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.
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I watched the town hall and the rally in Iowa today online (the former from a Des Moines TV station and the latter on YouTube). Trump did say to two different questioners that he could support windmill subsidies but then went off on how expensive and uncompetitive they are and I got the impression he didn’t care for them as an energy source. So I ended up being a little confused about his actual personal position on this overall.
However, to his credit, I would like to point out that several questioners today tried to push him to promise to make the government give them things, and he refused. One man wanted him to have the government help pay for college training for needed workers in unfilled jobs. A woman wanted him to get the government to provide child care to working mothers, and there were a couple other questions like this.
On all of these, Trump stood his ground and didn’t pander to them, but talked about the problems of extra regulations and government involvement and suggested private companies like his should do more themselves (rather than the government). Eventually, during the Town Hall, Trump even said that maybe they should have gotten Bernie Sanders to speak to them instead (which I thought was pretty funny).
What you said is quite true. :-)
You're approaching troll territory.
Oh, they could...but it would end the party. The base is fed up.
And that the differences in support are statistically insignificant with a MOE +/- 4.5?
Mexico will never write a check to the US for a new wall.
Trump will squeeze it out of them in a trade deal then say *See, it*s beautiful. It*s a beautiful thing. The upside of this deal is that it will pay for the wall. Mexico paid for the wall*.
Yea how dare he wanting to stop the murderous spread of Muslim terrorism.
3 words: Murdoch hates Trump.
But Trump was smart enough to trademark it. Otherwise we would see other people we know walking around with it.
Why are leftists always promising to eat things and/or move to France?
We accept converts.
Reuters is left-wing.
1 word: ratings.
So is the Guardian. That doesn’t mean either one of them cares enough about who the Republicans nominate to fabricate polling data.
All polls fabricate data. Some more than others.
Why would the media in another country fabricate poll standings to favor one republican over another? Are you telling me that London Guardian deliberately fabricates false data to alter the polling status between, say, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio? What motivation can you argue for them doing that?
All the media are biased, including UK.
I picked up a copy of the Economist a few weeks ago and there were five separate anti-Trump stories.
When Trump first entered the race, there were people saying “Let it play itself out,” thinking that he would self-destruct. That was as close to neutral as anyone got. No one is saying that anymore, and no one is neutral, as far as I can see.
Only now are the media turning against Obama, as the truth becomes widely known about ISIS, and that may eventually lead to some of them being pro-Trump. Basically they are using him to sell magazines and enhance thier sorry ratings.
Can you people bring up something other than the Pam Geller thing? I think a lot of people agree with him in the sense that she did what she did to provoke. Move on, Sir.
All Trump needs to say is, Tax on remittances. Then Mexico says, To whom to we make the check out?
I don’t disagree with what you say, although we are in such a mess it’s going to take some good “governing” to get us out of it. Trump, has a plan the evolves us into a different nation. You just don’t turn the keys over to the kids when their on learner permits.
I see where he’s for term limits, sending much of the issues to the states to decides, strong military and borders.
Match him with Cruz and they’ll both learn. I think if Trump were not in the race, they would have buried Cruz months ago, same as Romney did to Newt.
Trump is the bull in the china shop, but he’s not stupid.
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