Posted on 03/04/2016 4:34:15 PM PST by GilGil
Thirteen states hold primaries or caucuses over the next two weeks. Of them, Trump is leading polls in nine, according to the RealClearPolitics average, including some of the most important, winner-take-all states.
The other states — Hawaii, Maine, Idaho, and Missouri — don't have any recent polls listed on the site. They're also the three states with the fewest delegates to award. And in Maine, Trump has the endorsement of Gov. Paul LePage.
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Do you really think he’s doing this out of an altruistic philanthropical concern for the health and well-being of his fellow man?
I don’t mean to pick on Trump. You can say the same thing about every other fellow citizen who is running or currently holds public office.
My peer-reviewed studies which are completely bogus claim that 11.26% of politicians are honest and just want to serve because of their love of America. Something bigger than themselves.
They do exist. Do you like how I added the decimal points to make it look like there was some statistical significance to my nonsense? :-)
Again....as I mentioned in my post, which other candidate has invested so much, personally with his businesses, worldwide, to risk taking a hit on his brand/reputation? The others can slink back into their tax paid, political careers....no sweat off their back.
Lol, absolutely right !
“But how do you know that he will do what he says he will do?”
How do you know that ANY politician will do what he says he’ll do? You don’t. And most don’t, particularly Presidents who owe 2 billion dollars worth of “favors” to their donors, and U.S. Senators who owe at least 10 million dollars worth of “favors”.
At least Trump is unique in that respect: he’ll own “donors” nothing.
But otherwise, one simply has to judge a man’s character based on his past performance, assuming that there’s any past performance that matters to judge, which there usually isn’t with most politicians these days: they haven’t really done squat to be measured by. Trump didn’t get rich by deliberately screwing other people; he’s apparently not hated by most of the people he does business with, and he’s raised some fine children, which is another thing that is unfortunately unusual with many of the rich and famous.
I do support Ted Cruz but have no argument with Donald Trump’s ‘nutcracker’ firmly embracing the Republican Establishment’s ‘gonads’.
I still want to see Ted win, the only option for the GOPe I see and dare I say demand is ‘unconditional surrender’ to Ted Cruz with Ted being able to make all the moves to defeat Trump and being given the final say in all matters.
Still if Trump wins, I accept that but will not support Trump if he has a GOPe running mate.
Cruz is Canadian.
He soon is going to be needing a hair piece or else have a very, very high forehead..
surprised his handlers didn’t take care of that before he hit the campaign trail.
Cruz and his father even more so are Cuban (like Desi Arnaz Jr. and Desi Arnaz)
Bobalu....Bobalu....ay...ay
Great post ! ! !
Piles of cash, power over other people is some peoples measure of success.
That’s an empty life.
Not another dirty trick?
A ballistic vest or bullet-resistant vest, often called a bulletproof vest, is an item of personal armor that helps absorb the impact and reduce or stop penetration to the body from firearm-fired projectiles and shrapnel from explosions
Not Teflon....and not even Kelvar....
Trump is encased in verbal reactive armor..
Response by Trump to incoming verbal is instantaneous...intense...devastating and on target.
Some of the individual poll results are interesting. Maybe other Freepers can post some — I’ll do my part with a couple nearby states:
KY: WKU Poll, Feb. 22-26; MOE 4.3%: Trump 35%, Rubio 22%, Cruz 15%, Kasich 6%.
I guess that leaves 22% undecided or used to belong to Carson, etc. It’s hard to see Rubio beating Trump, and hard to see Cruz picking up 20% out of the 22% undecided, even if this is rather old data. While in KY I’ve seen an anti-Trump ad on TV - the usual KKK connection and other nonsense — the type of ad that just makes you want to change channels, even if it attacked the candidate I oppose. I’m not sure who was behind it. Can’t anyone ask a real question anymore?
IL: RCP avg., Feb. 15-24; MOE 3.0%: Trump 33%, Rubio 17.5%, Cruz 15.5%, Kasich 11%; leaving 23% undecided or unknown.
