Posted on 11/08/2015 8:29:36 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Donald Trump has regained some ground lost to Dr. Ben Carson, Reuters' 5-Day Rolling Poll finds. Trump now leads Carson nationally, 27.7 percent to 22.2 percent.
Marco Rubio is now at 12.3 percent, still third place in the race. Ted Cruz is fourth, 8.6 percent.
Jeb Bush is fifth with 6.7 percent of national support. Carly Fiorina is sixth with 3.8 percent, but is currently beaten by "wouldn't vote," which registers 6.1 percent support.
Chris Christie (3.5 percent), Rand Paul (2.9 percent), John Kasich (2.9 percent), Mike Huckabee (2.8 percent), and Bobby Jindal (1.3 percent) round out the GOP candidates above 1 percent.
Christie and Huckabee were dropped Thursday from the main stage of next week's debate, while Kasich and Paul maintained their positions at the primetime debate. The organizers of that debate used an aggregation of polls to determine who would be included.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Hmmmm, check this out (credit frankenMonkey)
Here are Ben Carson's own words, not from Hillary or Politico or the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Ben's own words from his Facebook posting three months ago:
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The next question is from Bill. He wanted to know if it was true that I was offered a slot at West Point after high school.
Bill, that is true. I was the highest student ROTC member in Detroit and was thrilled to get an offer from West Point.
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Nice!! Love that!
Trump can take Hillary down...after that is done, Trump can be the street fighter and go after the wall, deporting illegal immigrants, fix the deals that the past administration have messed up so bad...
Cruz can focus on the House and Senate, get some bills thru to the President's desk....help with the budget, bills for inter structure; bring back the keystone pipe line; help Trump with manufacturing jobs in America for our people...
Cruz is a good speaker, and on some things he can help Trump to get a message across, but Trump is the hammer, and the street fighter and with the two working together, we can start our Country down the ‘repair’ road to becoming the Great Nation that She is.....
Oh Please, Please, guys, when you fall off Please take Carly with you!
I support Cruz. As will most of FR when the Donald, gracefully, bows out :P
Ah, geez. Not this line, again.
If I had a $1 for EVERY time I’ve seen that....Trump will bow out, Trump’s getting out, this will do Trump in, THIS will REALLY be the end of Trump, as frontrunner....yada, yada.
So, you post nothing but anti-Trump and pro-Carson pieces, but you’re “for Cruz”. Got it. Look forward to all of your pro-Cruz posts.
Welcome to FR, btw.
“Cruz is a good speaker, and on some things he can help Trump to get a message across, but Trump is the hammer, and the street fighter and with the two working together, we can start our Country down the ‘repair’ road to becoming the Great Nation that She is....”
Excellent. Well said. I totally agree with your comment here.
I don’t think we are considering what will be happening in the future months before the election either.
For example, when Trump announced, he made very strong statements about building the wall and illegal immigration. He followed that up with a rally in Arizona, I believe, with the same strong arguments about illegal immigration.
The media went nuts and tried crucifying him for it and then Kate was murdered by an illegal that should have been deported.
All of the sudden the media had no argument. Trump was right and everyone agreed.
Another example is Christie with his Obama hug in the 2012 election. Mitt was polling high and it looked like smooth sailing. But then the hurricane hit and we saw pictures everywhere of Christie hugging Obama. I’m not saying this caused Mitt to lose but it did not help him win either.
Trump definitely has his finger on the pulse of the news cycle and I think this will help him. He will either be the first to respond to the news in a way that will help him or he will foresee the news and get on top of it.
Remember his comments about Osama Bin Laden and domestic terror in the book he wrote way before 9/11 happened.
I meant to ping you all to my post #87 to LS
I agree with both of your posts. Thanks...
No kidding
What do you find when they explore them
Not grain elevators but tombs for the formerly powerful
Some would probably want to say Clinton and the Dems are behind it. The Dems are dealing with the Reps, the Clintons leave nothing to chance.
Party machines have to deal with internal party problems and the other party problems at the same time.
By this time in 1963, JFK had two simultaneous operations on behalf of the Dems machine going that I have read about in books .
