Debate stage: Voters like Bush, Rubio. A lot don’t like Trump (Press tries to grab narrative back?)

In fact, more than half find Trump a distraction from the primary process, not a serious candidate.

With the first Republican presidential debate coming up Thursday, a new McClatchy-Marist poll finds that a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents personally like Bush, saying they view him favorably rather than unfavorably. Large numbers also like Marco Rubio and Mike Huckabee, far more than dislike them.

But nearly half dislike Trump, suggesting that the billionaire businessman who leads national Republican polls will have a hard time reaching those personally hostile voters and growing his constituency, while a host of others have room to surge.

The debate in Cleveland, the first of a monthly series, will feature the 10 Republicans, plus ties, atop an average of national polls. As many as seven other candidates will not qualify and instead can participate in a late afternoon forum.

The McClatchy-Marist poll dropped questions about voting choices in this survey, believing the debate criteria is a misuse of public polling data for a critical first debate. This survey instead measures how voters feel about the candidates for the Republican and Democratic nominations.

This article “Debate stage: Voters like Bush, Rubio. A lot don’t like Trump” is a total joke. And the reason Trump is liked extremely well is the pussies we have had for Presidential Candidates and the wonky pussies we have in the Senate and some in the House... People especially Conservatives and Right leaning moderates WANT LEADERS — and few to be found in the last six years or more in the Republican Party and here is one reason - The Main Reason Why Trump is POPULAR... and why people LIKE TRUMP.... contrary to the idiot article...

The reason for the Republican ‘empty platform’ - from the last Presidential Election to this one - is that Republican Presidential candidates are cowed by the shrieking and shrill screams of violations of Political Correctness flung at them by the Liberal-Left-Progressives- the OFFENDED ONES. These Presidential Candidates just do not have the courage or ability to combat it. And much of it nothing more than over done frantic - even false claims of offending someone or some group. So the Republican Candidates just mastered the art of muddling through so as to avert and avoid the shrill chorus of leftist PC mud throwing. The net result of this is that Republican Presidential Candidates talk mush and platitudes instead of dealing with problems and suggesting solutions.

This is quite an effective weapon the Political Liberal-Left-Progressives have devised. They and their constituencies have become a group of the constantly and continually offended - all at the drop of a hat. It WORKS - it shuts up Republicans... The main reason it works — benefactors who finance the campaigns of Republicans cannot handle the PC heat and threaten to cut off funds ... so Republicans become meek sheep and dummy up.

Trump has the money and he just doesn’t give a damn and will speak his mind because no one is going to cut off his funding. For the time being Trump is Teflon Man and nothing sticks. Personally I hopes it lasts all the way through the November 2016 Presidential Elections — and Trump tells all the perpetually offended to GO SUCK AN EGG....

I blame the lack of backbone, lack of resoluteness and having no political courage on the part of Republicans for not facing up to the challenge as Donald Trump is doing now. The dumb butt Republicans fell into a conventional wisdom that just be Go Along To Get Along be Politically Correct nicey nicey guys -— do not stand up for what you believe in SHEEP. And the other side has been beating them at the Presidential Level. Had McCain and / or Romney acted like a Donald Trump there never would have been a President Obama and certainly not a second election for him ... But McCain and Romney were WIMPS because they let themselves be controlled totally by the GOP/RNC / U.S. Chamber of Commerce and tried to be everything to everybody and could not then be distinguished from a doormat ....

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