And the Voter Gravity poll (Carly Fiorina ahead by 4% over The Donald) is despised as being an outlier, but other leeser-known polling firms aren't despised as being an outlier when they show The Donald ahead.
See how it works?
And now this poll will be despised, too.
And WND will be tossed under the bus even though they are being surveyed as one of the most adamantly pro-Trump websites on the net and even though they are just a messenger for the news from Rasmussen Reports.
Remember, the same arguments that you use against these polls can be used the other way, too.
Trump supporters either like these polls when they are good for The Donald and also when they aren't good for The Donald, or they can quit playing the games with polls --- as they cannot have it both ways.
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.
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.
59 + 58 + 40 + 40 percent = 197 percent, and that’s before you add in the rest of them. That makes sense to me. ;-)
Color amnesty-treason shill Ben Carson white and he would be at zero percent.
The GOP really needs to quit its love of unqualified black token candidates.
All I know is that 1 out of 1 C. Edmund Wright’s believes I am an idiot and Trump sycophant.
A Morning Consult poll, released Friday, surveyed 504 registered voters who watched Wednesday’s Republican primary debate and has only good news for Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina. While the poll’s sample size is small (with a 4.4% margin of error), the poll’s trend is worth noting.
In this same poll, prior to Wednesday night’s debate, Trump sat at 33% support. Dr. Ben Carson sat in second place with 17% support. Today Trump enjoys 36% support. Carson is still in second place but with just 12% support.
Trump’s lead increased from +16 points to +24%. That’s an +8% jump.
Laissez-faire, I know you’ve been around here for a while, but you are certainly carrying the load for the Trump haters around here.
Polls only show you who the left and the MSM want to be ahead or behind at any given moment.
This one sounds like pure BS.
This is pure, unadulterated BS. This is fake-polling from the GOP-e who want to push Carson to bleed off Trump support.
59 + 58 + 41 + 40 = 198.
A poll that has a total of 198% of voters.
Oh, THIS is PERFECTLY valid. Why, it's as valid as precints in Chicago that routinely field 150% of their population , in votes.
LOL!
Keep groping. It's VERY entertaining.
He won’t get it.
Indeed I do.
There is only one poll that will matter in each state for the nomination cycle, and there is only one poll that will matter in each state for the general election cycle.
Nowadays, public opinion polling is riddled with holes.
For instance, this particular poll is reported as follows:
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.Apparently, the respondents weren't being asked who their candidate preference was, but rather who they (Republican voters) believed will win the GOP nomination.
Do you or anybody else really think that Ben Carson has any chance whatsoever of winning the GOP nomination?
If so, then you're as naive as these respondents apparently were.
And if not, then why are you touting this poll, which isn't even a candidate preference poll? Because you're a troll with an anti-Trump agenda, that's why!
I'd love to know how these respondents were screened.
Opinion polls can obviously be manipulated to prop up just about any notion one can imagine.
Candidate preference polls are, for pretty obvious reasons, the most cogent.
Polls which, on the other hand, ask some irrelevant touchy-feely question in a transparent attempt to foment some ludicrous meme, with the intent to obfuscate the real state of things, should rightly be dismissed by any rational person.
Anyone who can't see that Donald Trump is the clear front-runner is willfully blind at this point.
As for Ben Carson, who has absolutely no executive experience, I'm quite sorry to say that Barack 0bama has virtually guaranteed that there won't be another black President elected, conservative or liberal, for probably a generation or so. Affirmative action doesn't work too well with the Presidency, it would seem.
Parenthetically, I like italics...