Posted on 09/01/2015 7:02:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
So says PPP, the same outfit responsible for that poll a few weeks back showing Trump losing head-to-head match-ups against Rubio and Walker in North Carolina. Either NC is an outlier or the mood has changed nationally because Republicans across America now prefer him to either of those candidates — and not narrowly either. He leads Rubio by eight when voters are forced to choose between them and Walker by 14. As for Jeb Bush, gadzooks:
Jeb’s got another month to turn things around before the donor class heads for the lifeboats, I think. There is one candidate tested who still tops Trump head to head: That’d be Ben Carson, the race’s nice-guy outsider, who leads Trump by six, 49/43. How come? Quite possibly because of evangelical support. Evangelicals prefer Trump to Bush, Rubio, and even Scott Walker by comfortable margins. Against Carson, though, Trump trails 49/41 among that group versus 48/44 among non-evangelicals. That’s a bad sign for Trumpmania in Iowa if Carson has legs.
Here’s an … interesting poll result.
Our new poll finds that Trump is benefiting from a GOP electorate that thinks Barack Obama is a Muslim and was born in another country, and that immigrant children should be deported. 66% of Trump’s supporters believe that Obama is a Muslim to just 12% that grant he’s a Christian. 61% think Obama was not born in the United States to only 21% who accept that he was. And 63% want to amend the Constitution to eliminate birthright citizenship, to only 20% who want to keep things the way they are.
Trump’s beliefs represent the consensus among the GOP electorate. 51% overall want to eliminate birthright citizenship. 54% think President Obama is a Muslim. And only 29% grant that President Obama was born in the United States. That’s less than the 40% who think Canadian born Ted Cruz was born in the United States.
Among Republicans who believe Obama was born in the U.S., Trump leads the GOP field with a comparatively modest 21 percent. Among those who don’t believe Obama was born here, he leads with 39 percent. Head to head among the group that believes Obama was born here, he trails all five candidates he’s tested against — Bush, Carson, Fiorina, Rubio, and Walker. Among the group that believes Obama wasn’t born here, he utterly demolishes all five, with Carson trailing by 16 points and the rest trailing by 30 points or more. You get similar results when you divide the primary electorate by who thinks Obama is a Christian and who thinks he’s a Muslim. Trump leads the field among the first group with 24 percent but leads among the second with 35 percent. The head-to-head polling is predictable too, with Trump trailing badly to Bush, Carson, Fiorina, and Rubio among the “Obama is a Christian” group but winning handily among the “Obama is a Muslim” crowd. (He leads Scott Walker among both groups.) You wanted populism, you got it.
As for Trump’s appeal among different wings of the party, it’s true that he’s leading among tea partiers and non-tea-partiers alike but his strength is much greater among the first group than the second here. Among TPers, he’s the first choice of 42 percent, far more than anyone else in the field; among non-TPers, he leads with 25 percent, 10 points ahead of Carson. In head-to-head match-ups TPers prefer him to all of the five other candidates, and only Carson even makes it close. Scott Walker, the next strongest Trump challenger in this category, trails him among tea partiers by 19 points.
But never mind all that. What you really want is the “Trump vs. Fox News and Megyn Kelly” polling. Here you go.
Tea partiers prefer Trump handily to Kelly but they’re evenly divided between Trump and Fox News generally. In fact, Fox has an astounding 86/4 favorable rating among tea partiers versus 62/19 for the rest of the party. Even Kelly is at 48/27 within the group, a rating most politicians would accept happily. Interestingly, although Fox News’s favorability is much higher among those who say Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. than those who say he is, Kelly’s favorability runs the other way, increasing among those who think Obama was born here. The same trend shows up among those who say Obama’s a Christian and those who say Obama’s a Muslim: Fox is more popular with the latter group whereas Kelly is more popular with the former. That’s in keeping with her image generally as a more middle-of-the-road anchor in Fox’s otherwise firmly right-wing line-up.
Oh, incidentally: She just finished the month of August at number one in all of cable news, O’Reilly included, in the 25-54 demo, the group that advertisers care most about. That’s only the third time she’s done that since “The Kelly File” began. What happened to the post-debate boycott?
deliver, apparently. My bad from my tablet. My desktop is the wzy to go.
No worries. I refuse to text. I am all thumbs and the text is too small to see my mistakes. I have enough trouble on my 17” screen.
It looks like Carly will be in the debates after all.
