Trump Is Crushing the G.O.P. Lilliputians

[Liberal_in_LA]

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee, or at Jeb Bush’s campaign office, when the latest opinion poll from Fox News came in over the weekend. It showed Donald Trump in first place, with twenty-five per cent of likely Republican voters backing him. Ben Carson, the surgeon-turned-politician, was in second place, with twelve per cent. And Ted Cruz, the Texan ultra-conservative, was in third, with ten per cent.

Where were the “serious” G.O.P. candidates? Bush, the establishment favorite, was in fourth place, with nine per cent. Governor Scott Walker, of Wisconsin, who not so long ago was vying with Bush for the lead, was in fifth place, and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, tied in fifth place, with six per cent. Carly Fiorina, the businesswoman, was in seventh place, with five per cent.

These are pitiful numbers, but others did even worse. Senator Marco Rubio, of Florida, and John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, whom many pundits hailed as the victors of the televised debate a couple of weeks ago on Fox News, were locked in a dismal embrace at four per cent. Kentucky senator Rand Paul and Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, both got three per cent. Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, one of the few Republicans to criticize Trump directly, scored zero per cent—yes, zero.

Come on, you might object,that’s just one poll. But it isn’t. On Tuesday, CNN released its latest poll of Republicans and independents who lean Republican, which showed remarkably similar results. Once again, Trump was way ahead of the field, at twenty-four per cent. Bush came in second, at thirteen per cent; Carson was in third, at eight per cent: Walker and Rubio tied for fourth, at seven per cent; Paul was in fifth place, at six per cent.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/trump-is-crushing-the-g-o-p-lilliputians

[Xipe Totec]

1. Gullible's Travels. nt

[Skraxx]

2. Trumpzilla

[n2doc]

3. This actually put it pretty well

Until most of the non-trumps quit no one is going to get more than 10-15%. And they won't quit while they all are basically at the same popularity, or lack thereof. All these polls have a margin of error of several percent, so basically all the non-trumps are the same. That's why each poll has them in a slightly different order.

[unblock]

5. the problem is that the loudmouth is already the front-runner

so as the boredom bots quit one by one, many of their supporters will see the front-runner as the default for second choice.

if all the boredom bots but one quit all of a sudden, trump would probably be toast. but a slow winnowing down will work very well for him.

[n2doc]

7. Polls have also shown that over 60% of republicans hate Trump

So his ceiling is about 30%. I do not think he will get more supporters than that.

[hifiguy]

4. One needn't be much of a giant

to stand out in that laughable company. Lilliputian is a perfect descriptor. The nuts are rising to the top.

[Andy823]

6. It shows just how bad

There rest of the clown car really is!

It seems to me that year after year, since George W. was elected, the field gets worse, not better. These people who want to run the country on the GOP ticket are simply morons! We were told that Jeb Bush was the "smart" one, well that's been prove to be a total lie. We have been told in the past, not sure which republican said it, that the republican party doesn't need a "smart" candidate, just someone who will sign whatever bills the republicans put in front of him, and that's pretty much what they have now, idiots that will do the will of their masters and nothing more.

I think Trump is playing a game here, and sooner or later he will drop out, but until then he is milking the GOP system, making them look like the idiots they really are, and showing the country just how brain dead many of the GOP voters really are, especially the tea party crowd.

Trump has no platform, now real advisers, no real anything that would suggest he is serious, just crazy. Right now the GOP candidates are trying to out "crazy" the Donald, and that pretty much says it all.