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?
As far as his dealings in NYC - when in Rome ...
I like the way DT trashes the GOPe and the MSM hacks ... I like that he is not PC ... I like that he does not pull punches ... However, I am not an idiot - my trust goes only so far, and Mr. Trump is no Boy Scout. Yeah, I know he’s got baggage - they all do, if you dig deep enough.
However, Trump is the only guy that I actually believe will do what he says he will do. Why? Because he’s got King Kong size balls - and an ego to match ... An ego bigger than all his contenders combined!
The worst thing Trump could ever suffer is failure. His ego will not allow him to fail. The drive to succeed is his aphrodisiac ... I think that Donald Trump will do whatever it takes to keep his promise regarding the entire illegal alien fiasco. I think he will shove a “hosepipe” (LOL) up the butts of both China and Mexico ... And I think he’s the one guy - the only guy - who has the balls and the stomach to drop a nuke on ISIS - and any other Musloid ass-wipe - into oblivion. The rest of the candidates are, at their core, effeminate pushovers - not warriors ... AND AMERICA NEEDS A WARRIOR!
Of course, I could be wrong about all of this - Time will tell. But one thing is certain: If the GOPe manage to put another RINO coward on the ticket, we will get Hitlary Klinton, or one of her commie clones - and if that happens, then America is utterly finished as a nation.
” Native born aren’t keen on picking at the rates that are paid, “
It’s amazing how agriculture always turns out to be the one sphere of the economy where the free market just doesn’t work.
Wages never will adjust to attract the needed workers, and the only solution is to import an endless stream of foreign nationals, most of them illegal.
Actually, the air pollution in China has gotten so bad that they are actually doing a lot more solar and other stuff to try to reduce their dependence on coal than we are.
Never supported Willard - since I had to live under the faggot-loving asshole when he was Governor.
And if you think Ted Cruz has the balls, or the political will, or the intestinal fortitude to take on illegal aliens, then you are sniffing glue. Neither will he do anything about Islam - not “radical Islam” - but plain old ISLAM. A political ideology - NOT a religion ... Never was a religion, never was meant to be anything other than a political system designed to enslave the world beneath the boot of tyranny.
Ted Cruz, like all the other pablum sucking effeminate man-pretenders, will turn out to be a whimpering wall flower, if he gets to sit in the “Big Seat” ...
We cannot afford anymore Pansie-asses or PC pimps. We need a MAN in the Big Seat, somebody who kicks ass, and does not give a flying FK who gets “offended” - including that Marxist Peronista moron we got stuck with for a “pope.”
End welfare - ALL welfare ... Boot out the illegals at the muzzle of a rifle or the point of a bayonet ... Then tell the welfare queens,and their impregnators, to “go work in the fields, or go stave - we really don’t give a FK either way.”
If any farmer or rancher hires an illegal - fine him his entire worth, confiscate his property and auction it off to help pay for “THE WALL” - then strip him of his citizenship and throw him out of the country.
No mercy, no quarter. That is how you stop this crap.
Last I heard China was building a new coal fired power plant every week. May be it is down to 1 every 2 or 3 weeks now. But still, China has awful lot of coal power plants in operation. Pollution in Beijing is awful.
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April 23, 2015
“China added 39 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity in 2014 — 3 gigawatts more than it added in 2013. That is equivalent to three 1,000 megawatt units every four weeks. At the peak, from 2005 through 2011, China added about two 600-megawatt coal plants a week, for 7 straight years. And, China is expected to add the equivalent of a new 600-megawatt plant every 10 days for the next 10 years. These new coal plants that China is constructing are more efficient and cleaner than their old coal-fired plants.”
Wow! It didn’t hurt a bit when you picked my brain! I could not agree more!
The only thing on the table that leaves me needing some hand holding through, is Trump and his understanding of what is going on at Planned Parenthood! If he can’t bulk up with some common sense, and common humanity, on how to bring the hammer down on that atrocity at PP, on our soil, then the rest on ISIS has to be some kind of mental gymnastics, otherwise known as bull$^!+.
I agree with you on the PP garbage ... I get the sense that Trump always looks for a silver lining in everything and everybody - and that might be his Achilles Heel.
PP needs to be shut down, there is no justifiable reason to not immediately shut down every PP facility, and arrest every PP practitioner, executive, etc.
If FEDGOV will not defund PP, then the American people need to rise up and defund FEDGOV, by way of a massive tax strike.
Last I heard him finally say, and only once, was that he could keep the women’s “services” part and defund the rest. I would like that said loud, proud, and often, so I could be at least marginally convinced. Haven’t heard a peep since, however.
Define “services” - that is a rather broad term.
Yikes! WTFOVR! I meant the “service” side that is more common to community clinics. (It must have been late.)
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