Posted on 02/05/2016 4:48:08 PM PST by xzins
Donald Trump 34.6%
Ted Cruz 14.8%
Marco Rubio 13.0%
Wouldn’t vote 9.9%
Ben Carson 8.7%
(Excerpt) Read more at polling.reuters.com ...
Vastly different than the poll that had Trump at 25% and Cruz and Rubio at 21%.
That’s why we should keep our own averages of polls.
Some don’t like RCP, but the idea of averaging polls has nothing to do with anything except math. It’s a good idea.
If only Rubio had accomplished something in his life-— maybe he helped an old lady across the street-— come up with something Rubio lol...
I respectfully disagree. Regardless of the bad blood and whether you believe it or not the positions each has stated they are running on are actually the closest of all the candidates. We will find out soon enough, but Rubio appears at this point to be the least likely choice.
It won't be long before both Trump and Cruz realize that holding a grudge is not helpful to either of them. Trump has already said that his conflict with Cruz in water under the bridge. The advisers Cruz has hired are the best in the business... the writing is on the wall... they will advise him to call a truce. They need to fight this battle on their own terms and not let it be dictated by the media or the GOPe. We will get a better idea at the next debate... if they are not attacking each other it we will know and it will drive the GOPe batty.
Actually, Rubio was both Majority Whip and Speaker of the House in Florida.
Florida is a closed primary, you must be registered with a party to vote in their primary, independents/non-affiliated cannot vote in primary.
SC is open primary (any registered voter can vote in either primary, but only one).
I do not know about other states.
and what laws did he pass when he was in those positions?
“Trump has already said that his conflict with Cruz in water under the bridge.”
Tell that to the Fox moderators tomorrow night. The first thing that’ll be asked of Cruz is why some felt like he cheated Carson out of a fair result in Iowa. Then Cruz will take 30 minutes to “apologize” and Carson will ask him has he fired anyone off his staff, and then Cruz will either lie and say he has or get defensive and blame everything on Trump. Trump will get to weight in and he will probably say it’s over and he wants to move on, but as his blood starts boiling he’ll let Cruz have it with both barrels. He’ll ask Cruz why he keeps lying about him and we’ll get to see them holler at each other until the walking donut tells them to shut up and that no one cares about Iowa anymore. So it’s not the candidates that want a fight, it’s the low-life Fox moderators who want to see Trump blow up, lose his cool, and either walk off stage or cuss Cruz out. Their job is the same as all other Fox debates. Get Trump off his game by any means necessary and have him implode on national TV.
I’m not from Florida
Time to dump the loon.
Here’s a link to a resource that I have used for ~20 years. It has all the details you could ever want:
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/
Thanks, Quicksilver
You REALLY didn’t want make that three reasons.
You have got that exactly right! But Cruz has hired the best political advisers in the business. They are experts at pulling dirty tricks, but they are also smart enough to realize when it is better to call a truce at least temporarily. Trump isn't actually as gullible as the media seems to think that he is. He is like many of us here. He says it like he feels it is regardless of what the consequences are likely to be. He has already had this tendency used against him however and he will be a little more guarded in the future. This is still a dynamic and unpredictable primary.
It’s all good. :-)
yea— I think if he had accomplished something while he was in Florida— we would know about it....
Go look it up.
Do you honestly think the Florida house went for years doing nothing?
nobody is gonna look up and search what Rubio has accomplished— that is his job to tell us.. haha
It’s 10:30. I doubt he’ll get back with by tomorrow morning.
Yes. Mom told me “we’re nobodies and he cared about a little girl.”
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