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Elections GOP 2016 Primary Thread V5: 2 Hispanics and a Bigot Walk into an Election Edition

Who do you WANT to win the GOP Primary? (Can vote up to 2 options)

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Lead Salad said:
Newest poll out after the debate show no real change at all with South Carolina. Looks like Trump could be taking two in a row with Rubio Cruz and Jeb fighting for a "victory" in second place like Kasich did and Rubio in Iowa.

http://www.thestate.com/news/politi...s-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article60547281.html
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I'm reading alot of different columns, while not really worth posting links to, are saying that the margin for Trump's lead are much smaller than most public polls are saying.

There's even a Bush campaign internal poll that leaked that said Trump had 26% and Cruz 24%. While most accounts are shooting the probable accuracy down, based on the 500 participants and other questionable factors, Cruz has a gigantic groundgame in SC and has a tendency to outperform his projected poll numbers on primary/caucus days.

Trump may win SC, but I can tell you it's not going to be by over twenty points.
 
GearSolidMetal said:
I'm reading alot of different columns, while not really worth posting links to, are saying that the margin for Trump's lead are much smaller than most public polls are saying.

There's even a Bush campaign internal poll that leaked that said Trump had 26% and Cruz 24%. While most accounts are shooting the probable accuracy down, based on the 500 participants and other questionable factors, Cruz has a gigantic groundgame in SC and has a tendency to outperform his projected poll numbers on primary/caucus days.

Trump may win SC, but I can tell you it's not going to be by over twenty points.
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538 seems to always slim the lead. I'm surprised he is still leading tbh. It's hard to be off 20 points in polling without something really big happening right before. I mean you can see a budge of 5 or so points maybe but the 20 almost makes that state seem done at this point if people really didn't change their mind after the debate.
 
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback endorses Marco Rubio for president
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has become the first sitting governor to endorse Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida for president.

The Rubio campaign announced the endorsement Monday. “Just like Governor Brownback, Marco has consistently defended life, small government and free enterprise throughout his career in public service,” Rubio midwest spokesman Jeremy Adler said in a statement.

Kansas Republicans will caucus Mar. 5.
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First endorsement from a Governor Rubio has had. He is pulling a bit away from Bush at this stage as the establishment endorsement front-runner.

 
Nikki Haley rumored to be endorsing Rubio tonight
 
carlos cadona said:
Before I just disagreed with him on economic, now I can dislike him on social issues and as a person as well.
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It really wasn't a ringing endorsement to be fair.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/02/16/tragedy-and-choices-n2119896

Senator Ted Cruz has been criticized in this column before, and will undoubtedly be criticized here again. But we can only make our choices among those actually available, and Senator Cruz is the one who comes to mind when depth and steadfastness come to mind.
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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to endorse Marco Rubio
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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will endorse Sen. Marco Rubio for president, a source familiar with Haley's plans confirmed.

The endorsement is a major coup for Rubio, as Haley is one of the highest-profile Republican governors in the country and is often mentioned on short lists of potential vice presidential picks.

The support comes ahead of Saturday's Republican primary in South Carolina, where Rubio is under pressure to perform well against rivals Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and Jeb Bush after his fifth-place showing in New Hampshire.
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Rubio's in place to start running away with the invisible primary. Congress and Governors are starting to consolidate behind him now.
 
It's hilarious looking at the RCP average where Walker and Bush were way at the top and both tanked.
 
New national poll has Trump up 17 again. The Cruz one was indeed an outlier
 
It's hard to support Rubio after his besmirchment at the hands of Christie two weeks ago.
 
Lead Salad said:
New national poll has Trump up 17 again. The Cruz one was indeed an outlier
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Post a link? This, I gotta see.

The one from yesterday is only from a pool of 400 people. That's it. But as a Cruz supporter I'd like to see more credible polling info before I get my hopes up.

And Carson just confirmed that if SC's results are dissapointing, he's still going to continue with the campaign.

Just fucking drop out, Jesus.
 
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