CNN/ORC Poll: Trump alone at the top again

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Donald Trump is once again alone at the top of the Republican field, according to the latest CNN/ORC Poll, with 36% of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents behind him, while his nearest competitor trails by 20 points.

Three candidates cluster behind Trump in the mid-teens, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 16%, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 14% and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 12%. All other candidates have the support of less than 5% of GOP voters in the race for the Republican Party's nomination for president.

Carson (down 8 points since October), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (down 5 points to 3%) and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (down 4 points to 1%) have lost the most ground since the last CNN/ORC poll, conducted in mid-October.

Cruz (up 12 points) and Trump (up 9 points) are the greatest beneficiaries of those declines. Rubio is also up slightly, gaining 4 points -- an increase within the poll's margin of sampling error -- since the last CNN/ORC poll.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/04/politics/donald-trump-poll-cnn-orc-national/index.html

[another_liberal]

1. The Republican Party has lost something . . .

The "Party of Lincoln" has clearly lost either its mind or its soul, and maybe both.


(sigh)

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Go Trump Go!!!!!

Hillary or Bernie would trounce Trump.
It would be both an electoral college and popular vote landslide.
Please, please let him get the gooper nomination!

[another_liberal]

13. Our State has an open primary . . .

If Hillary and Bernie have sorted things out by then, I may vote for Trump in the Republican primary, just to help assure the Republican establishment doesn't find a way to hand the nomination to someone else.

[yardwork]

19. I don't know.... I never thought w would become president

[leftynyc]

23. But remember Bush was the establishment

choice. That's where all the money and advertising dollars went. The establishment hates Trump. I'm hearing rumblings about the anti-Trump delegates all getting together to yank the nomination at the convention (boy, that would be fun to watch).

[yardwork]

24. It would be fun to watch, but I don't trust most voters.

Too many people would happily elect a fascist.

[leftynyc]

25. Ain't that the truth

Although I don't put Bush (as a candidate) as the same as Trump. Bush was folksy, smiled a lot, didn't come off as a complete asshole, women liked him. AND he still lost the popular vote.

[Mojorabbit]

35. That is my fear also. nt

[restorefreedom]

36. if that happens

he will sooooo run third to to screw them over.

[leftynyc]

38. I know

That makes my spine tingle in anticipation.

[restorefreedom]

40. INR? kind of puts the establishment gop in a tough spot.

if they run him out, he will run third and guarantee a ge loss. if they don't run him out, he could win the nom and embarass the gop for decades to come.

i almost feel sorry for them

[leftynyc]

41. I must admit

I usually hate those emoticon thingys but yours did make me laugh. A good way to start a weekend. Have a wonderful one.

[restorefreedom]

42. good, been a tough week for all...you have a great one too! nt

[harun]

32. GOP Central Committee knows this and wants Trump to go away

[renegade000]

7. I'd say it lost its soul with the southern strategy...

Its mind has slowly been degrading for awhile, and has recently reached a fully-demented state.

[another_liberal]

11. Very likely . . .

That is when they began to embrace the worst aspects of our national personality in order to pander for votes. It worked, but the Party signed its suicide note by doing so. The GOP will soon to be gone as a political party, and few will mourn its passing.

[LonePirate]

27. It lost its soul well before then, possibly during the 1920s, if not earlier.

Eisenhower was merely a distraction during the long decline from their greatness in the 1860s.

[Still In Wisconsin]

16. Trump is the love child of the unholy union between the tea party and the Republican establishment..

the ultimate political blowback. They own him now- or maybe more accurately, he owns them.

[rurallib]

3. side note: I am in Iowa and we are innundated with Jeb! commercials

it is beyond ridiculous. Good to see he is throwing his money down the shitter.
Couldn't happen to a better person. He's the smart one you know.

[Blue_Adept]

8. Same here in MA

Since we get the NH overflow and all. A lot of JEB ads and a lot of Christie ads as well.

[yardwork]

20. Is JEB still saying that he will fix it?

[rurallib]

26. I have a remote so I have no idea what Jeb! has to say

Once his ugly mug hits the screen my trigger finger gets a mighty itch, if you know what I mean

[yardwork]

33. I understand completely.

[Metric System]

29. I think he dropped the exclamation point. I saw an ad without it. JEB still made me chuckle.

[OnlinePoker]

30. Could be due to this

$30 million being spent on Jeb ads.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/04/politics/jeb-bush-campaign-free-fall-3-percent/

[think]

4. If Trump rhetoric matched his theoretical presidency it would be a very scary time to be an American

The idea that he would try to round up millions of people and deport them would destroy America as we know it.

[another_liberal]

15. Stalin would disagree with you on that . . .

Multi-million-person round-ups and removals worked great for him on several occasions.


(sarcasm, of course)

[morningfog]

9. I am not so confident that Hillary would bear him.

[hollowdweller]

39. Hillary will lose to Trump.

I hope not. But I think so.

She's pushing gun control and minimizing economic issues for the working class.

Dems always lose when they push social issues over economic issues.

[padfun]

6. The sad thing is

The three right behind him would be even worse as president.

[groundloop]

17. Worse than Trump !!!! - That's a damned low bar to crawl under

Damn, it was scary enough a year or so ago thinking that Jeb would likely be the nominee and might-possibly-maybe have a chance to be elected (with a little help from Diebold). But now.... it's downright horrifying trying to imagine Trump, Carson, or Cruz in the White House.

[SmittynMo]

10. I just love the fact

that here is a loudmouth, ignorant, no filter, reality show idiot, making a total mockery of the well educated, long standing, finely tuned arrogant politicians. Note the sarcasm in that statement.

And the best part? It don't matter who they put up there, they are going to lose the election big time. Apparently, with the GOP and the media, it's all about shock and awe. All of them are total idiots!!!

[NurseJackie]

12. I should be totally disgusted. But part of me is very pleased.

This is just the beginning of the end of that party.

[BlueStater]

14. What a fucking mess.

It would take a miracle for this assclown to lose now and, even if he does, the three morons closest to him are just as bad. I'm in total and utter disbelief.

[Gregorian]

18. Alone at the top of what? Bullshit mountain?

This election is exciting in a frightening way. Not only that, but it's as sane as it is insane. From Bernie to Ben. Full spectrum election!

[KansDem]

28. Remember when Bush was "alone at the top" of the GOP?

[greenman3610]

21. I support Trump as the True Face of the modern GOP

truth in advertising - the GOP is
arrogant, ignorant, racist, and hate based.

Go Donald!

[yallerdawg]

22. Bill Clinton's buddy...

is making sure no Republican is going to win the presidency in 2016.

Reminds me of a new show trailer I saw: "What's the point of having F**k You money, if you never say F**k You?"

Trump is just showing us what unlimited wealth, celebrity and television can get you in America!

Go, Trump, Go!

[Jesus Malverde]

31. Lol bush at 3%

Kharma for him and his family.

[Nitram]

34. it's lonely at the top! nt

[Beacool]

37. The Republican party has finally lost whatever brain cells they had left.

On a positive note.

&quot CNN)—In a Democratic field that has winnowed to just three candidates, Hillary Clinton has regained a dominant lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, topping him by a 28-point margin, her widest in CNN/ORC polling since July.

Clinton leads Sanders 58% to 30%, with former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley registering just 2%, according to a CNN/ORC Poll released Friday."

[DCBob]

43. Unfortunately Trump will benefit from the terror incident in California.

If this shit continues up to election day Trump could actually win this thing, primary and general. Its a very scary thought.