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With terror overseas and fear at home, Donald Trump’s brand of bellicosity – making incendiary comments about Syrian refugees and American Muslims – is ruling the day in the polls.
While Clinton holds a 43-point lead (65.5 percent to 22.4 percent) over Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side, she continues to trail in head-to-head matchups with the GOP frontrunners, with Carson holding the biggest margin at 9.7 points (50.2 percent to 40.5 percent).
And a Morning Consult poll released this week shows Trump at 38% and Carson at 19%. In that poll, also surveying Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, Trump recieved 23 per cent of Republican primary voters. Those include scrapping the state’s civil service system and the Government Accountability Board. Republican men and women also prefer Trump by seven points to his nearest competitor. Many pundits expected that Trump, a business mogul and former reality TV star with no national security experience, would suffer in the polls after a terrorism attack in Paris Friday night killed or wounded hundreds.
The gains made by Trump on what in essence is a foreign policy issue has most political experts totally confused.
Whetsell added: “It looks to me as though Carson is down a few points, and Rubio (fighting for third place) has probably been the beneficiary of that”.
Among Florida Republican registered voters surveyed, Trump leads with 36 percent, Rubio is at 18 percent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 15 percent, Texas U.S. Sen. A total of 52 percent picked Clinton as the best Democratic candidate while Republicans chose Trump with 33 percent. Mr. Kasich was followed by Mr. Trump at 20 percent and Mr. Bush at 16 percent.
A new Marquette Law School Poll reveals a close race for the GOP presidential nomination in the Badger State. Our poll surveyed 389 Republicans and 369 Democrats.
Candidates hit the stumpDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledges supporters after filing papers to be on the nation’s earliest presidential primary ballot, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, in Concord, N.H. The overall sample has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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“Carson’s greatest strength has always been who people think he is as a person”, said J. Ann Selzer, whose Iowa-based Selzer & Co. conducted the poll.
