Posted on 11/27/2015 1:23:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump's support among Republicans has dropped 12 points in less than a week, marking the real estate mogul's biggest decline since he vaulted to the top of the field in July, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Trump was the favorite of 31 percent of Republicans in a rolling poll in the five days ended on Nov. 27. That was down from a peak of 43 percent registered on Nov. 22.
The dip follows criticism of Trump for comments he made in the aftermath of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more.
Following the attacks, Trump told an NBC News reporter that he would support requiring all Muslims within the United States to be registered to a special database, which his critics have likened to the mandatory registration of Jews in Nazi Germany.
Trump has also been criticized for flailing his arms and distorting his speech as he mocked a New York Times reporter, Serge Kovaleski, who is disabled.
Trump mocked the reporter as he defended his unsubstantiated assertion that during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, he watched on television as "thousands and thousands" of people in New Jersey cheered while the World Trade Center fell.
Still, Trump is not the only front-runner to slide in the latest survey.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has seen his poll numbers drift downward and now trails Trump by more than half, with just 15 percent of Republicans polled saying they would vote for him in the same Nov. 27 poll. As recently as late October, Carson trailed Trump by only six points.
Following Carson, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruz are tied for third place, with more than 8 percent each.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I understand that and in all fairness I am not sure that the Reuters poll means much. I have thought that it showed an artificially high number for Trump for a long time. We will simply have to see if the Trump falling trend is repeated in other polls. I certainly hope so because I hate to think that so many supposed conservatives care nothing for civil rights or having a president who doesn’t mock his opponents like a teenage mean girl.
no sir , been there , done that . Now days I spend my time sharpening my sword
There is really little point to discussing propaganda. It is a matter of practice, not of theory.
One cannot determine theoretically whether one propaganda is better than another.
Rather, that propaganda is good that has the desired results, and that propaganda is bad that does not lead to the desired results.
It does not matter how clever it is, for the task of propaganda is not to be clever, its task is to lead to success.
I therefore avoid theoretical discussions about propaganda, for there is no point to it.
Propaganda shows that it is good if over a certain period it can win over and fire up people for an idea.
If it fails to do so, it is bad propaganda.
If propaganda wins the people it wanted to win, it was presumably good, and if not, it was presumably bad.
No one can say that your propaganda is too crude or low or brutal, or that it is not decent enough, for those are not the relevant criteria.
Its purpose is not to be decent, or gentle, or weak, or modest; it is to be successful.
-Joe Goebbels
President Trump... because he ain’t them.
the anti-Trump polls
believe the boots on the ground, We are here
in our growing millions upon millions
and the day of reckoning is about to soon come .
If you look at the “likely” Republican voters, Trump’s support actually spikes up from 28 percent to 35 percent, while the “Republican” in its broadest is still staying above 30 percent, although it has dipped, and which tends to go up and down quite a bit anyway. Republican in its broadest category even shows Ben Carson leaping up 4 or 5 points back into second place, which, if true, basically guarantees Trump’s continued dominance. Carson will never oust Trump.
<< “Who answers polls on Thanksgiving? >> ——
LEFTISTS.
You raise the perfect question. Leftists despise Thanksgiving, American pie and football, and live to shop rage and protest on the next day.
November 27, 2015
Likely GOP Primary Voters:
Businessman Donald Trump 35.0%
Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio 14.0%
Tex. Sen. Ted Cruz 13.0%
Former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush 11.0%
Surgeon and author Ben Carson 10.0%
Ohio Gov. John Kasich 5.8%
Former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee 4.0%
Former Sen. candidate and business executive Carly Fiorina 3.6%
NJ Gov. Chris Christie 1.6%
Ken. Sen. Rand Paul 1.1%
Former NY Gov. George Pataki 0.9%
Wouldn’t vote 0.5%
Former Penn. Sen. Rick Santorum—%
Former Va. Gov. Jim Gilmore—%
La. Gov. Bobby Jindal—%
SC Sen. Lindsey Graham—%
Yes. Trump does follow the polls. But when ONE poll, from a questionable source, polling a piddling number of nondescript individuals of the Lord only knows what persuasion; I’m confident he takes it with a wheelbarrow load of salt.
Media biased title is total B/S.
Reuters polling as of Nov 27:
Businessman Donald Trump 30.0%
Wouldn’t vote 22.9%
Surgeon and author Ben Carson 10.7%
Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio 5.7%
Former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush 5.3%
Tex. Sen. Ted Cruz 5.0%
Ohio Gov. John Kasich 3.8%
NJ Gov. Chris Christie 3.7%
Former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee 3.5%
Ken. Sen. Rand Paul 2.4%
Former Sen. candidate and business executive Carly Fiorina 2.3%
Former Va. Gov. Jim Gilmore 2.1%
Former NY Gov. George Pataki 1.1%
Former Penn. Sen. Rick Santorum 1.1%
SC Sen. Lindsey Graham 0.3%
La. Gov. Bobby Jindal —%
http://polling.reuters.com/#!poll/TR130
Civil rights are highly overrated.
But...but, Cruz is surging at 8.
Heck of a drop for Trump, and yet you still lap the field. LOL! This is too much FUN!
The polls are up and down at this point. It’s hard to say why. Are folks’ opinions that fluid? Is the up and down just statistical noise? Are external events changing voter opinions? How valid are current polls? Are high rates of non-response and subsequent self-selection issues ruining the methodological validity?
All things, I’d say it’s likely at this point, trump has about 30%, Cruz has around 15% -20%, and Rubio is at close to those levels, or a little less. Carson is in the middle of a long-term decline. There are no other candidates.
Could it be that Trump’s antics are getting old with the voters? The Reuters poll imo isn’t that accurate, but if he’s taken a hit in a poll where he was once at 42%, something has to be going on.
Holiday polling nonsense and Reuters knows it.
Thank you for posting that link. Great news.
I am sticking with Trump. He is going to win this thing. And shame on the nasty Cruz supporters for being happy about it. Carson is second. Got it?
If Trump goes down, your guy is next and it will be YOUR fault.
Must mean Trump supporters all went to Carson!
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