Posted on 08/30/2015 5:51:15 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A pollster in Iowa said on Sunday that Donald Trump is defying political logic with his 2016 GOP presidential campaign.
Ann Selzer added that Trump is converting skeptics in the Hawkeye State in a way she has never previously encountered.
“A few months ago, he had the highest unfavorable [rating] of anybody,” Selzer said of Trump on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“And people said, ‘Well, he can’t possibly do any better in the horse race because his unfavorable [ratings] are so high,’” said Selzer, president of the Selzer & Company polling firm in Des Moines. “Can you ever really turn those around?”
“I said, ‘You know, we’ve seen everything happen,' ” she told host John Dickerson. “And we’ve certainly seen it happen this time.”
Selzer pointed out her organization’s latest poll as proof that Trump is winning the respect of everyday Iowans.
The new Bloomberg/Des Moines Register sampling released on Saturday has the outspoken billionaire scoring a 61 percent favorability rating.
He earns a 35 unfavorability rating, the survey added, a nearly complete reversal since the last Bloomberg/Des Moines Register sampling in May.
“He now has seven people with higher unfavorable [ratings] than he has, and that includes Jeb Bush,” Selzer said Saturday, referencing the former GOP governor of Florida.
“He has grown his favorability and its turned into votes,” she added of Trump’s fortunes in Iowa.
Saturday’s poll also said that Trump leads the race in Iowa for next year’s GOP presidential nomination with 23 percent support.
The latest RealClearPolitics average of national samplings, meanwhile, also has the New York business mogul ranked first in the Republican field with 23.5 percent.
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What do they do now?
Try to make deals with him? Get Trump to make concessions? Get their people placed in Trump’s cabinet or on Trump’s Staff. Sabotage?
Obviously, Trump is very talented.
Color me not surprised at that. The Blue-Dog and Yellow-Dog Democrats are breaking hard for Trump. (Note: It was the Blue-Dog Democrats that broke big for Reagan in 1984.)
I don’t worry about it. The first actual vote doesn’t take place till February.
We’ve demanded an end to politics as usual. Do we have the cohones to seize the day, I wonder?
One needs no microphone nor megaphone when WTP have TRUMP. When he first began this race, people didn’t believe it would happen. Well, it did and he’s in. All the man needed was to study his show. He learned well. Go TRUMP BTW that pic of Jib Jeb on Drudge is one for the books. The Bush looks totally defeated and deflated. Go TRUMP!!
Are you an amateur radio guy by any chance? Your background sounds just like one of my favorite radio contacts.
My family left Iowa all the way back in 1978 and moved to Illinois. (Don't get me started on this hell hole of a state!) I'd not been back to Iowa at all until about 3 or 4 years ago now when I went to Lincoln, Nebraska for an amateur radio contest.
I stopped in Altoona for gas, drove around a bit, realized I didn't recognize a thing and got back on I-80 West to Nebraska.
Well, they fell for one slick talker in Obama so I guess it makes sense that they're doing so for Trump.
(Ducking in preparation for the incoming flak!)
The other night in a small food take out place this Middle Eastern guy walks in upset about something talking to the cashier loudly. I asked him what’s the matter and after he told me he personal stuff then shared that he likes Trump and he’s for Israel too. He is a christian BTW. Just Wow...
There's an old rule in politics that once you're caught in the trap of answering every single one of your opponents allegations, your campaign is effectively over.
The only people who don't know Jeb's campaign is over is Jeb, and his campaign manager. (Trust me on this: Jeb's wife knows it's over already. Women have that kind of sense.) When Jeb loses more fiscal support from his big donors (he's already lost some big ones...) reality will hit home and he'll have to come to grips that his campaign was over long before he knew it.
Not just him, there’s a handful of “hate on all things Trump” that will probably just ignore this news.
It’s ok. For now.
It shows whatever you want it to show I guess. Perhaps people are tired of sticking to a political party that turns around and kicks them in the teeth.
