Cruz rises against Trump in South Carolina poll

Politico ^ | 02/19/16 06:07 AM EST | Nick Gass

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams " Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

[SoConPubbie]

    CRUZ or LOSE!

[napscoordinator]

If this poll is true, then we will have all 6 going into Nevada. No way Bush drops out if he gets 13 percent. Carson getting 9 percent is fine for him. Kasich will continue with those numbers.

[Parley Baer]

Of course there are 5 other polls showing Trump doing quite well. Some of these polls show Cruz dropping. Cruz will be lucky to come in 3rd.

[fireman15]

I guess they figured that people weren’t buying the national poll they came out with that showed Cruz ahead of Trump, so they are now floating this one showing Trump ahead by just a little.

[usafa92]

6th posting of this poll today.

[BigEdLB]

Actually about 20 times if you include yesterday

[heights]

A Rupert Murdoch/WSJ push poll. Trump will kick little teddy’s butt by at least 14 points.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

This is Cruz country. If he can’t win there where is he going to win? California? New York? Make no mistake, nothing but a Cruz victory in SC would indicate a path forward to victory. It ain’t going to happen.

[TontoKowalski]

My sense, and it is only from the news coverage, is that Rubio will surge past Cruz.

I also think that Kasich performs far better than expected, especially since he hasn't really focused on SC. I also think Carson performs slightly better than polling, because I think some Cruz voters will wander over to him.

I'm rooting for Little Jebbie to stay in. I don't think any of them drop out.

[20yearsofinternet]

The pimping for these WSJ polls makes it completely obvious who the cheap labor money is really fighting against here.

Last-ditch efforts to undercut Trump’s win tomorrow and boost the “anybody but Donald” morale.

[HarleyLady27]

http://www.foxnews.com/pohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/oranpsmithlitics/interactive/2016/02/18/fox-news-poll-national-presidential-race-february-18-2016/

The people who were for Cruz is turning to Trump now, that’s why he is getting lower and lower in the polls....

His people that were for him are reading and hearing about the lies he tells....and how much he has flipped and flopped...how he puts his name on the tail end of a bill and then says he was for it before he was against it, sounds like John Kerry when he was running for President doesn’t it?

Yep, Trump is getting the voters to see that Cruz is nothing but a regular ‘politician’ that doesn’t know how to run his own campaign let alone run America:

Liar - Definition: comes from the root word, Lawyer.

Synonyms: Politician, person with subversive, hidden agenda, member of a cartel, cabal, conspiracy, consortium, coven, cult, and/or clique.

[BlueNgold]

So one of the questions to be answered tomorrow...

Who’s right:
NBC/WSJ?
Or everyone else?

If they are right then it lends weight to their national poll, and rhe race is on. If they are off, it may discredit them substantially and the Trump train may start rolling over also rans.

[ripnbang]

6th time this has been posted....

[crz]

HURRAH! Yours is the first posting of this today!
You ought to be real proud of yourself.

[VanDeKoik]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3399071/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3399066/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3399085/posts

[odawg]

“My sense, and it is only from the news coverage, is that Rubio will surge past Cruz.”

The top of the hour newscast just gave a bit a woman stating that “Trump does not represent me or my party”. Her tone dripped venom and hate. Then she said she was for Rubio, the little twerp that is an amnesty pimp.

Maybe she needs some Syrian refugees moved in next door to her house, not that they will bother fondling her.

[catnipman]

Paid Cruz-trolls spamming fifty gazillion posts about the rigged outlier WSJ polls with the Rupert Murdoch Secret Sauce doesn't make them any more realistic than the first time they were posted.

[samtheman]

Here’s the WHOLE story, not just the yummy cherry-pick.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/sc/south_carolina_republican_presidential_primary-4151.html

It does look like Trump is down a bit from his peak, with Rubio picking up what Trump dropped, and Cruz staying flat.

[Lakeshark]

I think this is the thousandth story showing Cruz surging in the WSJ poll.

The outlier. The push poll.

I can't wait until Saturday night when the only poll that matters will happen. And that one will count.