Posted on 08/10/2015 11:05:31 AM PDT by Will88
Raleigh, N.C. – PPP's newest Iowa poll finds Donald Trump leading the Republican field in the state even after a weekend of controversy. He's at 19% to 12% for Ben Carson and Scott Walker, 11% for Jeb Bush, 10% for Carly Fiorina, 9% for Ted Cruz, and 6% for Mike Huckabee and Marco Rubio. The other 9 candidates are all clustered between 3% and having no support at all (George Pataki)- John Kasich and Rand Paul are at 3%, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum at 2%, Chris Christie at 1%, and Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, and Pataki all have less than 1%.
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Cruz wants to up H1-B visas by 500%. H1-B visa abuse is already killing me!
Walker is the only guy who says he wants to end this program which has caused me literal agony, not to mention made it impossible often to pay bills.
The H1-B issue is beyond personal for me. I've seen the Silicon Valley go from a meritocracy where one both worked hard and played hard, to a crony and race segmented abusive grind house.
I’m not a Paul fan, but it must be difficult to make much ground when one of your top guys gets indicted. That’s hard to deal with.
-— 19% to 12% for Ben Carson and Scott Walker, 11% for Jeb Bush, 10% for Carly Fiorina, 9% for Ted Cruz -—
If they give Cruz more than 3 minutes, they’re toast. I predict two minutes in the next debate.
Bush voters have a 37% favorability rating for Trump Carson 50% Christie 29% Cruz 47% Fiorina 33% Huckabee 55% Kasich 28% Paul 36% Rubio 50% Trump 91% (????) Walker 47%
Which supports my prior claims that Cruz, Huckabee, and Carson supporters would migrate to Trump. I also thought Fiorina's would, and am surprised that Rubio's will.
Hit the link that says ‘show all Iowa polls’.
Yep, she has peaked. She will go downhill with her faux outrage over Trump's comments.
She would have been wise to keep her mouth shut.
Another GOPe puke reveals themselves.
I saw the actual episode.
Easy to explain the timidity. One blip, and they get flipped by their rich donors. Trump is YUUGEly lucky with no rich donors required.
It was definitely highly suspicious the way Fox “declared” Carly the winner of the kiddie table debate. I watched it later on their web site and didn’t think she stood out that much. Several of those candidates were flat-out terrible which she wasn’t but I’d say Santorum won it. I’m not sure how he’s become such a non-entity in Iowa after winning it last time.
She’s very programmed. The only issue I’ve ever seen her get passionate about is tax reform. She really seems like a pod person supplied by the Chamber of Commerce. She’s in this to pave the way for big business. She’s not a true conservative, no way.
Where’d he meet Wifey #3? A bake sale?
Cruz doing the Obamacare filibuster and the shutdown strategy and calling McConnell a liar isn’t exactly playing it safe.
Wish we’d all remember how Cruz stuck his neck out and reward him for it now with our support. How are we going to convince anyone else to stick their neck out for conservatives if they don’t get rewarded for it at the ballot box?
Carly would certainly run a successful campaign as she did in the California Senate race...oh, wait, nm.
We shouldn’t be against someone like Cruz who just recently got into office and tried to change things from the inside.
How would he be a better candidate if he never ran for Senate and this run for President was his first attempt to win elected office?
They want Carly as a VP pick. It is obvious.
Carly wins it, a couple days later she is on a MSM Show acting like she represnts all woman in the war on women.
My husband heard that and was sickened by what she said.
Why do people hate the rich donors when they’re behind the scenes but when one of them runs for president himself, they love him?
Not sure where you got your numbers. Page 11 shows who would be people’s 2nd choice. Cruz people go to Carly and Huck. Carson supporters go to Carly, Cruz, Huck and Walker. Huck guys go to Jeb, Carson and Walker.
Trump is the second choice for Rand, Perry and Santorum voters. That makes sense since Rand is a libertarian not driven by social conservative issues, like Trump, and Santorum is into pushing the blue collar protectionist policies.
Even if Trump remains in the race, Trump supporters may yet be convinced in the end to vote for Ted Cruz when the primaries roll around, especially if Ted is running a strong campaign and gathering momentum. Speaking for myself, if ¿Jeb Bush is knocked out of the race and a true conservative like Cruz has a clear path to the nomination - I'm there. Even if Trump is still in the race. Right now however, it appears that only Trump is poised to knock out ¿Jeb. But like I said, we are six months away and a lot can still happen.
However, the Trump Voters of today will not be as receptive to doing so if they are attacked and belittled today by Cruz supporters. It's human nature 101. You catch more flies with honey.
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