nbc / wall street journal poll shows cruz leading trump by 2% points nationally

[spanone]

WTF?

just announced by chuck toad on m$nbc

toad was speculating that it was a reaction to the 'bush didn't keep us safe' in the debate.

Surprise: Trump falls behind Cruz in national NBC/WSJ poll

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has fallen behind Ted Cruz in the national GOP horserace, according to a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

In the poll, Cruz is the first choice of 28 percent of Republican primary voters, while Trump gets 26 percent. They’re followed by Marco Rubio at 17 percent, John Kasich at 11 percent, Ben Carson at 10 percent and Jeb Bush at 4 percent.

The results from the poll – conducted after Trump’s victory in New Hampshire and Saturday’s GOP debate in South Carolina – are a significant reversal from last month, when Trump held a 13-point lead over Cruz, 33 percent to 20 percent.

Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart and his firm Hart Research Associates, says Trump’s drop could signal being “right on top of a shift in the campaign.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/surprise-trump-falls-behind-cruz-national-nbcwsj-poll

[Xipe Totec]

1. Tough call. Neither of them cuts the mustard but they both cut the cheese. nt

[spanone]

2. both extreme cheese cutters

[WI_DEM]

3. I wonder if it wasn't calculated by Trump who would rather

run as an Independent than a Republican. I figure he might think he has a better chance of winning if the electorate is divieded three ways.

[BainsBane]

4. Well, I personally believe Trump to be the worst of the lot

but Cruz is a close second.

[restorefreedom]

11. i actually feel the reverse...

trump is a xenophobic petulant brat. but cruz strikes me as creepy theocratic dictator type.

i think i would rather have the brat

[Jim Beard]

5. I am the other way around

I think there is some liberalism in Trump but Cruz is another Scalia but being president. Nationally, there are a lot of Cuban and Mexican American in big states like Florida and Texas.

[Jim Beard]

6. Damn, I read the article and its bad because I was really wanting Trump to win.

I can support Hillary and Bernie. I will be satisfied with either and I want them to win.

What I don't want is Cruz or Rubio but mostly Cruz I don't want. I think I will vote for Trump next week by Texas early voting. We don't register by political party in Texas so I can vote for Trump in the primary and the Democrat nominee in November.

I just don think the average Republican will vote for Trump in the long run.

[spanone]

7. cruz wants a theocracy....dangerous

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. Agreed! This is not good news!

[RDANGELO]

9. I am convinced that the Donald is getting ready to run third party.

That is why he went nuclear on the Bushes in the last debate. He thinks he is going to get some of us to vote for him.

[spanone]

10. it was a form of political suicide in the gop...you may be right

[flamingdem]

12. Either way, the dems will benefit

Sorry Tweety Kasich is a bore