Breaking NBC/WSJ Poll: Cruz Surges Ahead of Trump

[MrWendel]

This just in:

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has fallen behind Ted Cruz in the national GOP horserace, according to a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

In the poll, Cruz is the first choice of 28 percent of Republican primary voters, while Trump gets 26 percent. They’re followed by Marco Rubio at 17 percent, John Kasich at 11 percent, Ben Carson at 10 percent and Jeb Bush at 4 percent.

[randys1]

1. I dont know how this country could allow Cruz to be prez, but it could if we have

hard feelings.

[tabasco]

2. If I live to see that day,

I'm moving to Europe. No kidding. Got family there. I don't want to be present for the fascist downfall of America.

[randys1]

3. Costa Rica for me

[Monk06]

13. If Cruz gets the nomination Trump will go third party If that happens the GOP are finished for

eight years at least Maybe more

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. ...

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/269721-canadian-island-to-americans-move-here-if-trump-wins


I'm sure they will do the same for Cruz...

[Frustratedlady]

4. This is quite a change overnight.

What/who triggered this? I don't pay much attention to polls, as they are rarely that close, but it looks like someone is manipulating numbers. JMVHO

[Skittles]

6. Donald telling the truth about the Iraq war sent them into a tizzy

yes indeed

[spanone]

8. chuck todd guessed it might be blowback from blaming bu$h for not keeping us safe

cause the wingnuts don't want to admit the truth yet

[MineralMan]

5. Is that a good thing?

Cruz is a horrible person.

[MrWendel]

7. Is it strange that if...

at gun point, choosing between Trump and Rubio I would usually take the bullet.

But otherwise I would choose God help me Trump?

[NightWatcher]

9. A Reuters/ Ipsos poll just reported on Twitter showed Trump up by 20

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0VR00X

So, one of those is wrong by a lot. I'm guessing that Trump is still way ahead

[libodem]

10. Such a relief it's not a surge of Santorum

[whathehell]

11. I think Trump has better chances in the GE, and so I'd prefer they nominate Cruz

Religious hypocrites with wives working for Goldman Sachs, who sneer at "New York values" have NO chance of

winning a national mandate in this country.

[Vogon_Glory]

12. That's about how I feel, but as a Texan

That's about how I feel, although as a Texan, I don't mind Tedito taking more damage in the Rethugly primary.

I doubt that Paul Sadler, the unknown who ran against The Calgary Kid in 2022, will go at him again. Nevertheless, I still believe that Paul Sadler would have been a far superior US senator than the guy that the wing-nuts and the I'll-vote-fur-him-cuz-he's-a-Republican fools foisted on the rest of us in the Lone Star State.

[whathehell]

14. Thanks for your take on it, Vogan..

What part of Texas do you live in?

[Vogon_Glory]

16. I live in Austin, but I'd feel the same way if

I live in Austin, but I'd feel the same way if I lived in such epicenters of Texas reactionary politics like Tyler, Midland, or Amarillo.

[whathehell]

20. Of course..

Are you a native Texan?

[Vogon_Glory]

21. Yes, born and raised here.

Yes, born and raised here in the Lone Star State. I did go to school out of state for several years (The experience helped teach me how to think), and I did live abroad briefly.

I consider myself the exception, rather than the rule, even if I sometimes think that some of the non-racist notions and occasional political actions of 19th and early 20th century Texas reformers (It wasn't always bigotry 24/7, even if many of their actions and attitudes were appalling) were right on.

I am dismayed at the apotheosis of "stoopid" as the new legislative norm.

[Wednesdays]

15. The poll includes non-Republicans in its sample

So that may very well have skewed the results.

[marmar]

17. Won't matter if Trump wins South Carolina

[Gothmog]

19. Trump was not happy about this

I saw a clip of him on TV being pissed and claiming that the WSJ hates him

[Vogon_Glory]

23. For Once I Concurr With The Donald

For once I concur with the Donald. The WSJ probably DOES hate him.

My personal politics are probably far enough right to incite Bernistas to label me a Jesse Helms Republican (And I admit I like Hillary and think her proposals are more achievable than the honorable senator from Vermont's), but nevertheless I came to the conclusion decades ago that the Wall Street Journal's editorial page was rank propaganda, and not even informed opinion. Even BEFORE the WSJ was taken over by Rupert Murdoch, I had come to believe that the whacko-bird mindset of the editorial pages was seeping onto the accuracy and reliability of what was printed on the WSJ's news pages like what flows from a bank of plugged toilets at sold-out football stadium.

[Adrahil]

22. I think that poll was an outlier. We'll see.

Other recent polls show nothing like that.