Morning Consult Poll.... Trump 35 - Carson 20

[Vigilante]

Just a friendly reminder that Iowa doesn't mean much as they picked Huckabee, and Santorium the last 2 presidential elections...Ben's RELIGION plays a dramatic role in the Iowa primary.

Morning Consult ^ | 10/26/2015 | Morning Consult
Trump continues to lead the GOP field with 35 percent of the vote, down from the 40 percent who said they would support him in last week’s Morning Consult tracking survey. Carson finishes in second place, with 20 percent of the vote....

 

[Vigilante]

• AP-GfK Poll: Republican voters view Donald Trump as most electable in 2016 general election
  The Minneapolis Star Tribune ^
  Republican voters view Donald Trump as their strongest general election candidate, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that highlights the sharp contrast between the party's voters and its top professionals regarding the billionaire businessman's ultimate political strength. Seven in 10 Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters say Trump could win in November 2016 if he is nominated, and that's the most who say so of any candidate. By comparison, 6 in 10 say the same for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who, like Trump, has tapped into the powerful wave of antiestablishment anger defining the early phases of the 2016 contest....

 

[Delta4Embassy]

heh

Don't worry Dr. Carson, drop low enough and people will at least feel sorry for you.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Enough with these lightweight threads in the Politics Forum. The horse race is about the elections. We have an Elections Forum

btw, fyi, dumbo says look, don't look, think of the past, la, la, la, la la
Republicans

• 2012 - Rick Santorum (25%), Mitt Romney (25%), Ron Paul (21%), Newt Gingrich (13%), Rick Perry (10%), Michele Bachmann (5%), and Jon Huntsman (0.6%)[12]
• 2008 – Mike Huckabee (34%), Mitt Romney (25%), Fred Thompson (13%), John McCain (13%), Ron Paul (10%), Rudy Giuliani (4%), and Duncan Hunter (1%)
• 2004 – George W. Bush (unopposed)
• 2000 – George W. Bush (41%), Steve Forbes (31%), Alan Keyes (14%), Gary Bauer (9%), John McCain (5%), and Orrin Hatch (1%)
• 1996 – Bob Dole (26%), Pat Buchanan (23%), Lamar Alexander (18%), Steve Forbes (10%), Phil Gramm (9%), Alan Keyes (7%), Richard Lugar (4%), and Morry Taylor (1%)
• 1992 – George H. W. Bush (unopposed)
• 1988 – Bob Dole (37%), Pat Robertson (25%), George H. W. Bush (19%), Jack Kemp (11%), and Pete DuPont (7%)
• 1984 – Ronald Reagan (unopposed)
• 1980 – George H. W. Bush (32%), Ronald Reagan (30%), Howard Baker (15%), John Connally (9%), Phil Crane (7%), John B. Anderson (4%), and Bob Dole (2%)
• 1976 – Gerald Ford (45%) and Ronald Reagan (43%)