(September) South Carolina Polling Results (Trump 29 Carson 16 Fiorino 11 Cruz 8 Bush 6)

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/Gravis_SC_Sept_25_27_2015.pdf ^ | September 25, 2015 | Gravis

[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

Trump 29 Carson 16 Fiorino Cruz 8 Rubio 8 Bush 6 Kasich 4

[MichaelCorleone]

“So we could say she’s Cara Carleton Sneed Bartlem Fiorina.”

You sure did you homework there!

[kvanbrunt2]

How many crossover states? and what republican dumba$$ went along with that arrangement.

[PJ-Comix]

But...but the narrative from the MSM now is that we have reached Peak Trump.

[PJ-Comix]

The history of most modern presidential elections (with no incumbent) is that the early front-runners considered inevitable almost never make it.

TAFT '52!!!

[MeshugeMikey]

was she perhaps married at some point?

[ConservativeTeen]

Can you add me to the Ted Cruz Ping List, thanks.

[Windflier]

The history of most modern presidential elections (with no incumbent) is that the early front-runners considered inevitable almost never make it.

Quite true, but there's been a sea change in American politics and the electorate in the last decade. The American populace is like a vast dry prairie, just waiting for the right spark to set off a conflagration that will wipe everything clean.

Already, Trump's performance in this race is turning 'conventional wisdom' on its head, and he's stymieing the best minds in the business. So far, he's broken just about every established rule of presidential politics, and has not only gotten away with it each time, he's actually grown stronger.

This election is unlike any we've seen in our lifetimes. The only way to understand it, is to throw out the well-worn textbooks, and apply logic and reason to it. Therein lie the answers.

[Windflier]

History has been turned on it’s head. The two frontrunners have never held political office.

I should'a pinged ya to my post #49. I just ran down that exact line of thinking.

GMTA!

[SMM48]

No, I don’t think he’s going to bounce back. I’m worried the RNC is going to change some rule or pull some other crap. They want Yeb and I see them pulling every trick in the book to make it happen.

[Windflier]

You can just feel the lack of support for Bush whenever Trump bashes him.

You can also see it in Jeb's rally attendance figures (if you can even call 'em that). He routinely draws 'crowds' of a couple dozen to nearly a hundred.

I'm sorry, but that sort of turn-out wouldn't even peg the bored-o-meter if his name wasn't Bush. Quite frankly, the guy's entire candidacy is completely manufactured. The voting base has practically zero interest in him.

[Windflier]

I’m worried the RNC is going to change some rule or pull some other crap. They want Yeb and I see them pulling every trick in the book to make it happen.

The RNC is already doing that, but it won't help unless every other candidate drops out. That is realistically Jeb's only path to the nomination.

[Impy]

Graham: negative 2%

[Salamander]

[Salamander]

[Republican Wildcat]

That’s perfectly legitimate...but you started the conversation by attacking her for changing her last name after marriage and going by a derivative of her middle name and saying she was being “dishonest” about her name. That’s what was being responded to - not her associations with McCain and her track record.

[Republican Wildcat]

Rubio not going anywhere but down.

Yes, indeed. When are you are 3% in the prior poll and then go to 8%, that's certainly a sign of decline.

[grania]

Check my #17

[stephenjohnbanker]

Post #49 was a great piece of writing.

It explained in detail, albeit more eloquently , what I was thinking.