Posted on 08/27/2015 11:51:03 AM PDT by xzins
The Quinnipiac University poll, released Thursday, also shows Donald Trump smashing the GOP presidential competition garnering 28% support from registered Republican voters in the 17-member field. The real estate mogul's closest competitor is retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who tallies 12%.
Just 7% said they would vote for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a record low since November 2013.
Those results show just how far both Trump -- now the Republican front-runner -- and Bush -- the old one -- have come. Bush led national polls for much of the first half of 2015, but was quickly dislodged by Trump, after he announced his presidential ambitions this June.
Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida both are tied with Bush at 7%, the polls shows, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 6% and former tech CEO Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich tied at 5%.
"Donald Trump soars; Ben Carson rises; Jeb Bush slips and some GOP hopefuls seem to disappear," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the survey. "Trump proves you don't have to be loved by everyone, just by enough Republicans to lead the GOP pack."
And Trump certainly isn't loved by everyone, the survey shows. About 1-in-4 GOP voters say they would never vote for Trump, topping the field. Bush comes in second with 18%.
Clinton still leads the Democratic race at 45% support from registered Democrats, followed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at 22% and Biden -- who is currently mulling a 2016 bid -- at 18%.
But Biden, currently sporting the highest favorability rating among any 2016 candidates polled of either party, tops Trump 48% to 40%, compared to Clinton, who beats Trump 45% to 41%. Biden also beats Bush, 45% to 39%, compared to Clinton, who beats Bush 42% to 40%.
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Another poll, another good day for Trump
There is a going to be a historic level of turnout in 2016, and it’s not going to be on the part of the Democrats.
Perhaps Joe leads in the general election because people haven’t heard anything from him in awhile. If he gets into this race, that will surely change and so will people’s perceptions of him. Sort of like Rick Perry. Given enough time the real Joe Biden will leak out once again.
Funny how people say Biden was picked for VP to ensure no one did anything to Obama because he is such an idiot.....but now they want to vote for him for president.
Trump is the only one that is not money hungry
Trump is the only one that is not owned by rich donors
All politicians are owned by rich donors and so are corrupt.
Is it any wonder since politicians are government agents. Government is the problem and the media is the problem
Politicians ,government and the media have put us Americans in this hole we are in. I don’t think anyone on this forum can deny that simple fact.
Trump is the solution to Saving America
Ha ha ha! I laugh at the career politicians. Your gig is up. Trump has exposed politicians for the corrupt bought and paid for hacks all politicians are
That is because their bench for their 1/2 of the Uni-Party sucks way worse than ours ( yes I have been saying for quite a while our vaulted 16 aren't all that good except for a handful of them ).
Look at the at their old horses ready for the glue factory in the Senate. The Democratic party is in horrible shape IMHO....
yep. that’s about right.
Republicans have a bench. Democrats have a stool. Or a two holer
Trump needs to turn the dial to eleven.
Based on poll internals,Trump’s appeal is broad based but less than conservative. Weighting the appeal for the candidates such that were all responders for a candidate to identify as very conservative, the conservative appeal(CA)would be 100%; all moderate/liberal, the CA would be 0%; and even between very conservative, somewhat conservative, and moderate/liberal, the CA would be 50% - - - Trump’s CA is less than 50%.
Cruz (CA 85%)
Walker (CA 82%)
Paul (CA 67%)
Huckabee (CA 64%)
Fiorina (CA 61%)
Carson (CA 50%)
Trump (CA 46%)
Christie (CA 41%)
Rubio (CA 40%)
Kasich (CA 37%)
Santorum (CA 30%)
Bush (CA 28%)
Id rather say - Go Cruz.
Here’s what my game plan would be:
Cruz: reclaim the Christian Conservative, Moral Majority portion of the old Reagan coalition. Huge numbers.
Trump: reclaim the blue collar democrat, middle class conservative, defense conservative, and fiscal conservative portion of the old Reagan coalition. Huge numbers.
Result: Trump/Cruz 2016 landslide victory.
So 25% of us Republicans saying we would never vote for Trump is a good day?
It won’t happen.
It will come down to: socialist versus capitalist.
Which do you support...socialism or capitalism?
If Trump wins the nomination and 25% of Republicans say they would never vote for him, where would this historic turnout come from?
That was the 2012 election also. How did that go?
So you believe in polls instead of actual elections?
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