Posted on 02/16/2016 3:45:29 AM PST by Helicondelta
Donald J. Trump continues to lead the Republican primary field in South Carolina. He's also the candidate the highest number of voters would want to be stuck in an elevator with.
Ben Carson, meanwhile, is widely considered a good person to loan your car to, even among supporters of other candidates.
An automated telephone poll of 416 voters conducted exclusively for Free Times by Crantford Research attempts to tease out some key electoral forces as the state heads into its Feb. 20 GOP primary. It was the first poll conducted since the Feb. 13 GOP debate in Greenville.
Asked who they plan to vote for, 32 percent of respondents in our poll chose Trump. Ted Cruz was at 16 percent, Marco Rubio at 13 percent, Jeb Bush at 12 percent, John Kasich at 9 percent, and Ben Carson at 4 percent. Fourteen percent were undecided.
Our results confirm other polls that show Trump with a double-digit lead.
Crantford Research conducted the Free Times South Carolina GOP Presidential Preference Survey on Feb. 14, 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at free-times.com ...
anywhere this isn’t on Facebook? I am not going to sign up or give FB any information.....thanks.
“The data suggest Trump and Carson have the deepest, most durable support, while other candidates’ support may be more fluid. Trump, however, has broad support, while Carson’s is at this point quite narrow.”
Weird, I did not have that problem. Went to a website.
I clicked on the FB link and got the sign up thing. Clicked on the free-times link and couldn’t see any video.
My ad track blocking does however show it blocked content from at least 8 ad tracking services. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Here’s another new poll! Trump = 2 two Foreign born guys!
Poll: Trump at 35%; Cruz and Rubio follow with 18% each
I feel the Cruz pain
according to the Morning Joe the polls in SC AFTER the debate are showing Trump’s lead either stayed the same(yuge) or have increased(yuger).. whereas Cruz’s numbers have gone down since the debate..
Each congressional district delegate ... shall be bound during the first ballot at the convention to the presidential candidate who received the greatest number of votes .... If the candidate who received the greatest number of votes in that particular delegate’s home district is not placed in nomination, a delegate must then be bound to the congressional district's second or third place finisher in the presidential preference primary, respectively. If none of the top three finishers in the congressional district presidential preference primary are placed in nomination, delegates shall be unbound. Each delegate-at-large shall be bound for the first ballot to the candidate who received the largest number of votes statewide in the presidential preference primary. If the candidate who receives the greatest number of statewide votes in the presidential preference primary is not placed in nomination, a delegate must then be bound to the state's second or third place finisher in the presidential preference primary, respectively. If none of the top three finishers in the statewide presidential preference primary are placed in nomination, delegates shall be unbound. [South Carolina Republican Party Rules - Rule 11(b)(4), (5)]In each congressional district, whoever gets the most votes in that district gets all the district delegates (3 delegates per district, 7 districts). Whoever gets the most votes statewide gets the 29 statewide delegates.
It is possible for Trump to walk away with all the delegates here.
The more I hear Trump talk, the more I realize that he has a major case of ‘affluenza’. I have worked with people like him on many occasions, and we called the Sea-gull managers. They fly above the crowd, swoop down and leave their droppings, and then fly away.
I noticed that nobody wanted to be stuck in an elevator but some would loan their car to Ted. I’m sure that Ted would turn around and put the car up for a church auction to raise funds. Telling isn’t it that even voters don’t want to have a personal connection with Ted.
Thanks for the head’s up....I turned on the TV and thoroughly enjoyed this!!!!
That’s It! Trump is for stuck elevators! I am over Trump!
I don’t like stuck elevators and I can’t support anyone that ignorant people want to be in stuck elevators with. /S
Cruz was born in Canada.
Rubio was born in the USA. Both parents were Cubans who had received formal status. By the time of his birth, neither had yet, iirc, received US citizenship. My interpretation of that was that they still hoped to return to Cuba some day.
But the anchor baby interpretation really doesn't apply to Rubio as much as Won Kim Ark whose parents were also residents, but who the SCOTUS said was a born in the USA citizen at birth.
I think George Washington would have accepted Rubio as a viable presidential candidate. I don't think he would have accepted Cruz.
Possible, but not likely, at least from what I’ve read. There are 50 delegates. If he wins statewide, he’ll get all 10 of the at-large delegates. But he’d have to win in every congressional district to get all 21 of the district delegates (3 per each of the 7 districts). Then there are 3 “party” delegates and 16 “bonus” delegates. For all I know they’re chosen at random from the drive-through line of the McDonald’s nearest the state house.
That’s because Trump elevators are actually gas chambers...
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... because he is Hitler.
/sarc
Well, except for the fact that during George Washington's time as president, everybody essentially became naturalized during the revolutionary war. So Cruz would have been eligible.
Today however is a different story and I believe he isn't and that he will have a tough legal battle if nominated.
Rules of the SC Republican Party:
Rule 11(b):From the National GOP rules 14(a)(6):(5)Each delegate-at-large shall be bound for the first ballot to the candidate who received the largest number of votes statewide in the presidential preference primary.
(6) In addition, one (1) delegate at large shall be awarded to a state for any and each of the following public officials elected by such state in the year of the last preceding presidential election or at any subsequent election held prior to January 1 of the year in which the next national convention is held: (i) A Republican governor, provided that no such additional delegate at large awarded to any state shall exceed one (1); ...My interpretation of that is that the "bonus" delegates are treated as additional "at large" delegates, and awarded by the same method (winner take all).
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