Posted on 01/22/2016 8:25:00 AM PST by AuntB
Donald Trump is once again confounding pollsters, politicos, the media, Democrats, Republicans, and his GOP rivals as a just-released Florida Atlantic University poll has him garnering (by far) the greatest support among Hispanic Republican voters in Florida.
Jeb Bush in particular thought he would entice the Hispanic population with his repeated overtures to his own version of their concerns. He rebuked Trump for speaking so strongly against illegal immigration, with Mr. Bush claiming illegals crossing the U.S. border did so, "...as an act of love."
Marco Rubio has to be stunned at the Florida polling results as well. Both he and Bush are from Florida and were expecting to utilize their appeal to voters there to aid them in securing the GOP nomination. Among Hispanic Republicans Trump's lead is even greater at 54% - more than DOUBLE the combined support among Hispanics for Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio:
Donald Trump - 54 percent Marco Rubio - 15.1 percent Rand Paul - 14 percent Ted Cruz - 10.2 percent Jeb Bush - 5.5 percent
Thomas Sowell
I love Dr. Sowell, no ifs, ands nor buts.
I disagree with Dr. Sowell because what he sees as "gross defects" Trump supporters see as strengths. I don't know any Trumpsters that believes Trump is as conservative as is Ted Cruz {or cares}.
I'm a Cruzer, my wife and daughter are Trumpsters, and both are life long "conservatives" and we watch the Trump rallies and even I admit that no one can garner the emotional response that Trump gets.
They both say the same thing, we are tired of the same-o-same-o bullshit and we need someone with balls to change the system and clean out the stables.
End of story, my logic will not Trump their justifiable emotion. Trump may not give us the results we want, but he will shake up DC, and what comes out of chaos and destruction, well that is the big reason that there is so much angst.
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
Thanks to you both.
Thanks for the ping and the link. Ted Cruz is the establishment/one world government’s stealth candidate.
His birth (destroy our constitution) his views (destroy our sovereignty) and his backers (one world government, CFR, Bilderbergers, Goldman Sachs)
The Cuban Hispanics are far different than the Mexican Hispanics they have truly come from hell, they WANT the boarders closed they work HARD and do not want their jobs taken from them!!!! In the Cuban community living off the government is shameful, not so in CA. Trump employs MANY of these people in Florida!!!
Perfectly stated. I do not know how the "elite" can fail to see this. It would seem to be obvious.
busTED!
Reading this while listening to RUSH
Oh,My goodness! People are waking up to join the worker-ant raft increasing the size drastically.Folks, this is going to be huge! Everything as we have known it will change - EVERYTHING! and this is not obomba change - but TRUMP CHANGE!! America will be safer, stronger, freer, greater. Whoop WHOOP AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Change = only TRUMP can do it, will do it WE NEED CHANGE!
We still have an active lodge in our town.
If you read their statement of purpose, they could pass for a chapter of the DAR or SAR, just an Italian version. Unlike today's ethnic grievance and Balkanization lobbies, their purpose was to get Italian immigrants integrated into American life as quickly as possible.
Ethnic Italians make some of the best Americans, including my father-in-law.
Purist Alert! Titantic in motion. Downward projectory observed, and duly noted.
Read the link at post 4 and then tell me about “otherwise rational people” projecting, and I will add twisting, virtues and principles.
Please share-—too many in the ping list to type in: Rich Lowery tweeting that his Bush contacts tell him Cruz “ahead in IA and Trump gaining.” FWIW. Personally, I think Bush’s guys are about a week behind.
Read the link at post 4.
Then remember all of Ted’s excuses for his bills and votes.
Then remember Heidi’s role at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Then explain how Ted is not selling YOU a bill of goods.
Thanks for the ping.
Yes indeed!
The GOP and NR crowd wanted a big tent embracing democrat policies. I believe that has been tried and it hasn’t worked.
Remember when Scarborough said early this week that if the candidate were anyone else but TRUMP, the media would have already called this race, for TRUMP?
They are calling it now.
Heads of the hate Catholics Hate Hispanics are exploding right now LOL
If they don’t see any particular benefit from voting for a Republican they default to the Democrat who promises to give them stuff. A Republican runs who believably promises to create a situation where more work is available and wages are going up in the market then they will vote for that guy.
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