Posted on 01/26/2016 6:56:37 PM PST by dangus
whatever that poll actually is (with only 222 respondents nationally), and it’s hard to tell from the posted page, here’s a link to a reuters poll from 1/22/2015 that shows Trump at 40.6% and Cruz at 10.5%:
“Republican front-runner candidate Donald Trump has a big lead in the race for the 2016 presidential nomination nationally, swamping his opponents with a 40.6 percent share of those surveyed, a Reuters-Ipsos tracking poll found on Friday.
The survey of 582 respondents found Trump with a higher percentage of the vote than his next four challengers combined, with Texas Senator Ted Cruz drawing 10.5 percent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson with 9.7 percent, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush at 9.2 percent and Florida Senator Marco Rubio with 7.2 percent.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-idUSMTZSAPEC1MDJJ32Q
Now here’s the poll YOU posted, only no filters, which includes 935 respondents:
Trump: 42.1%
Cruz: 31.8%
Go peddle you fake polls elsewhere.
Like CAPS much?
Caps show how committed I am! ;-)
If Canada’s laws dictate our Presidential qualifications, maybe we could ask them to pass a law that says Hillary is a citizen, so that she can’t run for US President.
Or, they could pass a law that says we are all Canadian citizens, and then none of us could run for President of the US...
Just thinking...
The filters are selecting Republicans who say they will vote.
“The filters are selecting Republicans who say they will vote.”
Liar. The filter you selected states quite clearly “Likely Republican PRIMARY voter”, which has almost nothing to do with the national outlook once Trump is nominated.
I’ll repost YOUR link so everyone can check it out for themselves.
http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/TM764AY15/filters/LIKELY_PRIMARY15:1,PARTY_ID_:2
Oh, you mean the link I provided myself in the heading? Yes, I meant “who say they will vote in the primaries.”
The distinction is that Reuters gets BIGGER margins for TRUMP than other pollsters by believing voters when they say they will vote.
Other pollsters set their likely voter pool by demographically altering their results to match the profile of 2012 GENERAL ELECTION voters.
If the turnout is typical of actual primary voters, the result will skew waaaay more towards Cruz, but I find plausible the argument that Trump will inspire people who don’t normally vote to come out to the polls... even though those people normally lie to pollsters and say they’re “absolutely certain” they’ll vote.
P.S.
It’s amazing how Trump people throw the word “liar” around so casually.
“Yes, I meant “who say they will vote in the primaries.””
then why did it take 66 posts before you corrected your “error” and only RIGHT AFTER someone pointed out the egregious nature of said error?
I didn’t make an error. You misunderstood what I said, so I clarified.
“You misunderstood what I said, so I clarified.”
ROTFLOL!
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