[Reuters] If the Republican Presidential Primaries came down to [Trump and Cruz] [ ]

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[GonzoII]

December 31, 2015

1,137 Respondents

Donald Trump 40.0%

Ted Cruz 31.5%

Wouldn't vote 28.5%

[GonzoII]

[GonzoII]

Full title: If the Republican Presidential Primaries came down to these candidates, for whom would you vote?

[9YearLurker]

So a 56%/44% landslide for Trump?

[libbylu]

filtered to registered likely primary voters it is:
Trump 50%
Cruz 47%
Not bad considering Teddy doesn’t have your candidate’s name recognition.

[deport]

Full title: If the Republican Presidential Primaries came
down to these candidates, for whom would you vote?

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Subjective because that isn’t what the ballots will look like. However
it most likely is accurate to the extent that one of the two will
become the GOP nominee. But others will get some votes.

[JoSixChip]

Not bad considering Teddy doesn't have your candidate’s name recognition.

Your candidates problem is that he has a credibility problem. He claims he is not owned by the GOPe, yet they are funding him and he votes exactly how they tell him to. Add to that the only accomplishment Teddy has in the Senate is his leadership on TPA, that's Teddy's problem.

[GonzoII]

"Not bad considering Teddy doesn't have your candidate's name recognition."

That isn't bad. Of course the result is with 379 Respondents and the primaries will never only be between Trump and Cruz.

[biff]

Hogwash

[GonzoII]

"So a 56%/44% landslide for Trump?"

You'll have to enlighten me there..?

[rmichaelj]

He took out the will note votes and redistributed the percentages

[GonzoII]

Got it.

[BobL]

No find a poll showing Cruz’s numbers AFTER he goes through the same grinding as Trump has been going through for the past 6 months.

Obviously that cannot yet exist. But, by the time the media and The Establishment get through with Cruz (assuming that Cruz knocks out Trump), we’ll find out Cruz isn’t American, believes that he can channel Jesus, has been a member of 3 different hate groups, his wife had 4 abortions in between having kids, and once borrowed a friend’s Japanese car to buy milk (rather than finding an American car, taking the bus, taking Uber, or walking).

Needless to say none of the above is true, except maybe the last one...but that is how the process works.

[ripnbang]

Maybe Teddy does and the respondents just like Trump better?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

This says to me that the polls are bogus. BUT, if not bogus, it says this:

Trump gains pretty much nothing from the loss of other candidates. His negatives must be very high. Cruz gains most, but not nearly enough. The main thing it says, if true, is that Republicans are too divided and therefore have no chance. I blame mostly the GOPe who would rather keep control of the party than win. They do not care if they kill it to keep it. In the biblical sense, they are the mother who says “yes, divide the baby.”

[Dr. Sivana]

Add to that the only accomplishment Teddy has in the Senate is his leadership on TPA, that's Teddy's problem.

Some of us give him credit for stopping the Gang-of-Eight stuff. If you think stopping stuff isn't an accomplishment, his five wins at the Supreme Court as Solicitor General of Texas, including the establishment of the Personal Individual Right to Bear Arms by itself is a very noteworthy accomplishment.

[LS]

Polls aren't bogus. This is right in line with every other poll:

1) Trump now over 32 in almost every poll, national or state

2) In many polls (about four that I counted in last week) he is pushing 40 or over 40

3) Trump gets a lot of indies Cruz doesn't.

4) ergo, Trump not only wins the nomination, but the general.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Lets have a few primaries first. Polls are polls but Votes trump all. My gut says it will be a Trump victory but anything is possible.

[TXnMA]

"Not bad considering Teddy doesn't have your candidate's name recognition."

True. Cruz never had his own TV show -- whose only memorable moment was when he said, "You're fired!"...

[BruceS]

Just for my edification, what accomplishments in upholding the Constitution does Trump have?

[LS]

Yeah, but one poll upset (a la KY) is expected. Not in every single state where Trump is leading by 10-20. We’re almost to the point in many of these where every other candidate’s voters would have to unite to beat Trump. Won’t happen, especially because a LOT of the GOPe will never support Cruz, and some of the conservatives won’t ever support anyone else.