Posted on 12/18/2015 5:22:48 AM PST by GonzoII
Trump Leads Across All Polling Methodologies:Live Telephone, IVR and Online
WASHINGTON (December 18, 2015) - A new Morning Consult poll released today finds that Donald Trump's lead among Republican primary voters remains strong following Tuesday's GOP debate. The billionaire comes out on top at 36 percent, 24 percentage points ahead of Ben Carson at 12 percent, Ted Cruz at 11 percent, and Marco Rubio at nine percent.
The Morning Consult poll surveyed 1340 registered Republican and Republican leaning voters from Dec. 12 to 15 and 861 registered Republican and Republican leaning voters following the GOP debate from Dec. 16 to 17 for a margin of error of +/- three percentage points. One-third of the poll was conducted through live telephone interviews, one-third by interactive voice response (IVR), and one-third online.
| Candidate | Pre-Debate: December 12-15 | Post-Debate: December 16-17 |
| Donald Trump | 38% | 36% |
| Ben Carson | 14% | 12% |
| Ted Cruz | 12% | 11% |
| Marco Rubio | 8% | 9% |
| Jeb Bush | 7% | 7% |
| Carly Fiorina | 2% | 2% |
| Chris Christie | 2% | 2% |
| Rand Paul | 2% | 3% |
| Someone Else | 5% | 7% |
| Don’t Know | 10% | 11% |
(Excerpt) Read more at morningconsult.com ...
So no real movement really if you consider the margin of error, but interesting that Carson is still holding in second place.
So he’s going to drop out now?
/s
It looks like he's tanking.
The debate had near zero effect.
Are you sure?
Because (insert thing here) was supposed to finally “sink his campaign”.
LOL.
Exactly. Noticed that actually everyone went down fractional except for Amnestio who went up a point. Overall attributable to margin of error but it looks like the debate changed nothing. Trump still strong and would expect him to go up some more after he hits on the budget deal this weekend. He needs to end up Christmas like an NBA game. Go on a little 10-0 run before the half and the pick up again after the new year.
18% in “yet to be committed” is actually in 2nd place.
Someone Else 7%
Don’t Know 11%
They will break for frontrunners eventually, but which ones? They’ll probably divide out, but if they all break for the same person, that could be interesting.
Expect it to go up 5 more points after this
Hammer Meet Nail-Donald Trump Statement Regarding Paul Ryan Omnibus Spending Bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3373966/posts
The two point slip is probably the full extent of the damage Trump will suffer from his three bad comments last weekend. Next time he’ll be sailing on smooth waters again.
Rubio, the GOPe’s new standard bearer, needs to be destroyed. He is a duplicitous, dangerous RINO in service to the ruling elites.
The GO PEE has run everyone against Trump, guess it’s Cube’s turn now...lolol...
#GO.TRUMP.GO
Actually I'm not that surprised. We have all been assuming that Carson was going to go over the cliff and join the ranks of Bush and Fiorina. I sort of expect him to hover around the 10% mark. If so that's not good for my guy Cruz who is currently sucking up all of the evaporating Carson Oxygen.
2016 debate schedule if they have all of them.
January 2016 — Iowa
January 14, 2016 — South Carolina
February 6, 2016 — Manchester, New Hampshire
February 13, 2016 — South Carolina
February 26, 2016 — Houston, Texas
March 2016 — Florida
https://www.gop.com/2016-gophq/event_schedule/?schedule_type=debate
Ben Carson seems like a nice guy, but I dont believe for a second that he is in 2nd place or anywhere near.
If I had to choose between Rubio and Carson, would have to pick Carson.
Cruz is alone in 2nd I am sure of that
Great to see that picture at the top of Trump Threads... thanks Helicondelta...
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