Posted on 08/30/2015 5:51:15 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A pollster in Iowa said on Sunday that Donald Trump is defying political logic with his 2016 GOP presidential campaign.
Ann Selzer added that Trump is converting skeptics in the Hawkeye State in a way she has never previously encountered.
“A few months ago, he had the highest unfavorable [rating] of anybody,” Selzer said of Trump on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“And people said, ‘Well, he can’t possibly do any better in the horse race because his unfavorable [ratings] are so high,’” said Selzer, president of the Selzer & Company polling firm in Des Moines. “Can you ever really turn those around?”
“I said, ‘You know, we’ve seen everything happen,' ” she told host John Dickerson. “And we’ve certainly seen it happen this time.”
Selzer pointed out her organization’s latest poll as proof that Trump is winning the respect of everyday Iowans.
The new Bloomberg/Des Moines Register sampling released on Saturday has the outspoken billionaire scoring a 61 percent favorability rating.
He earns a 35 unfavorability rating, the survey added, a nearly complete reversal since the last Bloomberg/Des Moines Register sampling in May.
“He now has seven people with higher unfavorable [ratings] than he has, and that includes Jeb Bush,” Selzer said Saturday, referencing the former GOP governor of Florida.
“He has grown his favorability and its turned into votes,” she added of Trump’s fortunes in Iowa.
Saturday’s poll also said that Trump leads the race in Iowa for next year’s GOP presidential nomination with 23 percent support.
The latest RealClearPolitics average of national samplings, meanwhile, also has the New York business mogul ranked first in the Republican field with 23.5 percent.
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Political Logic —> Military Intelligence.
And the beat goes on.
I was for Trump before it was cool.
This is a perfect illustration of the general public’s utter disgust with both political machines. Trump is far from the ideal conservative candidate, but he’s good enough and he’s without doubt in it to win it and he loves America.
I’m not going to use the “N” word, but my eyes are getting a bit misty just thinking about the pain this will bring him.
Trump is,a phenomenon. Someone in a politically correct era who speaks for the people and has the stones to verbalize what they think, but dont say outloud to this point. No wonder GOPe, libs, and the media are apoplectic.
There people cannot give him credit for being a master at communication and marketing. The best really. It only makes him stronger when every article starts out like “Blowhard Trump” or “Clown Car Trump”. The clowns are those who underestimate his mastery at communication.
And now the elites are really crapping their pants, because the more they attack him, the better people like him. What do they do now?
Idiots
Out
Walking
Around
I used to live there, believe me, I know it to be true!
IOWANS: These were the same people who launched Barack Hussein Obama into the presidential race in 2008.
Did you live in Des Moines or east of there?
Fortunately, Trump is even more popular in the rest of the country than he is in Iowa.
Are you saying that it is idiots who like Trump?
you idol worshipers still don’t get it.
If 70% of the country though abortion was ok, that would still not make it right
If Donald Trump gets more than 50% in a this poll or that poll, that doesn’t make him a conservative. That just goes to show that the voting populace in this country can be manipulated with ease to the point its put the future of the country in jeopardy.
Faith in numbers without facts to back it up will crumble like clay. Unfortunately for many of you, I doubt you have the skills to reason out this folly before it’s too late.
That’s it in a nutshell.
Pick Cruz as VP and we’re set.
Trump gets votes across the spectrum.
Cruz will get SOLID turn out from Evangelicals and tea party members.
Moderates and independents wont be thrilled with Cruz but VERY few people vote against a president because of his VP.
Knew most of the Orton family (QB Kyle Orton..) went to high school with more Orton family members than I could count. Big Baptist family, very humble. Lived only a few miles from Adventureland. Spent my summer's riding my 125CC Indian dirt bike through the cornfields and taunting the local sheriff to catch me. :-) OH the good times are now starting to come back. :-)
Attended SouthEast Polk High School and was on the football and swim team. (Yeah, I know -- that's a weird combination isn't it?)
In all seriousness, I like to make that joke about Iowans but the truth is they're the nicest, most considerate and gentle people walking the planet.
Still, they were dumb enough to caucus for Obama and that launched his bid for the White House. If he'd have lost there, I seriously doubt he'd have gone much further.
No, just posting my favorite joke about Iowa. Having grown up and lived there, I have that right.
I’m finding everyone I talk to is for Trump and that includes Democrats.
When in the military I spent a month there in 1982 at Rockwell Collins learning some crypto gear. The Marines put me up at the Longbranch Best Western. It was high living for me back in the day. I used to go down to the bar and get Michelob on draft. That was the fancy beer back then if you didn't want to drink Bud or Miller. It was a lot like that movie Fargo, in how the people talked and acted.
There was a big shopping mall across the street. This was the height of mall culture, when MTV was just getting started and "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" was a recent movie. I remember walking through that mall and seeing all the high school girls with the big hair and the guys with their letter varsity jackets. "Down Under" by Men At Work was the big song during that time. It seemed like everywhere I went, that song was coming through the speakers. Also John Cougar. A lot of John Cougar.
I have fond memories of that month in Iowa. I would also go there three times afterwards as my wife had relatives that lived in Marion, which is just outside Cedar Rapids.
The fact that Trump is doing well there bodes well. I mean if anybody would reject a city slicker businessman like Trump, it would be Iowa. But they seem to love him out there.
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