ABC/WaPo national poll: Trump’s lead declines, Cruz, Rubio, and Kasich all gain

This is why you have to look at the underlying numbers and not just the Trend line. The only reason Trump went up and Cruz went down in the Trend line is because one of the polls that rolled off the average was one that showed Cruz up by 2 over Trump. Now that poll was obviously an outlier and had skewed the trend against Trump - but then you had the CNN poll showing Trump up by 33 points, which was also an outlier in the other direction, so they tended to balance each other out, but now you just have the CNN poll in the average, skewing the trend to the high side for Trump.

This poll today is the only national poll taken since the last 2 debates. It shows Trump losing significant ground since the last ABC/WaPo poll, which had Trump with a 16 point lead. Whether other national polls will show a similar trend is unknown at this time, but the poll does seem to reflect what we observed on Saturday.

The problem with pivoting for me, is that Cruz’ eligibility issue really is a big deal even though everybody is pretending it is not. Casting a vote for Ted Cruz is yet another nail in the constitution's coffin. What we ought to be doing in light of the perfectly awful Obama presidency, and the lingering questions that many have regarding where he was born, etc., is firmly shutting this ineligibility door. This issue OUGHT to be forefront and center, and we should be confirming that Article II of the constitution must forever be respected in the future, in addition to which we ought to tidy things up a bit, confirming once and for all the difference between natural born, native born, and naturalized, and such things as requiring a candidate pass a top level security should be required — which would have saved us from both the Clinton and the Obama presidency. As it is now, if Cruz is allowed to run, and worse if he wins, the door to the white house is wide open to virtually anyone in the world. Do we really want a middle eastern Muslim King whose mother held American citizenship in charge of our US military? If we conservatives insist that Cruz is the only answer to our problems, and insist on nominating and electing Cruz, we certainly open the door to that possibility, and it is we, not the left, who have failed future generations, condemning them to both the loss of our sovereignty, our culture, our independence, and perhaps even our God.

If Trump goes into the Convention with the most delegates, we are doomed to lose in November.

Either Trump gets the nomination, and Hillary beats him like a rented mule, or somebody else gets the nomination, and millions of Trump fans stay home.

The only way to avoid losing in November is for somebody to beat Trump now. Somebody has to amass enough delegates so he can claim the nomination through a process that Trump fans will find legitimate.

RE: Either Trump gets the nomination, and Hillary beats him like a rented mule,

What makes you so certain that the above scenario will be the case?

There are MANY Sanders supporters who tell me they will not vote for Hillary under any circumstances ( I’ve even see some who tell me they’d rather go with Trump ).

And of course, we have the FBI investigating Hilary factor that has not been played out fully yet.

RE: Trump saying “Rubio’s amnesty bill was the right thing to do” I don’t recall his saying those words or anything to that effect. He did say that he was more open to accepting more H1-B visas ...

In the last Debate, When Rubio was talking about working with Dem controlled Congress trying to get best bill possible, and Trump was talking about being flexible, he brought up the Rubio Amnesty bill and said "That was the right thing to do".

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