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Trump Change: 74% of GOP Voters Think Trump Likely Nominee
Rasmussen Reports ^ | Feb. 12, 2012 | Rasmussen Reports

Posted on 02/12/2016 3:03:17 PM PST by SatinDoll

What a difference a primary makes. After a one-week drop following Donald Trump’s second-place finish in the Iowa caucus, expectations that the New York businessman will be the Republican presidential nominee have jumped back to their highest levels.

Rasmussen Reports’ latest Trump Change survey, the first since Trump’s big win in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, finds that 74% of Likely Republican Voters again feel he is likely to be the GOP nominee. This includes 40% who say it’s Very Likely, tying the high first reached three weeks ago.

Last week, 61% of Republicans still believed Trump was the likely nominee, but that was down from a high of 74% the week before.

Twenty-one percent (21%) of GOP voters say Trump is not likely to win the nomination, but that includes only six percent (6%) who feel it’s Not At All Likely. Those findings were up to 36% and 14% respectively a week ago. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

When Trump announced his candidacy in mid-June of last year, however, just 27% of Republicans – and 23% of all voters – said he was likely to end up as the 2016 GOP nominee.

Among all likely voters, 60% now think Trump is likely to be the Republican standard-bearer. That’s up from 52% in the previous survey but still short of the high of 63% reached two weeks ago. Thirty-three percent (33%) believe Trump will not be the nominee. These findings include 26% who say it is Very Likely that he will win the nomination and 12% who say it’s Not At All Likely.

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; elections; polls; trump
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To: SatinDoll

I say the following with absolute respect and affection.

Having been a self conscious conservative starting in my teens during the 60’s, and having seen the slow destruction of this country for all those years, I believed after Reagan that I would never live to have the sort of candidate I could love and support with absolute joy and enthusiasm, the sort of candidate leftists take for granted every election.

Even when I liked Cruz very much last summer, I saw his flaws and limitations, and I resigned myself to supporting a guy I liked but could not love.

At first I despised Trump, for all the same reasons I see on FR daily. But with an open mind I watched him speak and especially watched his amazing interviews, and came to realize this is the candidate I could love and support enthusiastically, a true winner who loved America and Americans, someone who was on my side.

I really, truly, sincerely wish that all conservatives could feel the joy and optimism in my heart and the confidence in my soul. I wish we could share this unique historical moment together.

I realize the bitterness and opposition is too great. I wish it were not. And I hope in the coming months Trump’s candidacy will be a source of common happiness and optimism, so we can all celebrate together.


41 posted on 02/12/2016 4:23:28 PM PST by Gratia
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To: HarleyLady27
Thanks for the ping!
42 posted on 02/12/2016 4:24:16 PM PST by djstex (Sarah Palin," I'm in It to Win It" Trump Towers Above the Rest)
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To: SatinDoll

Go Trump GO! Thanks for the post!


43 posted on 02/12/2016 4:25:10 PM PST by djstex (Sarah Palin," I'm in It to Win It" Trump Towers Above the Rest)
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To: stocksthatgoup

Go Cruz!

5.56mm


44 posted on 02/12/2016 4:27:56 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Qwackertoo

“How many will stay home instead?”

Maybe a few from the FR microcosm, but in the grander macrocosm of the real world, probably not that many. Trump’s cross-over from demographic groups that haven’t voted Republican since Reagan will FAR, FAR outweigh a few sore losers.

(Yes, I know. It’s definitely a BAD thing nowadays when we have a GOP candidate who can actually get elected because he draws votes from many different groups that wouldn’t ordinarily vote for a Republican. But hey, I guess most people can get use to almost anything if they have to, including winning.)


45 posted on 02/12/2016 4:32:09 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

“A Trump Administration will be virtually indistinguishable from a Sanders Administration.”

Uh, yeah. Sure.


46 posted on 02/12/2016 4:34:05 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: refreshed

the media is a powerful weapon.


47 posted on 02/12/2016 4:35:56 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: QuinqueViae

Donald Trump is the last hope for our country. I agree with you 100%.


48 posted on 02/12/2016 4:35:56 PM PST by AnnieO
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To: dp0622

“he will likely be the nominee. then where will be no more reason to fight!!! :)”

I suspect at that point, the FR mods will be WAY less tolerant of any sustained, unwarranted assaults on the GOP nominee.


49 posted on 02/12/2016 4:36:29 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

are you kidding? Jim’s a saint. He’s really let the people go at it.

There’s no reason to be on the board if you dont support the nominee in June.

I know I will if it’s Ted or Donald. After that, it gets tough


50 posted on 02/12/2016 4:38:47 PM PST by dp0622
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To: catnipman

Yes the sooner we all coalesce around Trump the better.


51 posted on 02/12/2016 4:39:13 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: dp0622

“I know I will if it’s Ted or Donald. After that, it gets tough”

Ditto. I’m for Trump, but will gladly vote for Cruz in the unlikely event he’s the GOP nominee.


52 posted on 02/12/2016 4:40:48 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

What is a conservative? If you use Sen.Cruz as an example, I will shoot holes in you argument.


53 posted on 02/12/2016 4:45:00 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: Qwackertoo

Who will stay home? About 20%. Those will be the single issue voters, whose Socon issues can only be solved by the states.


54 posted on 02/12/2016 4:50:07 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: refreshed
>>Just because he’s ahead in the polls?


Quack, Waddle...

 

"Trump won't be able to trump Cruz on conservatism. So now he's making clear that he isn't running a conservative campaign - he's running a nationalist and populist campaign. His enemies include both Republicans and conservatives"
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/02/11/cruz-knocks-trump-as-non-conservative-trump-admits-it/

 

Populism-Duck

55 posted on 02/12/2016 4:56:03 PM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: SatinDoll

Seriously can you really imagine a joker and petty little boy like Trump in the White House? We are not going to do this again are we? Nominate another moderate squish?


56 posted on 02/12/2016 4:57:50 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: napscoordinator

So sad if we end up with Trump. Hilary will cream him. There is even a chance that Bernie could beat him.


57 posted on 02/12/2016 4:58:44 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: HarleyLady27

GO TRUMP!!


58 posted on 02/12/2016 4:59:21 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel ("God only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defence." (Psa 62:2))
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

He is purely an attention whore he cannot deal with criticism. His hatred of Forbes goes way back because they differed on how much he was worth. A petulant little baby who is awesome at losing other peoples’ money.


59 posted on 02/12/2016 5:00:07 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Well this kind of viewpoint comes from having a hero who tries to rise above God.

Call Trump a cad, call him a pig, call him coarse, but... don’t call him a liar. Because he almost never is.

For Hillary to meet him would be like the Wicked Witch of the West meeting the water that Dorothy spilled. And Bernie (unlikely candidate) would be Trump’s floor mop.


60 posted on 02/12/2016 5:01:22 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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