Trump Remains Frontrunner After Debate

[applegrove]

Trump Remains Frontrunner After Debate



http://politicalwire.com/2015/08/09/trump-remains-frontrunner-after-debate/

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A new NBC News/Survey Monkey poll taken after the first GOP presidential debate finds Donald Trump still leading the field with 23%, followed by Ted Cruz at 13%, Ben Carson at 11%, Carly Fiorina at 8%, Marco Rubio at 8%, Jeb Bush at 7%, and Scott Walker at 7%.

Chuck Todd explained on Meet the Press that it was a “scientific” online survey.



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[greenman3610]

1. more here

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/poll-trump-remains-in-commanding-lead-after-debate-drama

Despite a debate in which Fox moderators repeatedly attacked him and three days of hostile press coverage which came after it, Donald Trump remains in a commanding lead in the race for the Republican nomination, according to a poll released Sunday evening by NBC News. The results confound weekend press coverage suggesting Trump's campaign was foundering.

The online poll was conducted by the Analytics Unit of NBC News and the University of Pennsylvania's Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies over a 24 hour period from Friday evening into Saturday, thus coming entirely after the debate on Thursday evening.

According to poll, Trump has the support of 23% of Republican voters, followed by Ted Cruz with 13%, Ben Carson with 11%, Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina tied at 8% and Jeb Bush and Scott Walker at 7%. The poll showed Trump essentially unchanged from a poll taken one week ago in which he garnered 22% support.

Numerous commentators speculated over the weekend that Trump's public spat with Fox News host Megyn Kelly might finally spell the end of his surge in the polls. Top Republicans openly cheered his apparent downfall. But NBC's weekend poll suggests that assumption was misplaced.

[applegrove]

2. Thanks.

[AndreaCG]

3. I wonder what the MOE is

And how it skewed re age, because I would think older voters would be less represented online.

[TlalocW]

10. Isn't that quite the big drop for Bush and Walker

Weren't they 2 and 3 behind Trump in the upper teens?

TlalocW

[applegrove]

17. Yup. I didn't see the debate but people say neither

Bush nor Walker did very well.

[Renew Deal]

4. The real story is the race behind Trump shuffled.

Fiorona took off. The top three candidates are the three most bombastic.

[applegrove]

5. It is like fox viewers can feel anything anymore unless they are hit over the head with it.....

did I say that out loud?

[daredtowork]

7. The Fiorina story is almost as crazy as the the Trump story

She is known in California as a blowhard and a serial loser...but yet the GOP keeps going back to her...

[Renew Deal]

8. They need her in the top tier

So they don't all look like angry men.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. In many ways she is just like Trump - hyper egotistical. Anyone who gets fired from

a major corp and turns it into something good is f'in crazy.

She is, by far, the most puke worthy to me.

Her ex-husband said don't believe her bs about he climbing from secretary to CEO - she took a secretarial job during a period between law school and business school just to make ends meet....not as a true start to her rise to the top.

She is remarkably uncaring about other human beings - saying that she's now against the pre-existing provision in ACA - which helps many with getting the care they need to battle breast cancer - which she herself did - being lucky enough to afford care.

[tblue37]

16. ANd Bush and Walker, who were doing better than all but Trump, tanked big time. nt

[hay rick]

6. "News" media have a love/hate relationship with Trump.

They love him because he is reliably outrageous. He's good copy. They hate him because his bogus campaign wouldn't be possible if they hadn't long ago traded in their journalistic ethics to become paid shills for corporate interests.

[Egnever]

9. I am more amused that so many think it would be otherwise

Trump is speaking their language and not tiptoeing around it. The idea it would hurt him is so fundamentally flawed I find it hard to understand anyone thinking it would

[yuiyoshida]

11. I wonder what the next move will be

by the Koch Brothers? They can't have this! Will Fox news try to destroy him? Will Limbaugh back him? Not that I care, but this tends to be fairly entertaining, ya know, Like watching Rhonda Rousey pummel her opponent in under half a minute, or "smelling what THE ROCK is cooking" during a WWF steel cage match.

[restorefreedom]

12. personally, i am glad

that debate was a gop hit job on trump, and it failed miserably.

the revolution against the established ruling class continues......

[ecstatic]

13. I checked out his Facebook page

I can't believe how outrageous and un-presidential his posts are. And he has thousands of crazy supporters commenting as if what he's saying is normal! I don't know if they're paid or what, but wow!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. That's what they like - someone who talks like they do in their living rooms. I was thinking that

the right has completely lost patience with their politicians who say they will ban abortion, stop gay rights, stop illegal immigration without making any progress. So they are turning to a brass businessman who seems very powerful and says whatever the hell he wants - hoping he will succeed.

[reformist2]

14. What's really troubling for the GOP is that their anointed one, Jeb, is tied for 5th place.

They have their work cut out for them.

[tblue37]

15. Jeb took a big hit! (He had been in 2nd place.) nt

[Arugula Latte]

18. Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ, their base is looney tunes.

[B Calm]

23. Haven't you heard? Fox News is LIBERAL!

[davidn3600]

19. Fiorina and Carson climbing, Jeb and Walker falling

Not many expected that.

[Adrahil]

20. Attention: Ignore that "poll."

It is a self-selected internet poll. It's fucking useless. Wait till later this week for real polls.

[summerschild]

24. Did anyone besides the political pundits

really jump to the conclusion Trump was referring to "menstrual period"????

It barely registered with me - it was an incomplete sentence/thought. When I did slow down to consider it it was to conjure up a "zombie" kind of picture.

My head just doesn't work the way the politicians do, I guess.

I'm sick to death of Trump. He's an idiot. But idiots bigger than him took those words and turned them into menstrual or hormonal! And apparently it worked - just not well enough to shake him out.