Posted on 09/15/2015 6:54:50 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson has pulled to within 4 points of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, a new poll shows.
In the New York Times/CBS News survey released Tuesday, Trump maintains the lead of the presidential pack, with 27 percent support. But Carson is within striking distance, at 23 percent, which is within the margin of error, making it a statistical dead heat.Carson's rise compared with his polling at 6 percent support in the pre-Aug. 6 debate Times/CBS News survey; Trump was at 24 percent in that earlier poll, showing Carson's gains the most significant in that time frame, the poll shows.
Far behind the leaders were former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, all tied for third place with 6 percent.
Bush's support, however, has plummeted from the 13 percent he got in the August Times/CBS News survey – while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker finished with just 2 percent, down from his previous 10 percent support.
The declines in support for Bush and Walker were the largest in the survey, the poll shows.
In other findings: Carson drew more support from college graduates than Trump, while men, evangelical voters and those without a college education were more likely to favor Trump. Carson is the only candidate to whom Trump would lose a theoretical head-to-head matchup.
The poll's release comes a day before the second Republican presidential debate in California, where Trump will retain center-stage, but Carson will be afforded a bigger spotlight.
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Surprise! Look who’s promoting the “virtual tie” meme:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/15/carson-vaults-into-virtual-tie-with-trump-clinton-slides-in-latest-polls/
>> I don’t know that “liberal” is the right way to describe Trump’s trade tariff policy <<
It’s not “liberal” and it’s not “conservative” as those words are used today. Terms like “statist” and “mercantilist” comes to mind.
I’m sure Juan Peron and Francisco Franco would have been quite comfortable with the policy, as would have been Senator Smoot, Representative Hawley and President Hoover. Then in today’s world, such leading lights as Richard Trumka and Liz Warren can also be counted on for support.
What, specifically, is Carson’s plan for securing the border?
So Trump wanting evenhanded, as opposed to lopsided, trade agreements is a bad thing?
Okay. I can agree with that.
Carson beats Trump in every head to head poll. Now that may not matter in the long run but it is true thus far.
Ouch. Not feeling the tingle I see.
Ben Carson has come out as 100% pro-life, which may have a lot of pro-life people voting for him.
The MSM, GOPe, and DEMS, are all pushing the PC requisite Black candidate and female candidate Carson and Fiorina. So typical. And so bogus. Lord how I hate PC.
I have followed Dr Carson for years. He’s a genuine nice man and he believes in helping others.
But I wonder if he’s experienced enough to see what I see today and FIX it. He had to go to the border to realize how bad it was. He wants to keep illegals here and legitimize them. He wants to be fair... and being fair means he’ll get run over. There is nothing fair with the left.
Nice guys are nice to talk to... But it’s going to take a HARD determined man to get past the left and stay strong while the media attacks daily.
Call me a racist, because I have no intention of ever voting for Carson.
“man, everyday I find libtards on FR. What is it, liberal white guilt?”
It’s emotionalism and weakness...
Partisan Media Shill Alert!
I’m not ruling anybody out, I just have a hunch that Carson is the type of candidate the Iowa caucus voters will vote for. In the same way they voted for Santorum in 2012.
But the next phase of “the Struggle” is income inequality and jail the CEO’s. Carly is not the soros choice for the Designated Loser. That also explains the panic over Trump.
As Cruz, Huckabee, and so many others.
His other positions seem to be right in line with GOPe.
Now there is a real credible source. I have a bridge to sell.
You may be right—”Oh, he’s religious—and such a nice man, too.”
I wonder how his ground game is.
Not worried about Ben Carson. If the GOPe thinks that he’ll pull from Trump as an “outsider”, putting Jeb back into the mix, I think they’re calculating wrong. We don’t just want someone who’s not a politician. We want someone who because they’re not a politician is willing to do what needs to be done to beat the Democrats and save the country. So Ben Carson will keep Jeb in single digits more than he’ll detract from Trump’s rise, and if the race comes down to Trump v. Carson at the end, Trump wins that.
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