Posted on 02/26/2016 9:12:34 AM PST by Red Steel
Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders (50%-33%), and Donald Trump leads the Republican field (Trump 38%, Cruz 15%, Rubio 13%), according to The Roanoke College Poll. The Roanoke College Poll interviewed 466 likely Republican voters and 415 likely Democratic voters in Virginia between February 16 and February 24 and has a margin of error of +4.5 percent for the Republican race and + 4.8 for the Democratic contest.
Republicans - Angry electorate favors Trump more than 2-1 over Cruz and Rubio
Donald Trump (38%) holds a commanding lead over his rivals Ted Cruz (15%) and Marco Rubio (13%), with John Kasich (8%) and Ben Carson (8%) trailing the field.
Republicans are mostly divided between being merely dissatisfied with how the federal government is working (47%) and being angry (42%) about how the federal government is working. A significant minority (44%) also feel they have been betrayed by the Republican Party, and more than half (53%) say they prefer a candidate who is outside the political establishment. Those who prefer an outsider are most likely to support Trump (59%), but discontent with the federal government, although ubiquitous among Republicans, makes little difference in Trump's support.
Those who feel betrayed by the party still favor Trump (41%), but they are the strongest group of Cruz supporters (24%). Rubio fares better among those who prefer a candidate with political experience (29%) and those who want a candidate who can win in November (23%). Still, Trump leads in every group except those who prefer a candidate with political experience, who constitute only 30 percent of Republicans.
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Too bad all the Super Tuesday states are proportional.
38% Trump : 36% Cruzbioich
Virginia’s a threshold state, so anybody who fails to get at least 20% of the vote does not receive any delegates at all.
Cruz and Rubio didn't look SOLID or like LEADERS, they looked like debate school grads who crammed the night before and ganged up on a guy.— John Nolte (@NolteNC) February 26, 2016
Undecided or other beats Ted Cruz by 4 percentage points or 26+ percent
Nice.
I would like to see Cruz out of this.
We dont need 2 cabana boys. Might as well stick with the original.
oh yes, babes to grow on the job, and who needs more of those?
“Virginia’s a threshold state, so anybody who fails to get at least 20% of the vote does not receive any delegates at all.”
That is good news. So Trump may in fact get all of Virginia’s delegates. GO TRUMP GO
According to the genius Cruz, third place is first place. I guess they don’t teach lawyers math at Harvard.
GO TRUMP
what happens if a large field of candidates splits the vote so that no one gets 20%? A few months ago this might have been plausible, if unlikely.
I still don’t understand how this felon is leading in the polls?????
Any projections on turnout for Dem’s v Rep? (The article did not opine about relative “enthusiasm”, which will have a lot to do with the results.)
With Clinton polling for a cakewalk victory, there seems little to motivate Clinton Dems to bother voting. Perhaps Sandanistas will have better turnout.
I have been concerned that the non-competitiveness of the Dems with lead to more crossover/vandal voting by Dems in the Republican primary. Will be interesting to see the results.
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