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Title: Poll: Rubio, Walker Have Most Goodwill [Trump dead last]
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WSJ via Weekly Standard
URL Source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs ... l-among-gop-voters_881881.html
Published: Mar 10, 2015
Author: Michael Warren
Post Date: 2015-03-10 11:24:28 by Tooconservative
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Keywords: poll, Trump
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The wide-ranging poll surveyed registered GOP presidential primary voters about the long list of potential candidates, asking if they could see themselves supporting each one. Of those polled, 56 percent said they could see themselves supporting Rubio, with 53 percent saying the same about Walker. Rubio, however, received a higher percentage of those saying they could not see themselves supporting him for president (26 percent) compared to Walker (17 percent). The other candidates register significantly worse ratings on one or both questions. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, for instance, has 53 percent of voters who say they could see themselves supporting him—but 40 percent who say they could not. There are similar numbers for former Florida governor Jeb Bush (49 percent who could support, 42 percent who could not), Kentucky senator Rand Paul (49 percent and 40 percent), and former Texas governor Rick Perry (45 percent and 40 percent). Some potential candidates may suffer from being relatively unknown to Republican primary voters. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, for instance, gets 41 percent from people who say they could vote for him and just 18 percent who say they couldn't, while 38 percent told the pollster they did not know his name. There are similar numbers for Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal (36 percent, 25 percent, and 36 percent), and former HP CEO and California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (18 percent, 25 percent, and 54 percent). Others look deeply in trouble. Fifty-seven percent of those polled said they could not see themselves supporting New Jersey governor Chris Christie, with just 32 percent saying the could. South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham doesn't do any better, with 51 percent saying they could not support him and 20 percent saying they could. And what about Donald Trump? The real estate mogul, media celebrity, and perennial almost-but-not-quite-ran has almost no goodwill among GOP primary voters. A full 74 percent say they could not see themselves supporting the Donald, while 23 percent say they could. (In a testament to Trump's celebrity, just one percent said they didn't know his name, the best rating among the candidates.) The poll also looked at a hypothetical match-up between Jeb Bush and possible Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, measuring the opinions of registered voters overall. Both Bush and Clinton had similiar negative ratings (34 percent and 36 percent, respectively), but while Bush, the brother and son of the former presidents, had just a 23 percent positive rating, Clinton, the wife of another former president, had a 44 percent positive rating.
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A new poll from the Wall Street Journal and NBC News shows Florida senator Marco Rubio and Wisconsin governor Scott Walker have the most goodwill among Republican primary voters ahead of both men's possible bids for the presidency.
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#1. To: TooConservative (#0)
Bull! There is no way rubio, the traitor, the supporter of our borders being invaded, polled above the local garbage man whose name isn't even on the list of potential candidates.
Among people like you and I, who follow this stuff fairly closely, yes, you are right. But the Great Unwashed are too busy with video games and crappy CGI movies and Dancing With The Boobs and watching multi-millionaires play sports games. They don't keep up with nuthin'. It's a mistake in this case to assume other people are as informed. You might say you don't follow it all that much but you probably know more about the various clown pols out there than 95% of the public. The pols rely on public stupidity and apathy to get away with stabbing them in the back. It seems this is true in both parties.
Among people like you and I, who follow this stuff fairly closely, yes, you are right. But the Great Unwashed are too busy with video games and crappy CGI movies and Dancing With The Boobs and watching multi-millionaires play sports games. They don't keep up with nuthin'. And such is the result of allowing other than land owning men to vote.
I'm sure the reasons given were "he's yucky" and "he likes to fire people" and "he's bossy". They don't have a clue where he stands on the issues. To them, the Presidency is strictly a popularity contest. We have a President who was elected strictly on popularity. And how the f**k is that working out?
Oh, Lordy. On top of all your other repulsive and misguided ideas, you support The Donald. It figures.
I was presenting the average polled voter who is ignorant of the issues and doesn't know where the candidates stand on those issues. How does that translate into support for Trump? Other than in your mind?
Stop trying to back away. You declared your love for The Donald and can't wiggle away from it as easily as that.
That's Mister Trump to you.
Whitey knows "bossy" and "yucky", fo sho. The foolproof D&R party strategy is to never give a sucker an even break. Make them choose between the two worst possible candidates. Whoever wins, you lose. Is Hillary really worse than Trump? Who knows, and who wants to find out?
Yep, that's what I thought.
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#2. To: BobCeleste (#1)
There is no way rubio, the traitor, the supporter of our borders being invaded, polled above the local garbage man whose name isn't even on the list of potential candidates.
#3. To: TooConservative (#2)
There is no way rubio, the traitor, the supporter of our borders being invaded, polled above the local garbage man whose name isn't even on the list of potential candidates.
#4. To: TooConservative (#0)
(Edited)
"A full 74 percent say they could not see themselves supporting the Donald ..."
#5. To: misterwhite, DeadCultureWatch, GrandIsland, Deckard, tpaine, hondo68 (#4)
I'm sure the reasons given were "he's yucky" and "he likes to fire people" and "he's bossy". They don't have a clue where [Trump] stands on the issues.
#6. To: TooConservative (#5)
"Oh, Lordy. On top of all your other repulsive and misguided ideas, you support The Donald."
#7. To: misterwhite (#6)
#8. To: TooConservative (#7)
"You declared your love for The Donald ..."
#9. To: TooConservative, Trump-Clinton 2016, The Boss, Mr. Tyrant, Whitey (#5)
"he's yucky" and "he likes to fire people" and "he's bossy"
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#10. To: misterwhite, hondo68 (#8)
(Edited)
That's Mister Trump to you.
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