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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I think some of those Democrats will be crossing over to vote for Trump. I think a good many of them in places like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and in many southern and western states don’t think the DC and NYC liberals speak for them anymore especially on immigration. If Trump is the GOP nominee he will get an enormous crossover Democratic vote next year.
I wonder if the guy who owns Ashley Madison will give Slow Joe a contribution?
OANN One America News Network actually did a poll among Hispanics and Trump trounced everyone, they did a more extensive poll with ALOT more participants and although the drive by’s have Trump leading OANN has Trump at 40% truly TROUNCING them all!!!!
OANN One America News Network actually did a poll among Hispanics and Trump trounced everyone, they did a more extensive poll with ALOT more participants and although the drive by’s have Trump leading OANN has Trump at 40% truly TROUNCING them all!!!!
Every year for the last 120 years government (tyranny) has grown. For all these years every month growing tyranny(socialism) , more government,more debt, more laws, more regulations.all of these evils and more have grown every month since then every day in many cases more laws more corruption more tyranny.
and since 1965 democrats started importing more leftists as immigrants from the 3rd world . so added to these growing evils were 1 million leftists added every year since 1965. and then add really bad trade deals on top of that.
regarding the polls I had made the same estimate putting in the liberal media poll variable (add 10 points to any one the media is out to get in this case Trump. the liberal media has Trump at 30 well then add 10 to get the real poll number for Trump 40. and Viola OAN confirms my estimate!
If Trump will keep saying Wall, deport illegals, and will say again how all politicians are bought paid for and owned by rich internationalist donors then he has it in the bag.
This is why the Pub candidates need to hammer the theme of how badly the Dems have screwed the future of younger voters...
Whether or not he thinks he has a chance, does Biden really want to put himself and his family through this at this stage of his life? And if he answers his party's call reluctantly, how will that translate on the campaign trail? You need the proverbial "fire in the belly" to compete at that level. I just don't see that from him.
He’s been a very out-of-sight vice president, but the Democrats must know how things would go if he actually ran. This is a 2005 quote from pro-Democrat David Ignatius of the Washington Post, which I just came across while doing some searching due to Ignatius writing an article dismissing Hillary’s email scandal. It was an interesting article to read because his descriptions of Democrats in 2005 sound quite a bit like the Republicans today.
“The Democrats’ problem is partly a lack of strong leadership. Its main spokesman on foreign policy has become Sen. Joseph Biden, a man who — how to put this politely? — seems more impressed with the force of his own intellect than an objective evaluation would warrant. Listening to Biden, you sense how hungry he is to be president, but you have little idea what he would do, other than talk . . . and talk.”
What Democrats Should Be Saying
By David Ignatius
Friday, August 19, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801645.html
Their polls do lie.
I’m seeing that too, in the state I’m in, Kentucky. There are these periodic “Bluegrass polls” financed by a couple of newspaper and TV stations, and they are frequently questionable, as if they’re meant to influence opinion at times. They’re conducted by SurveyUSA, which apparently is a major polling company. This is an interview with someone who at least used to be a top person there about the way it does polls, automated versus live person interviewer, which apparently from the article was and maybe still is controversial:
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2005/02/the_hotlines_su.html
In last fall’s Senate race between McConnell and Alison Lundergan Grimes, a poll about a few weeks before the election had Grimes pulling ahead by a few points, which the media excitedly ran with, with only an occasional mention that the poll seemed to be an outlier. I’ve seen similar results to these Bluegrass polls in the couple of years I’ve lived in the state. They’ve reported a couple of times over the last few months that a Rand Paul versus Hillary Clinton match-up in the state is a toss up, and I can’t see that. The state solidly went even for McCain and Romney, and I can’t believe Hillary would have that much support here. SurveryUSA claims to have great accuracy calling elections, but when the election isn’t close, or they’re polling on an issue, they seem to push liberal views, at least in Kentucky.
Obama as president has been bad enough, but that stupid Biden would be Jimmy Carter the second. A blooming idiot if there ever was one. He will probably steal JFK’s speech. “Not what your country can do for you, but all that you got you can give to the new citizens from the world that have moved here and need your stuff to survive. I.E. your money.”
Palin and Ryan had their chance to expose Biden, but they took the “gentlemanly” route and failed.
Actually, many Christian conservatives are uninformed and choose candidates by the cult of personality. Many probably like Obama and Biden.
Biden lied and misrepresented throughout his debate with Palin. Palin showed him up in that debate. The media refused to cover it. And Palin...you know what they did to her.
Including her GOP-E enemies.
Bill Clinton won KY twice; people there like a clinton, whom they falsely associate with a “good economy”.
I know he did. But it was well within the “Perot margin.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Kentucky,_1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Kentucky,_1996
In contrast, in my home state, New York, Bill Clinton defeated the GOP candidate and Perot combined both times, though one was by less than ten thousand votes.
And look at the last Presidential elections going back to 1996 here:
http://www.270towin.com/states/Kentucky
The senators are also GOP, which, I know the criticisms of McConnell especially, but he is still some distance from Hillary Clinton, Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
I know what you mean that it does go for Dems, though. It seem to elect many at the state and lower levels, including governor.
Yet despite that, I just cannot see, if they are actually polling adequately and accurately outside of Louisville and Lexington, how Paul would be in a toss-up with Hillary Clinton. Paul won his Senate seat handily and Hillary Clinton is still Hillary Clinton. Look at this headline from the Herald-Leader: “Uh-oh: Bluegrass Poll shows Rand Paul and Hillary Clinton tied ... in Kentucky!” That’s the tone of the coverage on it.
I hope if Hillary remains in the race she will get attacked, too, on her claims of the wonderful Clinton economy.
KY has long been a low-wage state, and people there think Clinton will bring higher wages.
Wrong. Romney got more conservative votes than GWB did in 2000 or 2004, had the strongest record against illegal aliens, and had a horrible GOTV campaign.
You’re falsely blaming conservatives when they were outnumbered by Democrats.
McCain was viewed as an angry old warmonger and did little to inspire people, nor did he inspire the conservative base.
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