In another act of political magic, Trump managed to flip his favorability rating from negative to positive in one poll during the span of a month — a feat that Monmouth University’s Patrick Murray called “astounding.”
“That defies any rule in presidential politics that I’ve ever seen,” Murray, the director Monmouth’s Polling Institute, told The Hill.
Trump’s favorability rose from 20 percent to 52 percent among Republican voters between July and August, Monmouth found.
While a later CNN/ORC poll did not find a similar shift in Trump’s favorability, the Monmouth data was yet another sign that he is a candidate to be reckoned with.
“Throw out the rulebook when it comes to Trump, that’s not even in the parameters of what we see as unusual,” Murray said.
Trump’s dominance of the race has flustered the Republican field, with many of the candidates trying their best to bring him back to earth.
But as the attacks on Trump have intensified, so has his level of support.
Polls released Tuesday show Trump lapping the field in New Hampshire, where he leads his nearest Republican rival by 24 percentage points. The story is the same in South Carolina, where the latest poll gave him a 15-point edge.
No matter how they slant the questions to elicit a negative response, people love The Donald.
I’ve not seen such intensity in a Republican candidate since Reagan who I voted for 1st time I was able @ 18 yrs. old.
Reagan had hutzpah. Said what he meant straight from the heart and meant what he said without backing down or making excuses. It’s what I like about Trump. The more I hear him speak, the more I like him because I detest political correctness along with “born and bred” politicians (and so does he).
The well-funded, slimy, lying, sell-out, Uniparty professional pol model is threatened by Trump.
Here are some facts of life. Pollsters don’t do this stuff for free. They get clients who want to know how we feel about something. They in their expertise and methodical practices set about to create and conduct the most unbiased and scientific accounting of that very question....right?
They get paid money for that, and their prior track record of ‘being right’ allows them to get more money....right?
So. To get and keep business, they have to give the client what they want, or at least a good enough story with good news to keep them in it for the long haul.....
It’s no wonder that right before elections, most polls seem to converge on the real answer - IOW, near the truth. They have to preserve their reputations (those final predictions) for future suckers, errrr clients.
The problem is now that there isn’t a really good way to poll a malaise, a desperation, a disgust - outright anger against the political machine of the status quo. All we want right now is to lash out and gouge somebody, something and hope we draw blood in some symbolic way.
It isn’t Trump that is the conundrum here. The problem is the status quo has lost the base - pissed on them and thrown them away for some illegal Mexican. You can’t blame it on Trump. He’s just the match that will light a fire the likes of which the status quo has not yet seen.
The Republican “leadership” has been stabbing the backs of conservatives for too long, and now they’re surprised by the strength of Trump’s candidacy? The GOP is truly clueless. People are revolting against the GOP and they refuse to see it.
Limbaugh says to understand Trump, just listen to last five or ten minutes of his Iowa speech...he CONNECTS with the people at the rally, let’s them know he is moved that they have come out and stuff...it’s genuine and they know it...so from that point on it does not matter what other people say about the Donald they are with him...made sense to me. I have connected to him because he reminds me a lot of Reagan.
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Ahh..but the GOPe, in their usual Soviet style, is trying to keep Trump off the ballot in SC by making him swear allegiance to the Republican Party. This is the Old Elite that passed the convention rule in 2012 that the millionaires in the party can pick the nominee behind closed doors at the 2016 convention, because they feared the TEA Party conservatives. They never dreamed Donald Trump would steamroll them and have the money to laugh in their faces. They have been revealed as the frauds they are.
It is really important that Trump preserve the possibility of running on a third party ticket. He may be the first third party president, and that would be the revolution in American politics that we desperately need.
Looks to me like the other hopefuls should have come out swinging hard on illegal immigration. What a pity. I wonder why they didn’t? Seems like they don’t know the American public at all.
“Shaky-Legs” Luntz, what a joke. ...GOPe hack.
First time out of the echo chamber for Luntz.
One thing the media and the pollsters and political strategists should all realize by now, Americans are sick and tired of being taken for fools and we’re disgusted with everyone we’ve have entrusted to represent us but who has instead deceived us and we are wise to games the media plays and we are finished with being used as pawns.
When you take people’s trust and violate it time and time again like that, you deserve what you have earned - vengeance.
When/If Trump is president, I hope he’ll launch serious investigations into all the deceptions/crimes by both political parties...we know the GOPe colluded with the Democrats to target conservatives. And we know that corruption runs far deeper than we have evidence of today. This must be a very serious threat, that they’re all thinking about...and that includes the collusions with the media and the EPA and the IRS and the DHS and the FBI and the ICE and the dept of HHS, to undermine the very fabrics of this nation.
It makes one wonder, knowing the depths of the corruption, just how long will Trump live?
Trump started with huge name recognition coming from 30 years plus of biased MSM tut-tut liberals. So most people thought Trump a buffoon or a car salesman. Built in high negatives.
When people actually listen to him, unframed by the MSM elites, it’s a whole ‘nuther thing.
Because the Republican leadership first abandoned the grassroots.
DEATH TO THE GOP..!!
RINO STALINGRAD...
If the GOPe does manage to find a way to sideline him using some flimsy technicality I swear I will BURN THAT MOTHER DOWN!
The traditional (Establishment) rules don’t seem to apply this cycle.
Just as the Republican Party replaced the Whigs, is it time to replace the Republican Party?
They don’t care about their base anymore, they think they can win elections with the illegals vote. It is about as subtle as the nose on my face where their allegiance lies.
Gee, we cant stop Obama cause we don’t have the Senate, gee we can’t stop Illegal’s because we don’t have the White House, Gee we can’t stop spending cause we don’t have....?
We can’t stop money going to PP cause we don’t have the balls!!
Pollsters should never be dumbfounded by results...if they don’t have a political objective. They, of course, do.