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Donald Trump Could Win the Republican Nomination in a Blowout
Baltimore Post-Examiner ^ | Willis Dahl

Posted on 11/19/2015 10:51:17 AM PST by BigEdLB

Donald Trump is looking increasingly likely to win the Republican nomination in 2016 – and it may not even be close.

Four months after being widely dismissed as a celebrity candidate who would wither under scrutiny, Trump isn’t just defying political gravity. He’s powering past it as he expands his leads in both national polls and critical early voting states.

A new Reuters poll conducted mostly after the November 13 attacks in Paris found Trump with more than double the support of his nearest rival nationally, taking 36 percent of Republican primary voters to Ben Carson’s 14.6 percent. A Morning Consult poll released Tuesday showed the billionaire with an even loftier lead, polling 38 percent to Carson’s 19 percent as Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz languished in the single digits.

A University of Massachusetts survey released Monday shows a closer contest – but Donald Trump still manages to outpoll the fading Ben Carson by nine points.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimorepostexaminer.com ...


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To: kygolfman; EternalVigilance
OWCH!!! Trump donated to Jimmy Carter against Reagan!! Okay, it was a long time ago; 2008 was pretty recent, however, and EV linked an article I'd seen earlier where Trump himself talked about how he supported Obama back then.

I saw another link where Trump chastised Pam Geller for taunting Muslims, and yet another where pretty recently he voiced his support for ethanol subsidies.

And I found links on my own that prove the was the FOLLOWER and Ted Cruz the LEADER in the Syrian Refugee issue -- Trump didn't start to voice hesitation as to accepting them here until AFTER Cruz stated clearly that we should avoid Syrian refugees in the U.S. because of the danger they pose, back on Sept. 9; Trump is on record the very day before as saying we just have to take some of them because it's the humanitarian thing to do!

Seven years of a national TV show promoting himself as a genius has worked its magic on a lot of Trump supporters. He is indeed a brilliant self-promoting businessman and I truly believe a sincere patriot. But Jimmy Carter and Dan Rather were sincere patriots, too.

Man. What is it going to take to wake people up that Trump is just Arnold Schwarzenegger on a national scale?

101 posted on 11/19/2015 12:52:31 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Duchess47

He did, but those suffering from severe TDS post lies, because reality is too painful for them to accept.


102 posted on 11/19/2015 12:53:24 PM PST by nopardons
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To: sparklite2
Reuters as a "news organization" has a pretty bad bias. You don't think so??

Why would a non-US news agency care who wins the Republican nomination?

Okay, you won't answer my question. I'm going to assume the answer is "no".

I think news organization have a long track record of being biased and I think foreign governments have an obvious interest in who gets elected on our country.

103 posted on 11/19/2015 12:57:17 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: miss marmelstein
Trump lives free in Medved's mind.

He's built a 30 story condo in Bill Bennett's, and he's living in the penthouse.


104 posted on 11/19/2015 12:58:08 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Finny
Trump donated to Jimmy Carter against Reagan!!

Reagan was a New Deal Democrat at one point.


105 posted on 11/19/2015 12:59:07 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: JediJones
Meanwhile Ann Coulter tweeted after the attack that Trump had "won the election today."

Even though Trump hadn't started talking about being hesitant (that's all, just that the U.S. should "be careful") in accepting Syrian refugees until -- what an incredible coincidence!!! -- the same day (Sept. 9) that Ted Cruz declared that we should halt them coming here because they pose a danger -- and Trump was ON RECORD the day before (Sept. 8) saying that we just had to take in at least some Syrian refugees because it was the humanitarian thing to do!

Coulter has betrayed conservatism many times. Beware.

106 posted on 11/19/2015 1:03:08 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Reagan also had served a solid apprenticeship to politics and statesmanship before running for president.

Trump has only ever been a businessman and a showman; he now is switching careers to politician and statesman with ZERO job experience in that field, yet aspires to get the top political job in the U.S. and arguably the world.

107 posted on 11/19/2015 1:05:33 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: GeronL

Medication can be taken for TDS.


108 posted on 11/19/2015 1:06:00 PM PST by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: FreeReign

So now reuters is a foreign government.

I’m reminded of a poster on another forum
who, in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon
incident, said Al Qeada must have been
pulling the strings. When someone objected
that the guy looked too Western, he said
they must have trained him to walk with a
western gait.

My point is that no one wastes resources on
such trivia as pushing the results of a poll
in another country. The return on investment
is not there, while their credibility could
be at risk.


109 posted on 11/19/2015 1:07:24 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Medved says that the Dems attack Trump because they want to run against him. Medved went on to talk about stolen strawberries.


110 posted on 11/19/2015 1:08:15 PM PST by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Oh, really?!!! Yeah, he’s way too much for dainty Republicans.


111 posted on 11/19/2015 1:08:55 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: BigEdLB

He’s on my radio now - I can hear him clicking his steel balls.


112 posted on 11/19/2015 1:09:33 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: nopardons; kygolfman; GeronL
Both Trump and his father SUPPORTED Reagan ....

You may be correct, so why not link to as credible a source as kygolfman uses in his post #80 to prove it?

113 posted on 11/19/2015 1:10:35 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: nopardons

Post links to prove your claim that Trump supported Reagan. Thanks.


114 posted on 11/19/2015 1:11:19 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: BigEdLB; GeronL
Medication can be taken for TDS.

The behavior of a candidate's supporters speaks volumes about the candidate.

Big Ed, you're making Trump look bad.

115 posted on 11/19/2015 1:13:12 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: BigEdLB

Fox news with theoretical Trump hangups included would be: Trump 34 Rubio 12 Cruz 10 Carson 8 Bush 8. Morning Consult’s actual NH Poll yesterday - Trump 33 Carson 15 Cruz 9 Rubio 9 Bush 5


116 posted on 11/19/2015 1:13:39 PM PST by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: Finny

Trump lives in your brain...


117 posted on 11/19/2015 1:14:48 PM PST by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: GeronL

It’s not fascist to impose controls on Islam, any more than it was fascist to control, indeed make illegal, communism during the cold war. Islam is an ideology bent on world conquest.


118 posted on 11/19/2015 1:14:50 PM PST by Defiant (I wouldn't have to mansplain if it weren't for all those wymidiots.)
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To: Finny
I don't/can'/t post links and never have; in all my 17 + years here.

And a ,lot of links that ARE posted, are incorrect...but you swallow them with glee.

119 posted on 11/19/2015 1:15:20 PM PST by nopardons
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To: GeronL

Do you have enough Rolaids on hand after reading the headline news in this post?


120 posted on 11/19/2015 1:15:54 PM PST by entropy12 (Not DEPORTING ALL illegals is defacto Amnesty to illegals.)
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