Posted on 04/15/2011 10:40:09 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Public Policy Polling -- a Democratic firm -- has a poll out today that shows Donald Trump leading among Republicans nationally. But after reading the questions I'm quite skeptical of the result.
The first four questions measure favorability ratings for Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney. The fifth question asks who respondents would vote for if the choices were Michele Bachmann, Haley Barbour, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, and Mitt Romney. The sixth through eighth questions ask who they'll choose among that field if Huckabee doesn't run, if Palin doesn't run, and if neither Huckabee nor Palin run. Then comes the ninth question: Here's one last scenario: what if Donald Trump ran for President and the candidates were Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, and Donald Trump. Who would you vote for? It's well-established that poll results can be seriously skewed by question order and phrasing. The way this poll is written seems quite likely to prejudice respondents to think of Trump as a particularly interesting candidate. This is supposed to be a scientific assessment of Trump's electoral strength?
The tenth question in the poll asks if respondents would "be willing or unwilling to support a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination who firmly stated they believed Barack Obama was born in the United States"; 23% of the sample says 'unwilling,' and PPP claims that this explains Trump's high poll numbers. Please.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Looks like the anti-Birthers are going to try anything to justify not bringing up Obama Eligibility
If the GOP continues to diss the Birthers....Obama will have a 50 state sweep in 2012....whether or not Trump runs. You cannot win elections urinating on the base
The wimp wing of the party still refusing to believe that punching Obama in the face actually works.
Well put!!!
GOP is part of our problem. It is becoming painfully evident to many around here.
The Donald would be a formidable candidate. He is a nasty, no sh*t customer. I could just love to see Obongo in a debate with that sweaty upper lip as Trump calls him a “Disaster” and a “Doe eyed pointy headed incompetant”. No Queensberry rules for Trump, it;s take all the money people will throw at him and every ad , blasting the Dummy and snapping enough people out of their white guilt stupor. I love how Donald is getting it like Palin is from the GOP establishment.
And Trump hasn't even kneed him in the groin yet.
“The way this poll is written seems quite likely to prejudice respondents to think of Trump as a particularly interesting candidate.”
Huh? Who doesn’t ALREADY think Trump would be an “interesting” candidate?
This article is off the mark, sorry.
This shows the media/Democrats are propping Trump up.
Agree...Watching the debate when he congratulates Barry for surpassing Carter as “America’s worst president” would be priceless. Obama would breakdown in tears.
Do you think Donny’s attacks are just a scam, them?
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Canada Free Press:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12999
(snip)
Every member of the Supreme Court, every member
of congress, every member of the Joint Chiefs, most members of the DOD, CIA, FBI, Secret Service and
state run media, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, Fox and print news, knows that Barack Hussein Obama
does NOT meet Article II – Section I constitutional requirements for the office he holds.
By his own biography, there is NO way he can pass the test. The hard evidence is so far beyond overwhelming, it is ridiculous.
(snip)
But not ONE member of America’s most powerful people will dare confront Obama and his anti-American cabal
on the subject. The Constitution does NOT stand.
(snip)
Half of the people you expect to stop this insanity
are quiet co-conspirators in the silent coup.
The other half is paralyzed by fear, motivated
only by political self-preservation.
(Snip)
Americans keep asking what they can do because
they see that none of their leaders are doing
anything to stop the demise of their beloved country. It’s the right question, because those leaders
are NOT going to stop this thing.
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Canada Free Press is absolutely right.
Everybody knows Obama is not qualified for POTUS
They are either afraid or co-conspirators
The constitution does not stand
Who among the possible Republican candidates have had the guts to confront Obama?
Sarah? Mittens? Gomer? No.
One man has come foward with the guts- and the resources to expose Obama.
Donald Trump.
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The facts re; BC fraud, Obama not natural born citizen:
How to reach Trump:
http://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump
http://twitter.com/#!/realDonaldTrump
http://shouldtrumprun.com/
http://shouldtrumprun.com/your-voices/
http://shouldtrumprun.com/contact-us/
Herman Cain
Send research material to help Trump to:
Mr. Michael D. Cohen, Executive Vice President and Special Counsel
The Trump Organization
725 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10022’
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It goes back to Willkie in 1940 and maybe Hoover in 1932 too.
It's called the "Perot Solution".
Other potential candidates need to heed what Trump is doing.
He’s FIGHTING the left, and specifically 0bama.
He’s not being collegial. And it’s working.
Bump
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