Idiots and cowards for the most part, I would agree.
No excuse when a Northeastern liberal posing as a conservative being told what to say by consultants to please whatever crowd he’s talking to whether it jives with his previous statements or not including: Abortion, Health Care, Immigration, Taxes, Trade, State’s Rights, The Courts, 08 Financial Crisis. Any other candidate would have been tossed off like a clown.
But because of Trump worship, it doesn’t matter that he’s to the left of even the GOPe, he’s just “different”. The guy could literally rob a bank on video and you’d still be here looking for a way to defend it.
You can’t back up your support for Trump on anything other than words, and it’s been shown again and again his words have been contradictory. So all you have to go on is faith and trust, which I think is an insult to the other conservative candidates in this race that deserve far more trust than Trump ever should based on their records.
There’s not 1 Trump supporter on this entire site that has managed to defend Trump on the basis of any facts. I have read other interactions between the Cruz/Walker/Carson supporters and Trumpsters and it’s always the same thing. We bring up the facts on your guy and you all either ignore it or resort to personal attacks because that’s all you have.
Calling Trump supporters idiots is not a personal attack though. It’s backed up by the facts I described above. But there’s also another class of people behind Trump which I call the “cowards”. These are the Trumpsters that are too afraid to run a candidate on a solid conservative platform because they think America is too watered down to buy into another Reagan-like candidate such as Cruz, so they think the only chance is to pretend a reality TV star can pass himself off as a conservative to liberal voters. That is NOT the Reagan way and NOT how Reagan won two landslides.
So point to all the numbers you want. Trump could go 90% in the polls, but that will not make him a conservative and you know it. And until Trumpsters here start defending their support with logical facts that show beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump can be trusted and that he’ll actually govern as a conservative, I stand by my previous comment.
See my new tagline. From someone who actually deserves to be trusted.
You like Iowans so much and yet call them “dumb”...
stay classy.
I was for Trump even before that, way back when he was called Perot :)
You certainly win the award for being the most condescending. Wonder what Cruz would think of your schtick?
Never did get a ham radio license however. I was more of a listener. Though I did have a CB radio for a while (that bored me to tears).
I go out to Illinois every couple years as I have relatives in Naperville. Now Naperville is probably the most conservative town in the metro Chicago area. Not that that's saying much. On one trip out there, I stayed at a resort in Sheridan. Now that place reminded me of Iowa. It was in the middle of nowhere.
This latest Iowa poll is not only about Donald Trump. It’s also about how volatile the primary situation is and how quickly and decisively things can change.
Next month will be different.
Once Joe Biden enters the race, he will be the center of media attention. Donald Trump will then start looking like last month’s Flavor of the Month.
At the moment, Donald Trump’s poll numbers in Iowa are 23%, while Ben Carson’s are 18%. By the time the excitement of Joe Biden’s entry into the race dies down, Ben Carson could well be leading Donald Trump in Iowa.
Change is the only constant. Not Donald Trump.
Well now you’re talking about the Democrats. You can’t really lay Obama on the Iowa Republicans. I think they went with Huckabee in 2008.
I am 20 minutes away from Naperville. I don't know that Naperville is that Conservative anymore. I'd have to look at the election results last time around to know. Generally speaking, DuPage County (which Naperville is in...) is solidly Conservative.
Well, "Conservative" by Illinois' standards. Then, I consider myself a Conservative and most of my friends say I'm far to the right of Rush Limbaugh.
Oh, BTW a very good amateur radio friend of mine who lives about 10 minutes from me has one of every single Transmitter, Receiver and Amplifier that Collins ever made. He's a HUGE Collins fan. In his shack one entire wall is dedicated to his Collins equipment and it all works. He restores them as part of his hobby.
Anytime you're visiting relatives in Naperville, would you do this old man a favor and let me buy you a beer to say thanks for your service?
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