Posted on 08/24/2015 7:06:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
With the Iowa caucuses less than six months away, Donald Trump has taken a runaway lead among the GOP candidates.
While Trump has a commanding position in poll after poll, some news outlets are doing everything they can to downplay his candidacy. Whether by comparing Trump to Herman Cain in 2012, citing his inability to garner the grassroots support needed to win the presidential nomination, or by publishing headlines that a majority of Republican strategists and operatives doubt his capability of winning in either Iowa or New Hampshire, the media loves to hate on the New York-based developer.
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After asking Americans to compare themselves ideologically to the two parties in Congress, we were able to separate out likely Republican primary voters into three groups. The first group, made up of voters who place themselves to the right of Republicans, support Trump with 23 percent of the vote, followed by Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz at 11 percent and 10 percent respectively. Meanwhile, GOP voters who place themselves in line with GOP ideology favor Trump at 23 percent as well, followed by Cruz at 15 percent and Rubio at 12 percent.
Finally, GOP primary voters, who place themselves to the left of the Republican Party give Trump his highest number yet — 25 percent support. What’s truly surprising in these numbers is that not only is Trump leading among all three factions of the GOP, but that Bush, who should be the more establishment-friendly candidate, is running a distant fourth among the Republicans who feel aligned with the party.
Undoubtedly, Trump’s lead among all three groups points to some of his staying power, and is evidence that this isn’t just a flavor-of-the-month scenario like we saw with numerous Republican candidates in 2012.
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While I loved Cain, I loved him in spite of the fact that I knew he would never be elected. I have a much different feeling with Trump!
Analysis believes that Bush is a republican. He isn’t and we know it.
Jeb makes even Mitt Romney look like a conservative, for heaven's sake! At least Romney didn't go out of his way to promote open borders and poke conservatives in the eye with a sharp stick.
Herman Cain had to drop out of the race because of a sex scandal. Nobody knows if he could have won the nomination.
People like Trump because they see him as being patriotic.
O-bummer never misses an opportunity to say something bad about America, and people are sick of it.
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Trump isn’t winning because of the political profile he brings to the table, one which has a marked left wing aspect.
He’s winning because people believe that Trump cares about what they care about.
Are those people right about that. I sincerely hope they are. In the longer term, Trump is going to have to play down or abandon a lot of the leftist baggage he has, if he wants to get political support from avowed conservatives. I hope he proves half as good a listener as he is a talker.
Herman Cain, the next Sec. of Health & Human Services.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The rich are different than you and me.
Ernest Hemingway: Yes, they have more money.
(OK, maybe this conversation never happened. But it makes an interesting point otherwise.)
The Donald differs from Herman Cain, in that he has MUCH more money.
So sad. So many duped by an open socialist.
Finally, GOP primary voters, who place themselves to the left of the Republican Party....
What the heck is that about?
I guess Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and Jeff Sessions have been duped also.
No idea. Perhaps independents and folks who can’t figure out whether they are Republicans or Democrats.
+100
Romney was at least severely trying to be a Conservative. OTOH, ¿Yeb¡ is severely trying to not be a Conservative.
Supposed sex scandal.
Whenever Gloria Allred slithers onto the scene, the truth takes a backseat.
How do people to the right of the GOP place Bush in 2nd, higher than other groups? It’s either a bad poll or another sign that Republican primary voters simply do not understand conservative ideology. Especially compared to Democrat primary voters who are well-versed in liberal ideology. But then conservatives don’t have the benefit of taught their ideology from grades K through grad school.
“In the longer term, Trump is going to have to play down or abandon a lot of the leftist baggage he has, if he wants to get political support from avowed conservatives.”
That’s the advantage of his billions. Since nobody owns him, not the least the special interests, he’s free to listen to the people and act accordingly.
I believe he will listen to those who want America to succeed.
Has anyone ever really said they liked Jeb!?
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