Posted on 10/20/2015 1:40:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Have you seen the latest polling data? There's a couple of polls out. One of them is in Florida. And this is a poll that has upended a lot of people. This is a University of North Florida statewide poll of Republican primary likely voters. This is the home state of Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. Donald Trump's at 22%, Ben Carson at 19%, Marco Rubio at 15%, and Jeb Bush is at 9%.
Asked to name their second choice, 20.1% said Rubio, 14.9% said Carson, 11.1% said Fiorina. Trump was the second choice of 6% of -- (interruption) yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm getting to that. Just hang tough. People are shouting, "What about what W said about Cruz?" Just hang in there. We're coming to that. How great it would be, the first monologue of this segment do all three hours and go home. I haven't figured out how to do that yet. But, boy, yeah, if I could say everything I wanted to say in 15 minutes, I'd be the first one on that bus.
At any rate, this news is incomprehensible to the establishment leaders of the Republican Party. They can't figure this out, Jeb Bush, Jeb and Marco together ought to own this state, Trump moving in there as an outsider at 22%.
We have the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. "Donald Trump and Ben Carson continue to broaden their appeal among Republican primary voters and have widened their lead over former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and many other more-experienced candidates." That is the Wall Street Journal version. The NBC News version: "Real estate mogul Donald Trump remains the front-runner in the Republican presidential field, while former neurosurgeon Ben Carson holds a close second place, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows. With the backing of 25 percent of Republican primary voters, Trump is at his highest level of support in the poll since entering the 2016 race." Highest level of support since entering the race in this poll. "Ben Carson now gets the support of 22 percent of Republican voters, remaining within the margin of error of his first-place rival. Last month, 21 percent of GOP primary voters said Trump was their first choice for the party’s nomination, while 20 percent picked Carson." So Trump is up four; Carson is up one.
"The new poll, which surveyed respondents from Oct. 15 to Sunday, saw a slight dip in support for former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina, who fell from 11 percent last month to 7 percent." That's more than a slight dip. She's ditched here out of double digits. "While Trump leads when GOP primary voters are asked about their first choice for the party’s nomination, Carson boasts the highest share of voters who say they can see themselves supporting him." So Trump number one with 25%, but then the same people, okay, who's your second choice if your guy doesn't get it? Ben Carson runs away with everybody's second choice, and Trump is 6% as everybody's second choice.
Now, I want to remind you what we've been hearing from the establishment all of this time, that Trump -- in fact, they said Trump peaked about a month ago. There was one poll, kind of an outlier poll, which showed Trump had lost a point and a half or two points -- and another poll that showed Trump even -- and the establishment was getting all hot and bothered. "All right!" That's what they're saying. "This is cool! This is what we knew was gonna happen. Trump's leveling off. Trump's peaked. Trump is only downhill from here!" Do you know that Donald Trump has been number one in the polls for more days than are remaining until the Hawkeye Cauci?
I know a lot of FReepers hate Rush but Ive always found him to be on target. He is about the only one in the airways that is telling the truth about Trump. Id bet Trump listens to him daily.
There are Freepers that hate Rush? What?
GOOD THING THEY ALL SIGNED LOYALTY OATHS TO SUPPORT WHOEVER WON, EH?
| Poll | Date |
Trump
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Carson
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Rubio
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Cruz
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Bush
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Fiorina
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Huckabee
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Paul
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Christie
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Kasich
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Santorum
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Jindal
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Graham
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Pataki
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Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 10/4 - 10/18 | 26.2 | 21.2 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 7.0 | 5.6 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | Trump +5.0 |
| CNN/ORCCNN/ORC | 10/14 - 10/17 | 27 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Trump +5 |
| NBC/WSJNBC/WSJ | 10/15 - 10/18 | 25 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Trump +3 |
| MonmouthMonmouth | 10/15 - 10/18 | 28 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Trump +10 |
GOPe getting trounced, as well they should.
Santorum is crushing Graham, 0.6 to 0.4.
I predict Trump will stop running for POTUS right after his reelection in 2020.
I wonder who Carsen is?
That idiot said he is not going out and his poll numbers are climbing.
The druggies do.
Man, his figures must have been worse than I realized. = :^)
LOL!
Actually, that is crushing, isn’t it? Correct me if I am wrong, but to move from 0.4 to 0.6 is an increase of 50%.
So Graham is truly being crushed by a guy who hasn’t been in office for almost a decade.
60-40 is huge in politics.
I wish it were like that for his South Carolina Senate seat. I’d take a Democrat just to rid of him.
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