so different an outlier, because it usually is.
You discount Rupert Murdochs propensity to skew polls he owns in his quest to kill Trump
They have done this throughout this primary season
That pony is gonna be leaving an electoral load on your doorstep tomorrow night. Enjoy.
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