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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Unweighted Weighted Margin of error
Republican 376 331 6%
Agreed! In Trumps!
Carly will have her moment following the debate.
That’s a lie.
Carson advocates all illegals staying here. They register. They become citizens later.
Trump advocates ALL illegals return to their home nations. They then go through the immigration process and are vetted. Then when they are processed, only the non criminal element can come back in. They are then given legal status. Later they become citizens.
There is a big difference.
The ONLY one out of all the candidates that will proudly build a wall is Trump. None of the others, especially Carson, has the stomach for it. We need a general to make bold decisions, and then DO them. Trump WILL DO, the others just WANT TO DO sometime soon, blah blah.
‘Shame on YOU for not recognizing that trump’s position is not much different than Dr. Carson’s.’
Please detail Carson’s plan for ‘securing the border.’ (Btw, Jeb wants to ‘secure the border,’ too.)
Yeah, these Freepers trolls just pop out of the woodwork. the people you think are conservatives are actually moderates. Heck, i could name 2 regular posters who are into faggot marriage.
If I were you...I would not get too worked up over this poll!!! No one with half a brain listens to any poll or any mainstream media outlet...after they have lied to all us for many, many years!!! If you are a street, military, or just a common, Joe or Jane, you get to feel the real vibes of the American people...and...you saw and heard those last evening in the Dallas American Airlines Center. That’s the real world!!!
I listen to the fools that babble on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel (Especially Hate Filled, Megyn Kelly)...and I shut it all out!!! Not one of them is telling like it is!!! Here is a bit of real news for you!!! Trumps political power and support far exceeds his GOP base. Trump is getting support, across the board, from folks of all political stripes...and for good reason!!! Hispanics & African-Americans have been locked into permanent economic slavery by Obama and his Democrat Party vermin....and these minority folks and others know it. Women are just political chatter for Obama & Democrats that still underpay them across the board. Obama and his “hate America” ilk take us all for idiots!!!
But, trust me the revolution is afoot...and it grows stronger with each passing day. Do not be fooled friend...for Ben Carson is naught but an agent for the “Washington Cabal” of Democrats & Republican Establishment RINOs!!! A plant (Carson) of the enemy walks and talks like a lamb among us. Folks...be wary of a sheep in lambs clothing!!! Go Donald Trump!!!
At the risk of stating the obvious, have you seen some of Mr. Trump's views? Scratch the surface beyond his one issue (immigration)*, and he's against most everything we believe in.
* Of course, even on that one issue, he has not exactly been consistent. See his comments a couple of years ago, when he called Romney's immigration plan "crazy" and "maniacal" and "mean spirited." Yes, he thought that Romney, of all people, was too harsh on immigration.
I’m calling bull stuff on the poll showing Carson anywhere near Trump.
What press is he getting?
What big interviews has he done?
What big crowds is he drawing?
What break through policies has he advanced?
It would be virtually impossible for him to have this much following, and yet it not show up in some way. It hasn’t.
The Ruling Elites of the Press, working with the Republican RNC, Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, are working to inflate Carson.
It would be impossible for you to say that if you had been listening to him.
This comment of yours destroys your credibility out of the gate.
Carson is a liberal. Why bother to vote if he’s the candidate?
What is the most liberal position Trump staked out in his book, Time to get Tough, published in ‘11?
CBS is the worst my God everything from them is the worst propaganda.
I totally agree with you. But I think a lot of the support he does have is the Establishment GOP vote that will eventually go to someone like Kasich instead.
Small sample based on whoever answers the phone, interviews conducted in English and Spanish, and just two questions plucked out of the survey with no idea given what was asked before.
And, of course, they well know how to steer to different phone exchange areas to get different “scientific” results.
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