Posted on 10/21/2015 4:46:20 AM PDT by kristinn
Businessman Donald Trump continues to maintain his hold atop the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, with retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson keeping a clear grip on second place and the rest of the large field scrambling to find a foothold, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Trump’s support has held steady over the past month; 32 percent of Republican and GOP-leaning voters currently back him compared with 33 percent in early September. The numbers suggest that mixed reviews of his performance in the second Republican debate in California did little to dampen the enthusiasm of his supporters. Carson, meanwhile, has ticked up from 20 percent to 22 percent.
The only other Republican in double digits among registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents is Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, at 10 percent. That represents a three-point increase in a month, within the poll’s six-point margin of sampling error.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush runs fourth at 7 percent, followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 6 percent and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina at 5 percent. No one else registers above 3 percent among Republican-leaning voters.
The current gap between Trump and Carson at the top and the rest of a field comprised mostly of elected and former elected officials underscores again the unusual nature of the Republican presidential race and a conservative electorate registering its disapproval with status quo politics and politically experienced insiders.
A majority of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents (57 percent) say they want the person who succeeds President Obama to be someone from outside the political establishment, rather than a candidate with experience working inside the system. Democrats, meanwhile, rate political experience more highly than outsider status.
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And Snarly Purina keeps going to the dogs.
I remember that clearly. Exactly four years ago, Herman Cain was reaching the peak of his surge. It all fell apart for him right before Thanksgiving.
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If ever there were to be a more misleading “news” article than this, I haven’t seen it. This is a story on a poll, and the poll results aren’t discussed, or even linked. The only graph is a hugely misleading one of Trump dropping one point where the scale is so exaggerated that it shows him dropping off a cliff. One point is WELL within the margin of error of the poll, yet the data for that isn’t even mentioned. WaPo obviously didn’t like what they measured in the poll, so they wrote this article to cover it up. I read it only to see where Cruz was standing in their new poll, and he wasn’t even mentioned.
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