Posted on 10/30/2015 2:22:59 PM PDT by Red Steel
After taking a battering in last month's poll, Donald Trump has re-emerged at the top of the Republican field in the latest IBD/TIPP poll.
Support for Trump among registered Republicans and those leaning Republican is 28%; support for Carson is 23%. Last month's poll had Carson up by 7 points over Trump.
Marco Rubio comes in third at 11%, the same as last month.
No other GOP candidate reached double digits. Support for Jeb Bush dropped two points to 6%; Carly Fiorina collapsed to 3% from last month's 9%. Ted Cruz held at 6%.
"Trump's support in the last poll suffered somewhat because of his nearly weeklong boycott of Fox News, which has since been lifted," said Raghavan Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, which conducts the IBD/TIPP poll. "Carson has recently been under more scrutiny by both the media and other candidates."
Mayur added, "Though our latest poll shows Trump leading Carson, the poll's margin of error of +/- five points means that Trump and Carson are still running a close race."
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Are you by any chance supporting that candidate who wants to increase chap foreign workers on H1-B visa’s five fold? That will hurt my recent college graduate kids and their friends more than anything else any other candidate is proposing.
I can never support any candidate who is for importing more foreign workers with close to 95 million American citizens without jobs. And unless the candidate is for deporting ALL illegals, he/she is no-go for me. I don’t care if he/she is more conservative than Attila the Hun on other issues.
I think that other outlier poll showing Carson leading had a very small sample (aprox 275) with 6% MOE.
Get ready for hand to hand combat with the rich donor class , who will fight Trump until the 2016 GOP Convention in Cleveland, OH. All other candidates can be bought. But they can not buy Trump. If it is Trump versus Hillary in November, the rich donor class will favor Hillary, because she can be bought.
Clear as Mud Politics listed the Carson outlier IDB/TIPP poll last month. Let’s see if they do it again with this one. So far, RCP are slow leaking it.
Someone should let ME-Gyn Kelly know too.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
It is most definitely Trump. So you don’t have a candidate. Good to know.
I didn’t even really start to think about Reuters and some of the others having these fluctuating samples, but I think that does explain a lot . . . except IA.
Sorry, no such thing as a battering in a fabricated poll. Fin.
Yes TRump top! I want CRUZ beside him!
What is going on with these polls!
When was this taken?
The “Trumpies” don’t feel compelled to call others names. That seems to be an affliction of those suffering from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
Iowa is unique primary. Historically about 5% of voters participate in caucus. Low budget candidates can win Iowa with lot of leg work. Example: Santorum in 2012. Iowa has not been a good indicator of national primaries.
In my opinion, summary of first 4 primaries is a much better indicator. (IA, NH, SC, NV)
Then comes super Tuesday (12 states). Results here pretty much will determine the eventual winner.
Carson is a nothingburger what imbeciles would vote for him
TDS is strong in you walker lost get over it, Paul Ryan sucks to all from Wisconsin a blue state of libtardness
Trump is growing on me. If he can prove that he will solve the border problem, he’ll get my vote.
Dr. Carson is a very nice man, but not one of presidential stature.
Why does Cruz remind me of Nixon?
RealClearPolitics added this poll moving down that New York Times junk poll that sat at the top all week long.
Well, it’s not possible to prove that he’ll solve the border problem unless we can look into the future.
Trump is, however, the only candidate really campaigning on it and treating it seriously. Much as I like Cruz, he’s too squishy on illegals for me, and the whole handing out stuff to illegals fiasco makes me hesitate.
On top of that, one has to follow the money. There are lots of big donors out there who REALLY want lots of illegal invaders, and they’ll only give their support to candidates who will give them what they want: cheap labor and open borders. And if a candidate DOESN’T kowtow to that demand, the donor campaign money will fly away off to the other side.
So a principled candidate can’t be elected, and an unprincipled candidate won’t change anything.
Trump, on the other hand, can’t be bought. At least not by the cheap labor donors. If he only wanted more money than the billions he already has, he wouldn’t be running for President or funding his own campaign.
So, in my opinion and as far as I can tell, the only candidate in the race who even MIGHT secure the border is Trump. And I’ll take a ‘maybe’ over a ‘no’ any day.
“Though our latest poll shows Trump leading Carson, the poll’s margin of error of +/- five points means that Trump and Carson are still running a close race.”
In your dreams, sparky.
That could also be read as:
Trump 33 % (+5)
Carson 18 % (-5)
Your right - and the rest of America is wrong ... Uh-huh, got it. Carry on.
Yes, much likely closer to this. Trump has almost the whole media complex and political world against him, and they will do almost anything to see him defeated.
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