Posted on 11/04/2015 7:39:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It's a close race between business tycoon Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson for the position of front-running Republican presidential candidate. Per a Quinnipiac University survey, 24% of responders said they'd vote for Trump, compared to 23% who said they'd vote for Carson. Bear in mind that a separate national poll from NBC/WSJ out Tuesday put Carson in the lead, polling at 29% to Trump's 23%.
Though Quinnipiac University's survey, which comes one year before 2016's Election Day, claims the race between Trump and Carson is neck-and-neck, the findings also suggest that Trump's still got work to do to win voters' support. According to the University survey, 25% of Republican voters said they "would definitely not support Trump."
Trailing Trump and Carson, the Quinnipiac University National Poll puts Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 14%, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 13% and former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush at 4%. The remaining Republican candidates all polled below 3%, while 63% of responders to the survey claimed they may still pivot on who to support.
As for the democrats, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pulling a strong lead ahead of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, per the findings. Of Democratic voters who responded to the survey, 53% said they'd vote for Clinton versus 35% who said they'd vote for Sanders.
Though that's good news for Clinton among Democratic voters, the former Secretary of State didn't fair as well when compared to the real competition: the republicans. Per the poll, 50% of responders would vote for Carson over Clinton.
"Is there a doctor in the house? There certainly is and at the moment Dr. Ben Carson is delivering a troubling diagnosis to Secretary Hillary Clinton," said the Quinnipiac University Poll
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Smoke and mirrors. Neither the GOPe nor the Democrats want Trump. Carson will be easy to kneecap when the time comes.
Where are all these Carson supporters? I do not know anyone who has Carson at the top of their list. None of my co-workers, church friends, neighbors, no one has said to me that they will vote for Carson. Even here, on Free Republic there is hardly anyone talking about Carson.
Quinnipiac University survey!!!!!! Very reliable source!! s/
So... they poll a couple hundred people, take the percentages, then extrapolate for the entire nation.
Only in politics is such astounding inaccuracy deemed satisfactory.
In what other poll does the polling org refer to another poll? Yet this one with Trump leading has to refer to A COMPETITOR’S poll that shows Carson ahead? Sheesh
A pollster once told me that you can “cook†any poll by as much as 10%.
For a Trumpster, the only reliable survey is one that shows him leading big. Any poll that shows Trump slipping or not doing as well is suddenly a conspiracy by the GOPe to deprive us all of the Godking Trump.
Here is the fact, and many Trumpsters just don't get this. A large segment of right of center voters want NOTHING to do with Trump. They don't like him, and while they'd prefer an outsider candidate they do not want Trump. This is why Carson is doing well - he is getting evangelicals that Huckabee would have been getting plus the "anti-establishment but not Trump" support.
The only name I hear is Trump. No one, absolutely no one, I talk to is supporting Carson, Rubio or anyone else. It’s Trump!
Even Rubio and Cruz lead the Ubershrew in the Quinnipiac. Interesting.
Carson will be Mr. Milquetoast vs. the Queen. The press is trying hard to set up every GOPe that they know will loose, they don’t want to cancel their planned coronation of 2016. If it takes the tarnished blonde Knight to win, and prevent it, so be it.
I see more people supporting Carson on my facebook feed than any other cancidate besides Clinton.
My conservative friends seem to be going Carson and the liberal ones Clinton.
Im in California and I have lots of evangelical friends from church. Then I have lots of friends from Texas where I grew up.
So Carson and Sharpton is a no event...
and his adviser Winston buddy with Farrakhan...?
I foresee shock and awe at the outcome of this election.
Yep... Like you’ve said in the past, Trump’s support is intense but shallow. As for the lines of “no one I talk to supports (insert other-than-Trump name here),” unless they’re talking to a wide range of folks, that assessment isn’t valid.
I don’t think you are correct about the right of center not wanting Trump. Likely, the country club Republicans don’t want Trump.
Poll Reading: Carson plummets after most recent debate
Poll Reading: Carson plummets after most recent debate
I havent met anyone that supports Carson????!!!
I know one, but he’s starting to go wobbly on Ben the more he speaks.
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