Gallup: Enthusiasm among Trump supporters dwarfs that among Cruz supporters 65/39

Gallup ^ | March 29, 2016

[jmaroneps37]

A new Gallup report finds that enthusiasm among Trump supporters is what it calls, "extraordinarily high" at a combined extremely enthusiastic and very enthusiastic level of 65%. It reports Cruz supporters are at a combined 39% and Kasich supporters are at a combined 33%. Hillary's supporters are at 54% way above Comrade Sanders'44%.

[jmaroneps37]

This needs to be added to the two new national polls (Morning Consult and Monkey poll) show the same 21 point lead for Trump

[Diogenesis]

The rabid Cruz supporters could add a few rats to the
mix.

Might bring over some Dems to them, too.

[samtheman]

I am enthusiastically for Trump and enthusiastically against Cruz.

So for me it is 50-50.

[johniegrad]

Is it better to have fewer but more enthusiastic supporters or to have more but less excited voters?

[Electric Graffiti]

It’s amazing that talk radio and fox can get Count Copulot that high in the polls. I’m not buying it.

[rovenstinez]

I guess it all depends upon who you are asking. I see it both ways. I see a lot of TRUMPSTERS fired up. I see a lot CRUSADERS on fire. Such is politics, not so much on the Demo side...they MUST admit to this.

[Bryanw92]

Then, we must have all the rabid Cruztians right here on FR.

[manc]

well seeing as Trump has won twice as many states, got well over a more million votes, and is leading in delegates and the other two have no chance of getting the delegate count now before the convention.

yep I’d say now a vote for cruz is a vote for the establishment contested election.

[SeekAndFind]

Here's the other side of the divide:

CNN poll: 35% of Republicans and leaners want a third-party GOP candidate if Trump is the nominee

[SeekAndFind]

[Slyfox]

The whole swearing allegiance thing is troubling to me.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Mindlessness and enthusiasm have a proportionate relationship as well.

[MichelleWSC3]

“CNN poll: 35% of Republicans and leaners want a third-party GOP candidate if Trump is the nominee”

-—So 65% are fine with Trump

[20yearsofinternet]

Trump supporters know that he’s not a GOPe stooge. The longer the race goes on, the more obvious it becomes that Cruz is.

[The Iceman Cometh]

the more obvious it becomes that Cruz is.

Cruz has to have Fiorina fight his battles for him.

[SeekAndFind]

So 65% are fine with Trump

From the same link:



Note that those who are comfortable with Trump are just one-third of the party.

However, CBS backs up CNN by finding that Trump isn’t unusually unpopular among Republican voters compared to Cruz, which would explain why Cruz hasn’t surged despite the consolidation of the field lately. Just 17 percent of Republicans say they’d never support Trump; 19 percent say so of Cruz.

[Vision Thing]

Mindlessness and enthusiasm have a proportionate relationship as well

Fester Chugabrew said this quite enthusiastically!

[Jack Deth]

Memo to Gallup:

You’d better tell ‘Politico’.

They have his popularity losing it in the third turn, crashing and burning!

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

and the enthusiasm factor has NOT been talked about much this season

it has been hushed up for the dems as well

wonder why?

every other election cycle it is front and CENTER

[Catsrus]

What is sad is that Cruz supporters can’t seem to connect the dots between Cruz and the establishment. He has been a Trojan Horse the entire time, just biding his time to spring his endorsements out there. Poppy Bush even helped him get the Solicitor General position in Texas. It’s sad to see so many naive, low information voters. But, hey, we got 2 terms of Obama from them, so it’s to be expected.