I’d be inclined to think Rubio would have a shot - most of the Pubs left in IL are “moderate”, but he did so poorly in the last debate, and Kasich would tend to pull from him... Cruz would have to double his support to win. I’ve not seen any ads in IL, but have not watched much TV from IL stations, either.
BTW, am I correct in saying that on Super Tuesday, states Trump did not win were all states in which he did not hold rallies a week or 2 prior to the Primary?
My calculations put him at about 1350-1380 delegates going to the convention, even giving Cruzbio AZ, KS, UT and a couple of others.
For Cruz I was thinking UT, KS, NE. But AZ looks like Trump ...
Arizona 2016-01-21 :: Ted Cruz Gaining Favor With Arizona Voters But Still No Match for Donald Trump, New Poll Shows
... most of the Pubs left in IL are “moderate” ...
I'm not so sure about that. Although Dumbo got 62% in 2008 and 58% last time around, there are a cubic buttload of "red" and deep "red" counties south of Chicago.
They're kinda like NY ( my state ) just upside down. If we just detach that cancerous tumor from the rest then the state is an overall very light purple magenta. :-)
2012 Presidential Election :: Illinois
Remember these polls said the same thing about Super Tuesday.
Now do not go get your Trumpbot pantys all up in a roar and start swearing and squealing. Just pointing out the obvious.
Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t. No one would even be talking about illegal immigration today if Trump hadn’t forced the issue.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb. That’s what Trump has done.
Without Trump taking on the enemedia and beating them, the first time this has been done since Reagan, Cruz and the rest would be quivering before their concerted assaults and spending all of their time apologizing for having accidentally strayed into the shallows of political correctness and saying something Black Lives Matter or the Southern Poverty Law Center hate groups hated with consequent massive amplification by the enemedia as they pounded their PC drums against the GOP. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”. That’s what Trump has done.
After only four state primary elections, Trump has already taken out all but one GOP RINO candidate. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump has used the enemedia against itself, exposed FNC for being Rupert Murdoch’s personal propaganda channel, and made the other cable networks realize they can grow their ratings by playing more fairly. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump has attracted the “big tent” coalition that the GOPe always professed it wanted, but never really did, by appealing equally to all demographic groups, whether they be rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, male or female, blue collar or white collar, north or south, east or west. That’s what Trump has done.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump’s coalition of voters have panicked the Senate into growing a backbone and standing up to Obama by refusing to consider any Supreme Court nominee until the next President is in office. That’s what Trump has done.
And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin. That’s what Trump has done.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice. That’s what Trump has done.
Donald J. Trump is the very epitome of the anti-social-justice-warrior, and he’s galvanized an entire nation of the like minded who have been desperately waiting for years for a leader who could lead them from the desert of political correctness.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
catnipman, thank you for this very nice informative and enlightening compilation of some of Trump's achievements over the last several months.
Sadly, many here have forgotten Trump's accomplishments in bringing these realities to light. For the most part, the other candidates are now discussing these topics which, until now, were not recognized or have been dormant.
The lawyer/politicians live in their myopic silos and clearly have no clue about free enterprise capitalism. They have never run, much less owned a business.
To their credit, they've done their homework and worked hard to become lawyers (and a doctor), but If asked about corporate inversions, incentives, economics, finance, trade deficits, national debt, labor force participation rate versus unemployment statistics, quantitative easing, etc. and Megyn Kelly flashed these simple illustrations during the debates:
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With the exception of Carly Fiorina, the other 16 candidates would have this reaction:
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Many here prefer electing a politician/lawyer who's only life's experience is in a courtroom...
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Donald Trump lives in the real world, and apparently so do his children, which says something else about the old man.
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We should ask ourselves, "Do we want to see this as one of our solutions to the immigration invasion into our country?" If you don't think Trump can achieve this vital task, who will?
LOLOL Oh noooo
How awful.
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