Cruz Soars to Front of the Pack in Iowa Poll; Trump Support Stays Flat

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has surged ahead to become the latest front-runner in the campaign for the Iowa caucuses, dislodging Ben Carson and opening an impressive lead over a stalled Donald Trump, a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows.

The firebrand junior senator from Texas is backed by 31 percent of those likely to attend the Republican caucuses that start the presidential nomination season on Feb. 1. Trump is a distant second at 21 percent, up slightly from 19 percent in October, but below his peak of 23 percent in August.

Cruz's 21-percentage-point jump since October is the largest surge between Iowa Polls recorded in at least the last five presidential caucus campaigns. When first and second choices are combined, he has the support of 51 percent of likely caucus-goers. The senator’s great leap forward comes largely at the expense of Carson, as Iowa’s evangelicals appear to have picked the candidate they want to get behind. The retired neurosurgeon, now barely in third-place, is supported by 13 percent, down from the first-place showing he posted in October, when he was at 28 percent.



Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-12/cruz-soars-to-front-of-the-pack-in-iowa-poll-trump-support-stays-flat-ii3p88rp

[gwheezie]

1. The guy born in Cuba is beating trump?

Trump is going to have to send his people to Cuba.

[starroute]

3. Not Cuba, Canada

His father is Cuban.

[gwheezie]

4. Yeah, sure ya can't fool me and trump

Did anyone see him born in Canada ?

[mobeau69]

7. Eleanor Darragh Wilson is the key.

Has anyone seen her birth certificate?

[AZ Progressive]

2. This is the same state that Mike Huckabee once won.

Doesn't say much other than great publicity if a Republican wins Iowa, likely due to the strong evangelical vote there.

[EL34x4]

10. Huckabee and Santorum, last two cycles.

In a state that has gone GOP only once (2004) since it helped reelect Reagan 20 years prior.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Is that good news?

I can't decide. No one can tell one GOP fascist from another any more.

[libdem4life]

6. Any word on the Democrats?

[Purveyor]

8. Who???? eom

[libdem4life]

9. Yeah, yeah...I know.

[MariaThinks]

11. the gop candidates are all losers - cruz is an absolute right wing fanatic

who would take away funding from most or all social programs as far as I can tell.

I don't know how he would fair in a general election. Is this right-wing fanatic unelectable in a general election?

[Octafish]

12. Will Scalia be called on to ''manage'' some SCROTUS magic?

The guy wasn't even born on an Army base.

[chelsea0011]

13. Media all in a lather over the state that went with Santorem and Huckabee in previous elections

[smirkymonkey]

14. And NO first choice (7%) is still ahead of most candidates in the

Republican Field! What a gang of losers!

[JCMach1]

15. the one person more arrogant and batshite than Trump... makes perfect sense...

plus, you can add creepy to his characteristics...