Asked Saturday by the Globe specifically if he would drop out of the race for president if he didn't qualify for the main-stage GOP debate, Paul said: "We will make an announcement, on that, on Tuesday." - Source
After spending beaucoup dinero Bush’s numbers are embarrassing.
If I were Bush I’d pay the family doc to say I had a serious, but curable, disease and drop out for health reasons, don’t ya know.
Old news.
This is the same polling firm that had Santorum polling at 6% just before he won the last Iowa caucus.
Yea Iowa is a strange state-— first it was Huckabee then Carson— and in between it has been Trump, now it is Cruz....I think Santorum won last election cycle... It wouldn’t surprise me if he ended up winning again in Iowa.. haha
Oh please, it is from the Des Moines Register,you really are scraping the bottom of the poll.
Saw somewhere the latest CNN poll had Trump at 32 or 33, cruz at 20.
Trump’s supporters have agreed to let Cruz be Trump’s Vice President. Very generous.
Donald warned us about the Des Moines Register this morning:
https://youtu.be/RB0B1Y7YIeA?t=3788
Is he psychic? Did he have advance warning? It will be interesting to see the polls over the next week.
Seeing is believing. He called them HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE, and very DISHONEST.the crowd totally agreed
| the Numbers | |||||||||
| Among likely Republican caucus goers | |||||||||
| Carson | Cruz | Rubio | Trump | Not Sure | |||||
| Would be best at managing the economy | 7 | 24 | 10 | 50 | 8 | ||||
| Would do the most to solve the illegal immigration problem | 5 | 22 | 15 | 50 | 8 | ||||
| Knows the most about how to get things done | 6 | 22 | 13 | 49 | 10 | ||||
| Would be the best at reducing the federal deficit | 6 | 27 | 10 | 48 | 10 | ||||
| Can best combat Islamic terrorism | 5 | 32 | 13 | 35 | 16 | ||||
| Would be best at dealing with Vladimir Putin | 10 | 31 | 13 | 34 | 13 | ||||
| Has the best chance of beating Hillary Clinton | 11 | 26 | 20 | 30 | 14 | ||||
| Would make the best commander in chief | 12 | 34 | 18 | 25 | 11 | ||||
| Has the most appropriate life experience to be president | 10 | 34 | 19 | 24 | 13 | ||||
| Cares the most about people like you | 24 | 28 | 19 | 17 | 12 | ||||
| Has the right values to lead the nation | 22 | 34 | 18 | 16 | 10 | ||||
| Would work most effectively with Congress | 18 | 31 | 29 | 12 | 10 | ||||
| Has the best temperament to be president | 23 | 24 | 25 | 11 | 7 | ||||
| Would do the most to make all abortion illegal | 23 | 32 | 7 | 6 | 32 | ||||
| 182 | 401 | 229 | 407 | 174 | |||||
| All other things being equal, which of the following | |||||||||
| is a more attractive candidate for president at this time: | |||||||||
| 39 | A government outsider who has handled | ||||||||
| complex issues and managed teams | |||||||||
| 30 | A U.S. senator, who has involvement with national | ||||||||
| security and international relations and diplomatic issues | |||||||||
| 19 | A governor, who has worked with a legislature and | ||||||||
| who has been responsible for balancing a budget | |||||||||
| 12 | Not sure | ||||||||
| Which one of the following Republicans would be | |||||||||
| your first choice for president? | |||||||||
| And who would your second choice be? | |||||||||
| If Uncommitted or not sure in first choice question, | |||||||||
| code second choice | |||||||||
| as no first choice and do not ask. | |||||||||
| FIRST | SECOND | COMBINED | |||||||
| Cruz, Ted | 31 | 20 | 51 | ||||||
| Trump Donald | 21 | 14 | 35 | ||||||
| Carson, Ben | 13 | 14 | 27 | ||||||
| Rubio, Marco | 10 | 14 | 24 | ||||||
| Bush, Jeb | 6 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| Christie, Chris | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||
| Huckabee, Mike | 3 | 5 | 8 | ||||||
| Paul, Rand | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||
| Kasich, John | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Fiorina, Carley | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Santorum, Rick | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Gilmore, Jim | - | - | - | ||||||
| Graham, Linda | - | - | - | ||||||
| Pataki, George | - | - | - | ||||||
| Not Sure | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Uncomitted | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| No First Choice | 7 | ||||||||
The real nightmare is that Trump doesn’t get the nomination, runs as an independent, splits the right, and Hillary gets elected.
If that happens, say, “Bye Bye America.”
In case you missed them in your uncontrolled excitement.
Same fallacy, different titles.
Cruz surges 85 posts
Shock poll426 posts
Cruz jumps 21 points173 posts
Cruz catapults to top67 posts
If Trump wins IA it’s over nomination wise. If Cruz wins who knows. I admire btw guys. I think Trump is far more capable of winning blue dogs (lol) etc. Cruz is probably too religious for a lot of ppl. But hey, spoil of riches for us.
None of the polls we are seeing are worth the media on which they are displayed. This poll in particular should immediately be labeled as an outlier because it so contradicts ALL other polls.
There can be no reason for this sudden change in Trumps popularity. Some will point to his statement to ban Muslims but we see polls which support his idea Now I know I said polls cannot be trusted but still it doesn’t mean ALL are wrong. What is important is to consider the aggregate of the polling. When this us done this latest Iowa poll, paid for by Bloomberg who is a rabid Trump hater gets put in a better perspective.
Full disclosure. I Like trump AND Cruz and would be satisfied with either as our nominee.
“Cruz’s ascension represents the largest spike for one candidate between Des Moines Register polls in at least the last five presidential elections.”
This is enough to make the poll results suspect, imo.
Another thought. Because there is such strong evidence Americans have turned anti establishment and want an outsider this time the Left would like to remove the one outsider who seems to have a chance. If successful they can paint Cruz as simply another “inside the beltway” pol (just like Clinton).
Personally I believe this is nothing but an attempt to discourage Trump voters and play on the natural desire for folks to be on the winning side which according to this poll is now Cruz. The fact stories began appearing a few days ago about the accuracy and grand history of this particular pollster are to me nothing more than the laying of the groundwork to give this pollster credibility before the results were released.
These are strictly my opinions and I have to believe the candidates do their own polling as well. None of them to date have mentioned this so for now all we have is this one outlier poll (relative to all other polling) and we will simply have to wait and see.
Good morning.
“Des Moines Register poll “
That rag hates Trump and all Republicans.
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