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/01/cnn-amends-debate-criteria-fiorina-may-get-in/21230335/
We do need cheap labor if we want our crop foods to be cheap enough for most to buy. Native born aren’t keen on picking at the rates that are paid, especially if their ancestors were slaves. Something better needs to be don on this problem. I’m thinking, I’m thinking, may come back with an idea after a night’s sleep. Good Night.
It is stunning and depressing that so many Republicans would still vote for Jeb Bush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO6Bdt7mbVY&info=FiorinaSupportsCapTrade
Fiorina fully accepts the leftist theory of catastrophic global warming … without any reservations. But then she now says that we can’t achieve anything if we act alone. The fact of the matter is that if the Chicken Little theory is correct like Fiorina says, then we could do at least something by acting alone, and in fact in 2008 Fiorina herself advocated extreme unilateral (the US alone) action on climate change with her Cap & Trade scheme that would have cut CO2 emissions by 83% within 3 decades:
Fiorina stalking horse for Hillary ?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/heres-audio-and-video-of-carly-fiorinas-forceful-praise-of-h#.xmDrKGM6a5
I still dont understand who in the hell is voting for Jeb(democrats?). I have not met one person I know thats for Jeb not one.
DON’T EVER LET ANYBODY TELL YOU H1B VISA’s ARE FOR CHEAP LABOR - THEY NEVER ARE.
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Thanks TFH. I’ve seen several postings by the other person that claims Cruz wants to bring in more cheap labor via H1Bs.
I worked for a major defense contractor for about 35 years in a professional discipline. It was very costly to bring foreigners on H1Bs to fill various highly technical positions.
Mrs. Cruz is CEO of Houston Goldman Sachs - the revolving door between the Federal Government and the Wall Street Banksters. No conflict of interest brewing there - but, I guess you’re quite OK with that little set up.
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Get up to speed. ....She left her job when Ted Cruz decided to announce his candidacy.
And what is wrong with hiring AMERICAN engineers, scientists and mathematicians?
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Nothing. It seems that liberal US colleges and universities insist on turning out grads of black/women studies, art, socialogy, hip-hop, etc., instead of grads with entry level skills in critical industries/businesses.
No sale. Tell your defense contractor to hire Americans. Most Americans do not care about some contractors bottom line or coming under budget and winning some contract. Profits regardless of consequences has all but left America dead on the floor. Big policy changes are needed. New policies are likely on the way. Just not soon enough.
BS...
Oh, incidentally: She just finished the month of August at number one in all of cable news, O’Reilly included, in the 25-54 demo, the group that advertisers care most about. That’s only the third time she’s done that since “The Kelly File” began. What happened to the post-debate boycott?
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Seems to me she was absent for more than a week (11 days vacation?)during the month of August, so I would say HER popularity and CURIOSITY might be playing somewhere in these numbers. The controversy obviously pushed curiosity.
I don’t get the Carson thing either. It’s a little better than voting for a community organizer to run the country, but how does anyone think a surgeon has the ability or the background to get America’s economy straightened out, our Armed Forces built back up, our foreign relations back into balance and the myriad of other massive problems that face this nation.
I think a lot of people who choose Carson love his soft easy spoken bedside manner, and don’t give a thought to his true qualifications or lack of same. In the new administration, yes, but president, NO.
And CARSON FLIP FLOPPED on the 2nd amendment.
Some will choose the neurosurgeon because he has a lovely bedside manner. I say to them: We need more than a brain surgeon in Washington, we need someone who is going to say YOU’RE FIRED! We need somebody to clean house.
I do not like anything about Fiorina. Anyone who accepts Global Warming as fact is going to crucify America on the orders of the One World Order, i.e. united Nations, and will always put America second. I can’t see where or why people like her....except maybe just because she’s a woman. Pretty lame excuse.
The something that needs to be done is cut out their benefits and they will have to go to work in order to survive. If they don’t want to work at “slave labor” they can stay in school and study to better themselves just as other people do, instead of join gange, drop out, turn to crime, and the other nefarious ways so many choose to survive such as run drugs. What is the difference in picking a crop and working in a steel mill, mine, or any other “hands on” labor? Why should they be privileged because they don’t want to work particularly if their ancestors were slaves. We need to get off the bleeding heart crap and make everybody earn his keep.
I was laid off and had to train my H-1B replacement that was make 2/3 of my salary with no benefits.
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