I would be amazed if Ben Carson (the "surging surgeon") can maintain those polling numbers. My theory is that many would-be Trump voters are parked with Carson for the time being.
“Just amazing how the establishment candidates have been kept in single digits by two candidates who have never before held political office”.
With one of them doing absolutely nothing to rise in the polls. One that had about 3 minutes in the first debate and said nothing of note except a joke about about politicians needing brain surgery. Now with the amnesty plan that’s more democrat than republican will Apostle Ben continue to rise.
That's my feeling, too. Once they've left the establishment sellouts, they're (we're) not going back.
The opinion I've been expressing about Dr. Carson is that he's reminding me a bit of Alan Keyes. Keyes had his one issue, but when you scratched the surface, he wasn't all that conservative or presidential.
As far as Carly "the outsider" goes: Maybe she'll appeal to the Republican women who are Republican because their husbands are. Real Constitutional Conservative women tend to favor Alpha males, that's my personal experience and the feeling I get on FR. Carley might appeal to FemNazis, but they're mostly not Republican. Besides that, it's in the DNA for women to like "can-do" successful men, and Trump gets that vote.
What is disgusting is the elite are keeping their Jeb game going, knowing damn well grass root Republicans can't stand him. They still have a strategy to cobble together a nomination, so it seems. If they do that, they'll never get the election unless the dems also have someone no one can stand.
So, yeah, thinking as I type, if it's even 10% fair, Trump so it seems is pretty close to having the nomination sewn up.
Next step?.....WATCH OUT if they start promoting Kasich as a compromise candidate or a VP possibility with Jeb.