Posted on 02/20/2016 2:47:57 PM PST by NKP_Vet
Preliminary exit poll results from the South Carolina GOP primary have been released.
Record turnout by conservatives and evangelicals is helping to shape the South Carolina Republican primary, along with vast support for Donald Trump’s stance on limiting the ability of Muslims to enter the country and substantial backing for deportation of undocumented immigrants.
Preliminary exit poll results indicate that three-quarters of the state’s primary voters support temporarily banning Muslims who are not U.S. citizens from entering the United States. That’s even more than the support for this proposal among GOP voters in New Hampshire, 65 percent – a core support group for Trump in that state.
Many fewer – but still more than four in 10 – favor deporting undocumented immigrants, another very strong group for Trump in New Hampshire. And, in another helpful result for Trump, four in 10 pick him among five top candidates as best able to handle the economy – twice as many as pick his nearest competitor on this issue, Ted Cruz.
Other results are potentially helpful to other candidates. Eight in 10 GOP voters in South Carolina identify themselves as conservative, and four in 10 as very conservative – both on pace to set records in exit poll data in the state back to 1992. (In 2012, for example, 68 percent were conservatives.)
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Voted this morning 5 minutes after the doors opened.
GB Ted Cruz
GD Donald Trump
The camps are being WAY too quiet: was there a major upset? Nobody’s crowing!
It should happen, just not holding out much hope. Political will plays into it, and if national polls line up with what this one indicates, I’m seriously concerned it won’t happen.
Jeb racks up .002% of the popular vote, but mysteriously wins 98% of the delegates!
You should believe it.
The term "conservative" has become so broad as to include incompatible points of view under the same umbrella.
Just as the GOP will die as we reorganize the nation, so will the Conservative Movement™.
Some things that the American Nation needs to survive are conservative, some are not. What matters is that the globalists wrapped in the flag (Kristol, Podhoretz, Krauthammer, Bush, Graham, McCain, Rubio, the Chamber, and the rest of what is really a small minority) are put down for good.
We are chasing our tails with "liberal" vs. "conservative" while the globalists dissolve our nation out from under our feet.
Build the wall. Deport the criminals. Don't let any more in. Rebuild the Navy. Prepare our defenses.
Then, we can work out our differences among ourselves.
No more, "screw the Carrier workers because Carrier in Mexico is good for my 401(k)". That's treason.
Look for Trump to win SC going away and then NV on Tues.
The big question tonight is who comes in third?
Polls close at 7:00 .. Would they know anything this early?
The support for legal status for the invaders is surprisingly high, but 75% support banning muslims.
The problem is that South Carolina is winner-take-all. If Cruz nearly defeats Trump, he still gets nothing. So crowing just would come off as stupid.
Trump dominating Cruz in Patriotic and Very Patriotic! 63-8, 81-4
(I made that up, by the way)
But it’s the law and, thankfully, not up to an ABC “preliminary poll”!
Trump attacking W over Iraq enraged a lot of Americans who lost soldiers there. Stupid move calculated to attract RATS imo.
Oh Lord, please let Jeb come in last or next to last. Let this be his death watch as far as the campaign. Please, South Carolina, don’t do this to us, take Bush out.
??? You voted twice ???
Cruz’s number is pretty close to Trump’s support number. Trump’s is way off from Cruz’s number.
I speculate primarliy Trump supporters are flagging Cruz’s campaign. Trump’s number comes from multiple candidates’ supporters. I think this reinforces my concern over Trump’s negative opinion numbers.
I don’t think they’ll be given legal status, but I do think deportations will be much lower than people think.
And really, the border is much more important. Kate Steinle’s killer was successfully deported 5 or 6 times...can’t remember - and yet, he was back in through the porous border. What good is deportation until the border is secure? As Kate would say from her grave...NONE.
5 Things to Watch in South Carolina’s Republican Primary
[Whoever authored this article began reaching a Cruz climax from here on; I numbered the “5 Things” that tickled her/his fancy.]
“Further in these preliminary results, nearly three-quarters of GOP voters identify themselves as (1.) born-again or evangelical Christians—again a record if it holds in final data, up from 65 percent in 2012. It was evangelicals who lifted Cruz to victory in Iowa; they made up 64 percent of voters there, vs. just 25 percent in New Hampshire, where Trump won.
Additionally, nearly half say it matters “a great deal” to them that a (2.) candidate shares their religious beliefs—up very sharply from 26 percent in 2012. And the top candidate attribute voters are seeking is (3.) someone who “shares my values”—a weaker group for Trump in earlier contests, and a consistently better one for Cruz. It was the most-desired quality in New Hampshire and Iowa, as well.
In one newly hotly debated issue, the exit poll asked voters (4.) which of five candidates they’d trust most to handle nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court. In preliminary results, they chiefly divide between Cruz, Trump and Marco Rubio on this question.” (5.) AWOL
“newly hotly”
http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/sc/Rep
The candidate match-ups are up now.
Trump leads in most demographics.
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