Carson edges Trump as likely GOP nominee (Rasmussen Reports poll

WND ^ | 9/18/2015 | Staff

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

A post-debate poll finds that Ben Cason has leap-frogged over businessman Donald Trump as the candidate most Republican voters believe will win the GOP nomination.

Rasmussen Reports said that 59 percent of likely Republican voters believe that Carson will end up on top after the primary and caucus season is over next year.

He is closely followed by Donald Trump, at 58 percent. Carly Fiorina at 40 percent and Jeb Bush at 40 percent.

[Longbow1969]

No, sorry, I think this is simply about the best you can do.

Though I give you that your latest post has a couple of little insults mixed in with your overall point - which is somewhat better than what you’ve produced earlier.

Sparky as a patronizing little nickname was at least different. I guess I could respond by referring to you as Chief, Ace, Skippy, etc, but I’ll pass.

[Diogenesis]

You take your lead from Romney, Rove and Fiorina.

Can we guess why?

[SaveFerris]

lol

[Norm Lenhart]

It applies.

[catnipman]

“What makes you believe that any candidate will be beholden to voters?”

Your choice: billionaire beholden only to himself and the voters, or candidates owned by other billionaires but pretend like they aren’t.

[Hawthorn]

>> Trump supporters . . . cannot have it both ways <<

The Great Leader can do no wrong. Get over it.

[Ohioan]

This poll is either intended as satire, or as an illustration of how Common Core Math confuses those who employ it.

Read what you have posted. Add the numbers, and acknowledge that this is foolish. You have Carson or Trump as the candidate expected by 117% of the voters. That is like Obama and the 57 States, I guess; but it must be satire.

[Hawthorn]

Thanks for posting three times!

[FreeReign]

lol.

[Thibodeaux]

You confuse snooze with being consistent lying right

[Hawthorn]

>> Sure we can forgive <<

Agreed 100%, but only if we are forgiving of Trump.

On the other hand, it would not be prudent to forgive Rubio for his membership in the gang of eight, to forgive Cruz for his TPP vote, to forgive Fiorina for anything she has ever said or done, to forgive Carson for his lack of national security cred, etc. etc. etc.

[SamAdams76]

All I know is that all these polls clearly show that there are only four candidates in the hunt at this time:

Trump
Carson
Cruz
Fiorina

Three of them non politicians and the other a clearly non-establishment politician.

The other 12 or so candidates are all establishment politicians and are consistently at or under 6% in the polls and are at this time non-factors.

[Brown Deer]

59 + 58 + 40 + 40 percent = 197 percent, and that’s before you add in the rest of them. That makes sense to me. ;-)

[Hawthorn]

>> Trump doesn’t need nor want their money <<

I don’t think that’s correct. As I recall, Trump has said he’d commit up to 100 million of his own funds. But a national run for POTUS is likely to cost a billion or more.

And don’t tell me he’s worth eight billion. That figure is not accepted by hard-nosed financial analysts, because it assumes that the mystical Trump “brand” is worth about six billion all by itself. His actual assets appear to be around 2.5 billion, almost all tied up in non-liquid real estate. His free cash reserves have been estimated at anywhere from 50 to 200 million.

(And if you think he’s going to mortgage his real estate to finance a risky POTUS campaign, you may want to enter the bidding for that well-known bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn.)

[Zeneta]

For what it's worth.

Joe Cartoon - Dancing Monkey Don't Never Get To Be Kong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqCUJ_HbVzA

[Zeneta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqCUJ_HbVzA

[Norm Lenhart]

If they are genuinely sorry for their mistakes, why not. If they aren’t, why would we?

Rubio is hardly sorry.

[Hawthorn]

>> If they are genuinely sorry for their mistakes, why not. If they aren’t, why would we? <<

Well, of course they all will say they're sorry.

But I think we can't believe anybody other than the Dear Leader, i.e., He who can do no wrong.

[mkjessup]

Sparky as a patronizing little nickname was at least different. I guess I could respond by referring to you as Chief, Ace, Skippy, etc, but I’ll pass.

Good.

"A man's got to know his limitations."

[conservative98]

I don’t think that’s correct. As I recall, Trump has said he’d commit up to 100 million of his own funds. But a national run for POTUS is likely to cost a billion or more.

Here's the thing. He said he would spend up to $1 billion to win the nomination. But he said yesterday a more realistic number he would need is $100 million to win the nomination. After he gets the nomination, he said he will rely on the RNC for funds and he is getting a lot of free publicity.