Posted on 06/09/2015 1:15:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz finished second in Hot Air’s March survey, but three months later he’s en fuego.
For the third month in a row, the junior senator from Texas leads the crop of contenders among Hot Air readers, garnering a whopping 33 percent of the vote.
And while the sample size is markedly smaller than last month’s survey (only about 1800 readers participated, according to Patrick Ishmael) Ted Cruz, it seems, has finally distanced himself from Scott Walker, a candidate heretofore neck-and-neck with him in the site's recurring and monthly survey:
A few interesting tidbits:
A cursory glance at the results show that Rick Perry has siphoned off, if not outright and skillfully stolen, many of Scott Walker’s supporters. For instance, in May Scott Walker and Rick Perry were polling at 34 percent and 3 percent, respectively. (That latter statistic is particularly unimpressive, given that Perry has been on the national stage before, and gained a sizable following before fanning out in 2012). And yet, several weeks later that dynamic has completely shifted. While Ted Cruz still retains around the same level of support, Scott Walker is polling at just 24 percent, and Rick Perry—impressively—has catapulted himself into third place.
Is this an indication that conservatives are giving Perry a second look after his successful campaign launch last week, or will this noticeable, somewhat unexpected bounce in the polls be temporary and short-lived?
Carly Fiorina, meanwhile, is steadily making a name for herself among Hot Air readers. She finished fifth in this month’s survey overall. However, while she is still hovering somewhere in the mid-single digits, many respondents might be coming around, or at the very least, not rejecting outright the idea of supporting her in the primary:
Finally, the poll also found that most respondents do not want to legalize marijuana (34/66), allow Puerto Rico to become a US state (24/76), or formally adopt an “open door policy” permitting other countries to join the Union (28/72). See the full results here.
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Ping!
Yet the MSM still can’t bring themselves to utter his name.
Soon the LSM will HAVE to acknowledge him.
Go Ted Go.
This poll is like FR hosting a poll. Interesting, but the participants come from a narrow niche.
The New Hampshire poll is what scares. Jeb at 21%, the leader.
Heads will no doubt explode,
Ted Cruz was never going to win New Hampshire. They let Independents and Democrats vote in their primary.
That's funny...you are using New Hampshire (a tiny odd ball outlier of a state with cross over voting) to call a prominent conservative website narrow? Really? That's just comical.
Lemme help you out here: a place like Hot Air is read by HIGH INFORMATION people. Where the HIGH INFORMATION people are, is where others will go once they start paying attention and become more informed themselves. Thus, Hot Air is a good LEADING INDICATOR while New Hampshire rarely means spit. The last winner from NH got his clock cleaned the following week in SC, and the NH win had nothing to do with his Florida win after SC. Thus, NH was meaningless in 2008 and quite often is. Don't sweat it.
As Cruz himself pointed out on Cavuto the other day. Nobody is going to beat Jeb in the fundraising department but at the end of the day it will be the votes that count.
Believe me, Cruz is in second place in fundraising.
Oh yeah. Some $42 million as of last week.
Same with Beck’s weekly poll.
This shows that engaged conservatives back Cruz. Engaged people are usually thought leaders and influencers, so this is encouraging.
fOX WON’T REPORT THIS THEY HAVE A BLOCK ON ANY GOOD NEWS FOR CRUZ.
FOX IS NOT REALLY A CONSERVATIVE NEW ORG.
THEY ARE PUSHING FOR RUBIO BECAUSE OF HIS SPANISH NAME,
CRUZ IS A SPANISH NAME TOO.
CRUZ OR LOSE.
Ted Cruz Ping! Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
How can this be? Other posts and other freepers are sayign he is middle of the pack! RCP says so!
Go Cruz!
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