Posted on 11/02/2015 3:56:03 PM PST by CaptainK
Ben Carson has surged into the lead of the Republican presidential race, getting support from 29 percent of GOP primary voters, according to a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
That's the highest percentage any GOP candidate has obtained so far in the survey.
Carson's 29 percent is followed by Donald Trump at 23 percent, Marco Rubio at 11 percent, Ted Cruz at 10 percent and Jeb Bush at 8 percent. These findings are similar to a New York Times/CBS poll released last week, which also showed Carson in first place in the national GOP contest.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Actually, come to think of it, this is good news for Trump because of all those people who want to cite November and December polls and say, “But those guys never win.”
The News Organs who hate Trump WSJ Murdock/NBC Telemundo and who are at war with Trump, and it reflects in their polling. Sure thang, I’ll run to Vegas with this poll LoL.
NBC/WSJ: The worst of both worlds. Ole Ruppert Murdoch is busy at the WSJ trying to derail Trump.
Fueled by Democrat crossovers who will be voting Democrat in the general election.
Another thread just posted shows Trump ahead again in Iowa.
What happened to the Carson surge there?
Probably the same that will happen with this poll in a while. Manipulated numbers inflated to fit the narrative.
I don’t see it. Not a Trump fan, but I haven’t met anyone with any interest in Carson. And Carson’s performance in the debate seems unlikely to have improved his standing significantly. If it did, I cannot imagine what it was. He seemed...limp. It would be like sending overcooked spaghetti into battle.
I am not a Trumpie, but my opinion of NBC/WSJ polls is pretty low. So, I am of the wait & see mindset at this point.
I do have a very conservative cousin in her 80s who is rooting for Carson. And yes, she still has all her marbles.
It’s all marketing, right?
I can’t find the internals. Can anyone else?
It does have an error margin of +/- 4.9%. That is pretty high compared to others.
I know. Again, raising the question is it leading or lagging state polls? Is this residue of last week’s Carson boomlet that started in the IA state polls? If so, will it fade as his lead in the IA state polls disappeared?
No disrespect to Dr. Carson but I find this very hard to believe. There’s an agenda in this poll somewhere.
CNBC Execs in the Tank for Hillary
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | November 2, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 11/2/2015, 2:49:33 PM by Kaslin
RUSH: Folks, what did I tell you? Not that you needed to be told, by the way, so patently obvious. Here we go from Breitbart: “CNBC Debate Executive Worked in the Clinton White House for Al Gore.” What did I tell you? The very next day I said these are hit people. These are people from the Clinton campaign that ran that CNBC debate. No matter where you go in the media you’re gonna run into Clinton hacks. Stephanopoulos is over at ABC, they’re everywhere. They’re at CNN. Cuomo is over there at CNN. You’ve got people over at CNBC.
This guy, his name is Brian Steel, senior vice president of communications, CNBC, the second highest ranking network official at Wednesday night’s debate described by an insider as the “executive on hand” for the debate. He worked in the Bill Clinton White House as a domestic policy advisor to Algore. His White House gig was just one of three jobs he held in the Clinton administration.
These Clinton hacks are everywhere, and they go from government to media. They’re at CBS, ABC, NBC. They’re at CNN, CNBC, MSNBC. They’re everywhere, and the CNBC debate, exactly as I told you, the whole thing put together, planned, and orchestrated by Clinton war room hacks.
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RUSH: Not only that, but the wife — ready for this? — the wife of the CNBC debate executive who had three different jobs in the Clinton White House, is a Hillary Clinton donor. “The CNBC executive who oversaw the catastrophic Republican presidential debate in Colorado is married to a Hillary Clinton 2016 donor. Breitbart News reported that CNBC vice president of communications Brian Steel was the ‘executive on hand’ at Wednesday night’s debate ... is married to Eileen Libutti, managing partner at New York City’s Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles LLP law firm. Libutti donated $2,700 to Hillary For America on June 23, just four months before the CNBC debate.”
Of course, this is not a surprise. I’m just confirming. These are not journalists in any way, shape, manner, or form. They’re hacks. They’re party hacks disguised as journalists or disguised as lawyers, disguised as think tank analysts and senior fellows and whatever the heck else. No shock, surprise whatsoever.
The Republican campaigns have agreed to cut the Republican National Committee out of the debate process and instead negotiate directly with the networks. Well, fine and dandy. You’re still negotiating with Clinton hacks. I mean, even after this, it’s like I told you after the CNBC debate, all these stories about how embarrassed everybody was and how negative the coverage seemed to be, don’t kid yourself. They look at this as mission accomplished. Because the questions were what were important, the questions were the bullets, the questions were the attacks. The answers were incidental. The questions were designed to explain to the viewers who these Republicans are. The questions were what was used to be destructive.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3355656/posts
I know one Carson supporter. Her reason, he’s such a nice man.
No one has ever given policy reasons to support Carson. He is wrong on every major issue.
His supporters seem mythological, like unicorns.
NBC is trying to make it so - they have drastically cut back on their Trump coverage, from what I see.
Every poll has Trump ahead except NBC, Truth in journalism
Agreed.
WSJ Murdock NBC/Telemundo all Trump haters. Averages out to only 8 people polled per state. I doubt this poll is worth the RGB dot screen matrix it is written on.
Junk poll. LSM garbage. Other (real) polls say otherwise.
NBC?
Hardy-har-har
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