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Marco Rubio Dips Slightly In NH Tracking Poll, Tying With Ted Cruz
TPM ^ | February 8, 2016 | CAITLIN MACNEAL

Posted on 02/08/2016 12:53:06 PM PST by GodGunsGuts

Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican presidential pack in New Hampshire by a wide margin, but Sen. Marco Rubio's surge to second place nearly disappeared in a tracking poll released by the University of Massachusetts Lowell on Monday.

Trump leads his competitors by 21 points, earning 34 percent support from likely Republican primary voters. The real estate mogul's support in the tracking poll has dropped 4 percentage points since the beginning of last week.

After jumping to second place in the tracking poll with 15 percent support at the end of last week, Rubio has dropped by 2 percentage points since Friday, earning 13 percent support in the Monday poll.

The Florida senator tied for second place with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who dropped one point since Friday in the UMass tracking poll.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich both earned 10 percent support in the poll released on Monday...

(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: Ohio; US: South Carolina
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Ted Cruz tied for 2nd place in NH!

Go Cruz, go!!!

1 posted on 02/08/2016 12:53:06 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts; Iowa David; JWinNC; RasterMaster; SunshinesStormySummerSon

If you would like to be added to the
TED CRUZ 2016 PING LIST drop me a FReepmail.


2 posted on 02/08/2016 12:54:08 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Rubio is a knee slapping , belly laugh, joke who is total history. The establishment went back this morning to Jeb “Common Core” “they sneak into our country to love us” bush.


3 posted on 02/08/2016 12:56:26 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: WENDLE

Now we set our sites on Trump.


4 posted on 02/08/2016 12:57:58 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

By the way, I hope Cruz does finish second. But this poll is inflated to make it look like Trump in dropping when the real numbers come in. Don’t take this poll as anything but BS.


5 posted on 02/08/2016 1:00:39 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

[Now we set our sites on Trump]

What kind of sights (not ‘sites’) are you going to set on Trump?

The sight of Trump rising and becoming the nominee while Cruz continues his efforts to lie and cheat his way to a losing nomination??


6 posted on 02/08/2016 1:02:36 PM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: GodGunsGuts

There are millions of Americans who ...DEFLECT...you with their prayers


7 posted on 02/08/2016 1:02:55 PM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: Guenevere
There are millions of Americans who ...DEFLECT...you with their prayers

Just as there are millions of Christians, realizing that Donald Trump, no matter what he says, is more Pro-Choice than he is Pro-Life and are praying to DEFLECT Donald Trump.
8 posted on 02/08/2016 1:08:18 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: GodGunsGuts

It looks like the media is actually going to have to get out there in the snow
and drag Rubio across the finish line if they want him to come in second.


9 posted on 02/08/2016 1:10:45 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Guenevere

That’s funny. But seeing how Ted Cruz takes the majority of the Christian vote...your prayers are no match for our prayers :oP


10 posted on 02/08/2016 1:11:28 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Guenevere

Amen!

This is actually an ouch....for The Rube.....to be tied with CRuz. His poor debate cast him down a few pegs.


11 posted on 02/08/2016 1:11:34 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I chose to counter your post....
because
your words

‘NOW WE SET OUR SITES ON TRUMP’

....gives me absolute chills

ABSOLUTE CHILLS......your words are scary


12 posted on 02/08/2016 1:21:37 PM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I don’t think any of us are going to be happy with number 2. I think it will be Kasich. These are the voters who voted for Ron Paul and Rand Paul.


13 posted on 02/08/2016 1:23:18 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator

These are the voters who voted for McCain in 2000 and 2008. Luckily we didn’t listen to them in 2000.


14 posted on 02/08/2016 1:25:00 PM PST by JediJones (Marco Rubio: When the Establishment Says Jump, He Asks How High?)
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To: WENDLE
this poll is inflated to make it look like Trump in dropping when the real numbers come in. Don’t take this poll as anything but BS.

Scratch a Trumpster, find a conspiracy theorist who has no evidence to back up his theories.

15 posted on 02/08/2016 1:25:55 PM PST by JediJones (Marco Rubio: When the Establishment Says Jump, He Asks How High?)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Prayers aside, winning is in the vote counting. Evangelicals are vocal on platform committees and make platforms that are difficult to sell, sway primaries, and then don’t show up on the big day to vote. In fact, according to Heritage Fdn., only 25% of evangelicals show up on Election Day. Nobody is ever perfect enough. So if it isn’t Ted “Elmer Gantry” Cruz, or Rev. Mike Huckabee, or St. Santorum, will this be another year of Christian no-show’s? As Phyllis Schlafly said, “Jesus isn’t on the ballot this time. Who’s your SECOND choice?” William F.Buckley said he always voted, and he just picked the most conservative candidate on the ballot. That is the way to win elections and get a seat at the table.


16 posted on 02/08/2016 1:46:03 PM PST by MHT (,`)
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To: MHT

Ted Cruz is rebuilding the Reagan Coalition. He is courting the evangelical vote, the liberty vote, the national security vote, the Reagan democrat vote, etc. If he is successful, he won’t need many of the votes the establishment candidates have to compete for, and he won’t have to move to the “mushy middle” to get elected.

That’s why I am voting for Ted Cruz 2016!


17 posted on 02/08/2016 1:53:20 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: MHT

There a millions of evangelicals to turn out that never voted because they had no candidate. An extra 5 million of them in Nov. is far above the margin of RAT vote fraud capacity and the recipe for LANDSLIDE.


18 posted on 02/08/2016 2:01:21 PM PST by txhurl (I'm NO LONGER with the Nasty Canadian '16 (well, unless he wins ;))(and he did))
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To: txhurl

Interestingly, Iowa does not have a higher percentage of evangelicals than the national average. However, they do turn out at a much higher rate than average, at least for Iowa GOP caucuses. So there is some way to motivate them, if it can be repeated elsewhere.


19 posted on 02/08/2016 2:06:58 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: SoConPubbie

I wouldn’t mind being for Trump if I though he was really pro-life and would name Thomases to the Supreme Court.


20 posted on 02/08/2016 2:15:19 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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