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Economist/YouGov Poll: Trump Has 22-point Lead, Carson Slips to 4th [Trump 36% Rubio 14% Cruz 12%]
Newsmax ^ | Thursday, 26 Nov 2015 05:38 PM | Greg Richter

Posted on 11/27/2015 4:21:50 AM PST by GonzoII

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To: mbrfl
I guess his attacks on Carson worked. Brutal but effective

Carson's "vote for me because I'm humble, Godly, and smart [and black]" would have eventually worn thin with all but his most dim supporters. The more Carson spoke, the more obvious it became that he didn't have the first clue about much of anything.

With any luck, Rubio's "Jeb Lite" act will grow tiresome too and he'll be down to the single digits, leaving us with a Trump vs. Cruz race.

61 posted on 11/27/2015 7:23:59 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: CottonBall

I’m also very optimistic about Trump’s chances. Love seeing the GOP and the media in a panic. Trump is singlehandedly turning the conventional wisdom on it’s head.


62 posted on 11/27/2015 7:31:36 AM PST by calisurfer
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To: Liz

Thanks for the credit, Liz, but it was BobL that had the inside scoop that explained the mysterious quiet on illegal immigration.

I just added some comments that I didn’t think Trump would’ve complied anyway, since he’s not owned by the RNC or any donors.

Sad that the others are. Politics has become a game where we don’t know who is calling the shots nor what they’ll decide after we already voted (like the 2014 back-stabbing elections).


63 posted on 11/27/2015 7:33:33 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: BobL

sorry, forgot to ping you!


64 posted on 11/27/2015 7:34:07 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: GonzoII

Trump will be breaking 40% soon. I think even now he’s unstoppable. I’m looking for a landslide win in the general election bigger than Reagan.


65 posted on 11/27/2015 7:55:19 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: mbrfl
I guess his attacks on Carson worked. Brutal but effective.

I guess Carson's attacks on Trump didn't.


66 posted on 11/27/2015 8:27:38 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: GonzoII

FReepers need to focus on stifling GOPe’s last hope- Gang of 8, RINO Rubio. Get the word out on the boy wonder.


67 posted on 11/27/2015 8:42:51 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: GonzoII

Every time I see Rubio’s name I think of Rufio of the Lost Boys, another poser enamored with himself but ultimately failing.


68 posted on 11/27/2015 8:46:10 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1
another poser enamored with himself but ultimately failing

Rubio is the most dangerous of the GOP establishment's hacks, because unlike Jeb or Kasich, he can morph chameleon-like into a faux Tea Party conservative when talking to the right audiences, then go back to his true form minutes later and walk hand-in-hand with the Gang of Eight.

69 posted on 11/27/2015 8:51:14 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck
The more Carson spoke, the more obvious it became that he didn't have the first clue about much of anything.


70 posted on 11/27/2015 9:00:21 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: mbrfl

“I guess his attacks on Carson worked.”

I really think that Ben sank his own ship when he opened his mouth approximately 75 times too many, and people realized he doesn’t come close to having the tools, temperament, or knowledge to be the leader of the free world.


71 posted on 11/27/2015 9:02:11 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: mbrfl

“I see Lindsay Graham’s climbed to 1%”

Yeah, the fact that Graham places that high in that poll makes me wonder just how accurate that poll really is! :-)


72 posted on 11/27/2015 9:04:13 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: GonzoII
Yeah, but if Trump would have just spoke differently and didn't fight so hard he would be leading big in the polls for 140+ days. Oh, wait he is......

If Trump took some people's advice and didn't fight so hard aginst "decent" men he would be up and down like Romney and lose like Romney. Get off my radio.

73 posted on 11/27/2015 9:05:33 AM PST by conservative98
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To: CottonBall; Liz

Thanks Cottonball. It was in August and there was a guest host for Michael Medved (so you could imagine where this is going).

He was interviewing SOMEONE, but I never got his name (I was driving home from work) - but he was kind of GOPe. He said exactly as you paraphrased - at the start of the Primary season all the probable candidates were simply told that if the wanted to see a dime of big money, they would abide by certain rules, with keeping quiet on immigration being the TOP RULE...as they were (conveniently) convinced by Frank Luntz’s (directed-result) polling that Romney’s throw-away debate line in Jan. 2012 regarding him pressing for policies to make Illegals self-deport cost him the election. Nothing else. They guy was genuinely angry that Trump had blown open the entire plan, for the entire part - as if all of the candidates would somehow be able to avoid the media calling them anti-Hispanic for some newly-invented ‘micro-aggression’...was never going to happen anyway.

So between the threat of no big money and, most likely, the inability of the Republican candidates to do their own polling at that time, they all acceded to the demands, and just as in 2008 and 2012, immigration was ‘just another issue’, at best.

Yet the Republican base is and has been SEETHING about the issue for almost a decade...so Trump was no genius, Cruz could have done the same, and Sanatorum, for that matter. But they did not. It doesn’t mean they supported Amnesty, it just meant that they felt constrained by party dictates.


74 posted on 11/27/2015 9:05:38 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

“But don’t worry, Rove and Yeb tell us that Trump will fail when the voting begins and we rubes come to our senses and realize we NEED a mature and calm voice of experience as ‘our candidate’.”

Yeah, they keep saying that so often I keep wondering when that’s going to happen to me. When is this magical, mystical transformation going to invade my thinking processes, you know, sort of like becoming a pod-person?

So, each morning I wake up and ask myself: “Is this the morning that I’ve switched from supporting Trump to supporting Jeb because Jeb is putatively the very quintessence of a mature and calm voice of experience?”

So far, nothing. But I’m still gonna check every morning: I REALLY don’t want to turn into a Jebby pod-person.


75 posted on 11/27/2015 9:12:03 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Hostage

“Why are Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul, John Kasich, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee and Lindsey Graham still in the race?”

Whatever the reasons that they are still in the race, their presence is performing the commendable function of splitting the RINO vote into multiple, tiny fractions. I hope they all stay in the race until the bitter end, as it is a tremendous help for Trump.


76 posted on 11/27/2015 9:17:25 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Caipirabob

I think Carson has wanted out for a long time, and doubly so once the GOPe selected him as the guy to take out Trump.

Look at all the political suicide moves he’s made in the last month or more.


77 posted on 11/27/2015 9:29:40 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Amntn; USS Alaska
We "Trumpkins" put up with a daily barrage on nearly every Trump thread from Cruz supporters with TDS.

The constant attacks are what has turned some "Trumpkins" away from Cruz.

I resist the urge to turn away from Cruz when I see ugly behavior from people who claim to be Cruz supporters.

I suspect some of them are really GOPe operatives who pretend to be Cruz supporters. They then behave belligerently and un-Cruz-like against Trump and Trump supporters.

This lets them damage both Trump and Cruz in the process.

It would be nice if true Cruz supporters would denounce the belligerents, telling them they are damaging Cruz's cause and reputation. It's up to them to protect Cruz.

78 posted on 11/27/2015 9:30:29 AM PST by Vision Thing
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To: Hostage

My theory, not my only theory on this, but in part they are there in part to prevent Trump from going over 50%.

When they drop out there will be a big realignment in peoples thinking, and more than just the supporters of those losers will reassess their chosen candidate.

50% is a watershed number, all hell will break loose at that point.


79 posted on 11/27/2015 9:38:40 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: mbrfl

LOL!

Mine too.


80 posted on 11/27/2015 9:40:53 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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