Video - https://www.dropbox.com/s/xl8rryik2smv4uc/Cruz1.mp4?dl=0
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is inexplicably also running for President, said Donald Trump was “inflicting permanent damage on the GOP.” He wants him booted.
Now that’s funny! I guess the gopE could get damaged more. But they’ve pretty well been operating a circular firing squad since 2000. They started shooting more accurately beginning in 2008.
Mmmm...guess the Donald’s not dead yet.
Reince Prebus is deeply sadned.
It's not stunning to people who understand how most viewers viewed the ambush the Foxes had planned for Trump, and had been bragging and gloating about on the air for two or more weeks before the debate.
Trump (23), Cruz (13), Carson (11
Hehehe...the RINOs, the media, and the DNC don’t like what the American people are brewing up.
Fox kicked The Donald in the balls. What they forgot is that his are made of iron.
LOL
Did anyone here get polled? I didn’t get polled.
Ben Carson has added over 75,000 followers since August 1 which is very impressive.
While Trump continues to dominate the Twitter follower growth (he added 30,000 followers in the past 24 hours alone), he is obviously providing some cover for these non-establishment candidates to gain some attention in this race.
Meanwhile, the follower growth of most of the GOPe candidates is flat.
| Name | Twitter Handle | 8/1/2015 | 8/9/2015 | Gain |
| Donald Trump | @realDonaldTrump | 3,409,127 | 3,620,877 | 211,750 |
| Marco Rubio | @marcorubio | 772,150 | 805,930 | 33,780 |
| Rand Paul | @RandPaul | 654,236 | 665,070 | 9,279 |
| Ben Carson | @RealBenCarson | 393,107 | 467,273 | 74,166 |
| Ted Cruz | @tedcruz | 443,426 | 463,915 | 20,489 |
| Carly Fiorina | @CarlyFiorina | 384,524 | 440,195 | 55,671 |
| Mike Huckabee | @GovMikeHuckabee | 378,172 | 387,172 | 9,456 |
| Rick Perry | @GovernorPerry | 305,523 | 310,472 | 4,949 |
| ¿Jeb Bush | @JebBush | 239,197 | 254,622 | 15,425 |
| Rick Santorum | @RickSantorum | 236,439 | 238,860 | 2,421 |
| Bobby Jindal | @BobbyJindal | 203,428 | 207,292 | 3,864 |
| Scott Walker | @ScottWalker | 167,564 | 183,525 | 15,961 |
| John Kasich | @JohnKasich | 80,497 | 93,327 | 12,831 |
| George Pataki | @GovernorPataki | 45,350 | 45,606 | 256 |
| Chris Christie | @ChrisChristie | 40,234 | 41,059 | 825 |
| Linda Graham | @LindseyGrahamSC | 23,043 | 23,921 | 878 |
| Jim Gilmore | @gov_gilmore | 356 | 795 | 439 |
The sane segment of the Republican Party wants Linda Graham booted, but the ignorant GOPe voters of SC keep re-electing this wasted opportunity.
“the highest poll ranking of a candidate acceptable to the Republicans in D.C. is Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), in fifth place with just 8 percent. This is stunning considering the obvious attacks on Trump by Fox moderators, ...”
Not quite correct. Fiorina would be perfectly OK for the R’s in D.C. And she was ranked 4th. That doesn’t refute the main point of the article.
Between them, the top three are anti-establishment and took 50% of the R vote in the poll.
Early online polls will affect the “scientific” polls to follow. It’s the herd mentality of the American voter.
It has to be said, the Gravis poll also showed, Paul as the biggest loser but Trump 2nd losing. How they can say Dr. Ben won, I have no idea but if you read the details, they seemingly did poll over 900 registered Republicans.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ben-carson-scores-big-win-at-the-first-gop-debate-followed-by-marco-rubio-300125436.html
The first debate was interesting but I would not exaggerate its importance.
3 of the top 4 have never held elective office before. Sad state of affairs for the GOP. Hillary is jubilant.
All the articles and talking heads were saying Kasich was the big winner from the debates.
Yeah. The real new is Cruz moving to second.
If Trump stays in the race betcha that he still has <25% of the vote by new years day. Trumpkins are stubborn but not growing in number.
TRUMP/CRUZ!!!
Three out of the top four are outsiders and the one insider is the only bona fide conservative of the lot, with the GOPe bunch at the bottom, so VERY encouraging news right now. Let’s hope the actual primaries will reflect this apparent revolt of the peasants.