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

[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
... a neurosurgeon who is under the delusion that being brilliant qualifies him to be president....
and opening an impressive lead over a stalled Donald Trump, a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows.
The firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
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.

Posted by Fred 2015-12-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Good.

Posted by newc 2015-12-13 00:54|| 2015-12-13 00:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Cowboy boots on the ground.

Posted by Shipman 2015-12-13 07:15|| 2015-12-13 07:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Polls are manipulated? Who'd thunk? "Get on the bandwagon" now! From the news manipulators themselves. Who are you going to believe? And it's Iowa.

I thought we learned the game better at the Rant.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-12-13 08:43|| 2015-12-13 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, yes, wasn't he the one who voted for TPA so TPP could get an up or down vote? Seems he is next up for the GOPe splitter strategy.

Posted by pyromancer76 2015-12-13 09:09|| 2015-12-13 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Unfortunately, winning Iowa is no longer a big deal, and can even hurt your chances.

Posted by Iblis 2015-12-13 11:59|| 2015-12-13 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Never trust polls with less than 1000 sample size even if I really want to believe they are legit.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-12-13 20:36|| 2015-12-13 20:36|| Front Page Top

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