Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:10 AM

Donald Trump Hits 49 Percent Support in New National Poll

Source: Abc

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is stretching his lead to its widest margin, garnering support from nearly half of GOP voters nationwide in a new poll today.

Forty-nine percent of Republican voters say they back Trump for the Republican nomination in the new CNN-ORC poll released this morning. Sen. Marco Rubio earns 16 percent support, Sen. Ted Cruz earns 15 percent, Dr. Ben Carson has 10 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 6 percent.

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Trump's support also remains widespread across every demographic group, including gender, ideology, age and even education level, where Trump had lagged behind among voters with a college degree.

Other recent national polling has shown Trump with a double-digit lead and support from about one-third of GOP voters.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-hits-49-percent-support-national-poll/story?id=37279402

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Donald Trump Hits 49 Percent Support in New National Poll (Original post)	Liberal_in_LA	Feb 2016	OP
Among GOP voters	oberliner	Feb 2016	#1
The KKK endorsement is worth 10 points in the GOP	MattP	Feb 2016	#2
My kids made this parody of Trump and it's priceless	turendae	Feb 2016	#3
Lol. Good use of barbie dolls	Liberal_in_LA	Feb 2016	#5
very creative!	big_dog	Feb 2016	#10
Trump has about 20% of the electorate...with highest negatives ever recorded...	Human101948	Feb 2016	#4
And people still say: "I like Bernie; but, Hillary is more electable!"	LongTomH	Feb 2016	#7
Good grief.. this country is going full blast "Idiocracy"	DCBob	Feb 2016	#6
The impotent MSM has succeeded in their endless promotion.	SoapBox	Feb 2016	#8
It's all so disheartening and dismaying - I've run out of words. n/t	moonscape	Feb 2016	#9

Response to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:11 AM

oberliner (58,724 posts)

1. Among GOP voters

Which says quite a lot about that party.

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:13 AM

MattP (3,304 posts)

2. The KKK endorsement is worth 10 points in the GOP

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:24 AM

turendae (1 post)

3. My kids made this parody of Trump and it's priceless

Watch the slides with the poll numbers.

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Response to turendae (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:32 AM

Liberal_in_LA (44,397 posts)

5. Lol. Good use of barbie dolls

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Response to turendae (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 09:01 PM

big_dog (4,144 posts)

10. very creative!

n/t

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Response to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:30 AM

Human101948 (3,457 posts)

4. Trump has about 20% of the electorate...with highest negatives ever recorded...

Do two negatives make a positive?

We’ve got an unpopular set of presidential candidates this year– Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in either party with a net-positive favorability rating — but Trump is the most unpopular of all. His favorability rating is 33 percent, as compared with an unfavorable rating of 58 percent, for a net rating of -25 percentage points. By comparison Hillary Clinton, whose favorability ratings are notoriously poor, has a 42 percent favorable rating against a 50 percent unfavorable rating, for a net of -8 points. Those are bad numbers, but nowhere near as bad as Trump’s.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-really-unpopular-with-general-election-voters/

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 01:25 PM

LongTomH (8,636 posts)