Posted on 02/18/2016 9:12:51 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
"Ted Cruz Overtakes Donald Trump in Latest Republican Presidential Poll" - that's the headline of the Wall Street Journal, citing its joint national poll with NBC, the results released yesterday. The subhead is, "Texas senator leads businessman 28 to 26 percent nationally." Really?
The national survey was completed February 14-16, entirely after the South Carolina debate on Saturday night (February 13) when Donald Trump went, as they say, "over the top" in accusing former President George W. Bush of being a liar about the Iraq War. Perhaps that hurt Trump's national standing among Republicans. And while this poll was in the field, George W. Bush was in South Carolina campaigning for his brother. Possibly the national coverage of the former president emerging from hibernation to campaign eloquently for his younger brother did help Jeb (a little?), but somehow, did it also in a big way nationally hurt Donald Trump and help Ted Cruz?
This survey is good news for Sen. Cruz, and the findings could be correct. After all, Ted Cruz is the most credible conservative in the race. He has run a disciplined campaign. He has raised a lot of money. His campaign has produced some creative commercials. Besides their originality, perhaps they even get him votes. Maybe. And consider that Republicans may be uniting behind Cruz, against Trump. But not yet.
If Trump has dropped nationally from a solid first place lead to a close second place behind Cruz, we would expect to find evidence of that movement in individual states. After all, this is a macro-shift, even seismic.
So, why not look into a state with a lot of polling - South Carolina, which holds its Republican primary this Saturday (February 20). Cruz is a "values conservative" solid on social issues, so he should be doing well...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Who cares? It only matters on Saturday.
I don’t see cruz taking South Carolina.
Posted below is the reality of that bs posing as a poll!
Three Strikes re WSJ/Fox poll
Three Strikes - 3rd Time This Campaign Season NBC/WSJ Caught Promoting Agenda Polls
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | 02/17/2016 | Sundance
Posted on 2/17/2016, 4:57:15 PM by PJBankard
The team of NBC and Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch owned) has struck again with their latest highly coordinated and heavily manufactured latest “Agenda Poll”. We have previously revealed NBC/WSJ’s prior two constructs.......
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Remember, an “agenda poll” is not created to show a statistical snapshot of the presidential race. An “agenda poll” has nothing to do with the support. Agenda Polls are manufactured to create media talking points, to create media narratives.
Agenda polling is about setting out to make a story, to sell a specific narrative, by using polling as the means to justify the story you are selling. Nothing more, and nothing less.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3398474/posts
This poll being a farce was pretty obvious to anyone who isn’t desperate for hope.
Saturday night is gonna be ugly around here, LOL.
He has got to win! He bragged on South Carolina like it was a fire wall, and touted his 1500 ground forces in South Carolina, banging doors screens off and crawling through kitchen windows to sell the folks the evils of all but Cruzader.
“He (Cruz) has run a disciplined campaign.”
O Rilly? Every time his boys screw the pooch the article reporting on it has in it somewhere that this came as news to Cruz ...
like another feckless administrator who learned about screw ups in the newspaper.
The wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of clothes, around here, by one group, is going to be VERY ugly!
Other polls done by NBC with different organizations track with the rest, but this one with WSJ is way out of whack. They admit they polled 400 people, well 400 divided by 50 states = 8 people per state. EIGHT????
It’s a s#it poll. And the fact that Murdock owns WSJ makes it doubly suspicious.
If the Cubans are still around for Nevada on the 28th, this place is going to be like the movie ‘Downfall’ but with two Hitlers airing their grievances in rapid-fire Spanish.
Notice how late in the evening these jerks clarify the record. Few will see it tonight. Tomorrow morning expect another hit piece on trump. “ no harm, no foul “ Bull Sh!t
Notice how late in the evening these jerks clarify the record. Few will see it tonight. Tomorrow morning expect another hit piece on trump. “ no harm, no foul “ Bull Sh!t
Listen, CNN is actually talking about the anointed Cruz coming in third, behind the resilient Rubio after having recovered from his poor debate performance with Chris Christy. Can you believe it, THIRD.
Cruz should have never jacked around with TRUMPINATOR.
Cruz had set up South Carolina as practically a gimme, and then lowered expectations to coming in second to the Gladiator, and now must be sweating bullets evidently hearing CNN consider a whipping match by Rubio gaining ground. SHHHEEEEZZZ.
“Sleep tight, children.” Magda Goebbels
Heidi and (Does Marco Roboto have a mate?) her helpers will be passing out cyanide tablets to the ‘Por Nosotros, Todos’ Party faithful.
I’m shocked!
LOL...yes I know. I’d LOVE to see Teddy come in FOURTH in S.C., but will take him at third! ;^)
Uh, there’s no rule that says the national poll has to be in line with South Carolina.
Trump was leading nationally when he lost Iowa.
Clickbait article with a hokey premise tacked on to try to justify the phony headline.
We'll be drinking champers; they can all have the crying towels. ;^)
Trumpsters definitely crawled into their shells to silently weep for a little while after Iowa came down.
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