Posted on 03/08/2016 11:26:34 AM PST by Chasaway
Trump leads poll with a disparate group campaigning. When head to head with Cruz or Rubio, he loses.
"An ABC News/Washington Post poll shows Donald Trump leading the race to become the Republican nominee for President of the United States. However, if the field were to consolidate, the billionaire businessman would no longer be favored in a head-to-head situation, according to the survey...]
[Cruz easily defeats Trump head-to-head 54-41 percent. non-Cruz or Trump supporters prefer Cruz to Trump 72-17 percent.
Among “very conservative voters,” Cruz takes down Trump 60-34 percent. Among white evangelicals, Cruz handles Trump 64-31 percent.
Rubio also defeats Trump, but by smaller margins, 51-45 percent. Non-Rubio or Trump voters favor Rubio 69-23 percent. He, like Cruz, is favored by approximately 60% of women in a head-to-head with Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This has wound up to be the election of elections for those who live in a fools fantasy world.
After all the debates we’ve had and all the caucuses and primaries we’ve had, who is in the lead, and who is still living in an Alice n Wonderland dream state?
The catch is the states favorable to Cruz have receded in the primary calendar.
Huckabee/Santorum country isn’t most of America and Cruz has yet to win in any state without a significant bloc of evangelical/very conservative voters.
That’s especially true today where it will be tough for Cruz to win any state apart from ID.
But anything is possible in politics.
Do you have any idea just how ridiculous you are. Just because something is posted that you don’t happen to like, it doesn’t make it spam. If that was true 99% of the stuff posted on FR would be cosidered spam.
Get over yourself.
This is the new talking point. Last week the memo goes out that Trump loses head to head against Rubio and Cruz. This week the polls come out to support it. Inconvenient fact is that there are not 2 candidates at the moment, there are 4, and Trump will win Michigan, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois and possibly Ohio in the next 7 days. Ted will win a few minor caucus states. So next Sunday night, this election looks radically different than it does now. Also, I thought Cruz supporters didn’t believe in national polls? They are even more worthless now because representatives u speaking, about 40% of the people being polled have already voted by March 15th. The electorate in mid Atlantic, Northeast and West Coast states is radically different than elsewhere. Nice try Cruz supporters, but Ted’s stil not getting the nomination.
I don’t know what the truth is at this point, but this should be allowed to play out in an open and honest manner - with the one with the most votes declared the winner and Republican candidate for the Presidency. My number one objective is to make sure that someone who actually loves and appreciates the US winds up in the WH. That said, I will vote for anyone who isn’t Hillary. The one caveat to that is, if there is a move to suppress whomever is chosen by the people in the primaries, I will cast my vote for a write in, or not vote at all.
That's okay. You can do that.
If we can only convince Kasich and Rubio to drop out.
Funny how Cruz didn’t sweep the south, his so-called Conservative Stronghold. Cruz is an illegal candidate who is being backed to split the party and force a decision by the powers that be in a rigged convention.
Trump is being backed by Americans who have been screwed, glued, and tattooed by the Establishment and are now in REVOLT.
Anything to do with the Washington Post is ignored in my household.
You did a poll that comes out differently?
You ought to start posting your results here.
Agree, we know this and yet Cruz has shown he has no appeal what so ever.
Why he keeps saying he can beat Clinton wen he can’t even get better tan 3rd place I a swing state is beyond me. He is making himself look foolish.
Polls are statistical snapshots folks, assuming this poll didn’t screw up its sampling, its a snapshot of the respondents at the time of questioning.
The problem with polls, particularly when trying to assess some future event, is that events are dynamic and not static, so because a poll today asking a hypothetical question results in X, does not mean that a month from now faced with the non hypothetical decision the results will indeed be X.
When the race becomes a two man, (if ever, the rate we are going, and Kasich takes Mi or OH or Rubio takes FL next week we are in a 3 or 4 way through probably at least 4/26) the assumption that nothing will change and that folks initial decisions on who to move to when their candidate leaves are set in stone and will not change over time is a fundamentally flawed assumption.
If it comes to Trump and Cruz one on one, Cruz will attack Trump which he has been doing, and Trump will go full on complete focused attack on Cruz.... So far the track record has been, when Trump singles you out and focuses all his energy on someone, he tends to take them out. So the blind assumption that if it goes to a 2 man race, what polls today in those hypotheticals does not equate to what will happen, because the dynamics are ever changing.
Time will tell, but this Cruz wins a 2 man race mantra is simply things folks tell themselves to feel good at night. Time will tell, but I wouldn’t write jack into such polling, anymore than I would Hillary will Beat Trump or Cruz would beat Hillary.
In polls, right?
But you don’t believe THIS one because...you don’t agree?!
Pick one. Get your beliefs from polls or don’t.
But pick one and stick with it.
It kicks as hard as it shoots.
Of course you don’t. The only polls you believe are the ones that are pro-Trump.
This caller is an idiot.
Cruz has no crossover appeal. You can’t win without democrats these days..and Cruz won’t get them
Not enough conservatives in Amercia anymore its just a fact
Neither Cruzers or the GOP care about that. I’ve seen chatter that some in the GOPe don’t care if Cruz gets the nom and loses because that will put conservatives in our place. We’re being played and Cruz is the patsy.
Where'd that come from?
FreeRepublic's threads are almost 100% started with linked articles or references to articles. How's this (maybe my only one) linked article make me a spamboy?
No, really. Why?
well VA is not a poll they have voted.
I am in FL and see it on the ground.
Oh it is Kasich and Trump]]
This is national poll, you have ot look at swing sates and Cruz does not have the cross over appeal, sad as it is for you it is a fact.
He could not even win one county in VA and that is fact. Hell there were southern states he could not win a county and he has only won two primary election states, one being his own and that was less than 50%
forget Crossover Appeal, Cruz doesn’t have Republican appeal... the majority of primary and caucus voters have overwhelmingly voted against him to date... He preaches to the Choir, and can’t reach the congregation.
Cruz has huge general election issues, I have zero confidence he can win a General election, and have said so since day one.
First term senator who’s basically best known as the guy who nearly caused the nation to default.... absolutely no charisma or charm... has zero X factor, and can easily be painted as the boogie man by the left. Yes, this should be R’s year to win if we put up Mickey Mouse, but the same was true in 2012, and see how that ended?
Cruz has yet to be vetted.
Nothing about his representation of pharmaceutical companies, Toyota, or a Chinese tire manufacturer which violated a patent.
This does not even touch on his lack of success in the senate.
ah, polls that help djt are good others are trash..
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