Taylor Branch in his “King Years” trilogy laid out how the Kennedy Administration ordered the FBI to spy on Martin Luther King which led to audio tapes of his sexual encounters in hotel rooms.
MLK’s civil rights protests were forcing Kennedy to move fast on racial equality, faster than he felt public opinion would allow him to. The white southernern Dems who voted for him were alienated and there was a chance that racial protests that had spread to the north, some violent, could alienate white Dems in the North.
JFK intended to contain and control MLK for the election.
After his death in early 1964 the wheels of the machine IMHO using the FBI sent King a ‘sex tape’ that his wife opened up.
Jackie Kennedy was interviewed on audio tape by historian Arthur Schlesinger in early 1964 as reported a few years back on ABC. She talked about enemies of her husband who wanted him dead. On the tape MLK is referred to as a ‘despicable man’.
For the Republicans and their presumed nominee, Barry Goldwater, JFK’s political director Kenneth O’Donnell had put the wheels in motion to create a radio monitoring operation that would tape radio shows put on by preachers and commentators who expressed political opinions supporting Goldwater and opposed to the Democrats.
Fairness Doctrine (it was FCC rules and law back then) complaints would be leveled at radio stations demanding free time on stations that depended on paid time for their existence.
It was a campaign to intimidate the radio opponents of the Dems forcing radio stations to ask the broadcasters to ‘tone it down’. It was in full operation during the 1964 general election campaign. This campaign is detailed in the book “Good Guys, Bad Guys and the First Amendment” by former CBS News President Fred Friendly.
These historical items are real enough, much more real than tin foil and in our modern age I’m certain they are repeated in new ways.
The GOP must protect its ‘brand name’ by not allowing a conservative candidate to be its nominee. It must manipulate the process to get a candidate it considers ‘electable’ at any cost.
That means Trump must be taken out and if Carson can be used to do it before he is ultimately dispatched by Rubio most likely, then that’s the way it will be done.
Not that any poll is to be believed....GO TRUMP!
Dr. Carson, you may be a very intelligent human being, but there are times when your ‘college education’ shines thru over common sense. This week WTP have seen the indications of this. This, sir, is not a slur, but only a comment as to what has been seen/heard.
My reply is this, they can try, but Trump is his own man, he's not backed by any super pacs or lobbyists, and he only answers to the American people....because that is what he is ‘AN AMERICAN’....
This is not a ‘normal’ election..this is history in the making, you have a non politician, that has never been a Representative in the House nor a Senator sitting in the Senate, or held a government position...he is his own man, and the American people are tired of the same old, same old, ‘yes we promise you the stars, the moon and beyond’ just to get your votes and then go and do what the people that gave them millions of dollars to get their seats, want them to do...people don't just give you money if there isn't something they want done..it's not done that way...
I'm not bringing up Carson or any other candidate, that's their arena, but what I am doing is bringing up my candidate and I support him 100% because he is the only one that can frustrate Hillary enough that she will loose and lose she will do....she isn't the sharpest tack in the drawer anymore....and she is being investigated for crimes that should be treasonous...people shouldn't forget that and they shouldn't forget if this was a Republican or a Conservative they would have been booted out on their butts....
Go Trump!
BTTT!!
I can just see those thought of as either Gods or going to be gods of a Pharaoh saying, hey, think I’ll make my glorified exit in that grain silo !
A Trump/Cruz ticket would be great.
Awesome post!
I’m looking forward to VP Cruz having control of the Senate and giving the RINOs hell ;)
And once Trump deports the illegals, Cruz’s unknown/lukewarm position if immigration, illegal and illegal, respectively, won’t matter. Hopefully he’ll learn how to not be beholden to donors, if that’s the cause.
“My real worry is that Republican candidates don’t dare to say that the Democrat party has been full-frontal Communist for twenty years”
True.
Although 2 came close- Trump called Sanders a socialist/communist and Cruz said the democrat debate looked like the Mensheviks vs. Bolsheviks.
Thank You....and I think Cruz is seeing his donors are wrong!!!
GO TRUMP GO!!!
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