Despite a debate in which Fox moderators repeatedly attacked him and three days of hostile press coverage which came after it, Donald Trump remains in a commanding lead in the race for the Republican nomination, according to a poll released Sunday evening by NBC News. The results confound weekend press coverage suggesting Trump’s campaign was foundering.
The online poll was conducted by the Analytics Unit of NBC News and the University of Pennsylvania’s Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies over a 24 hour period from Friday evening into Saturday, thus coming entirely after the debate on Thursday evening.
According to poll, Trump has the support of 23% of Republican voters, followed by Ted Cruz with 13%, Ben Carson with 11%, Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina tied at 8% and Jeb Bush and Scott Walker at 7%. The poll showed Trump essentially unchanged from a poll taken one week ago in which he garnered 22% support.
Numerous commentators speculated over the weekend that Trump’s public spat with Fox News host Megyn Kelly might finally spell the end of his surge in the polls. Top Republicans openly cheered his apparent downfall. But NBC’s weekend poll suggests that assumption was misplaced.
Any time a political party that literally laughs and cheers when nasty misogynist things are said about Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama or Nancy Pelsoi or even Rosie O’Donnell - but gets outraged when precious Megyn Kelly is insulted - fuck them. Go Donald.
Online poll? Yeah, OK… I’ll wait until they call up the old people on landlines until I register an emotion about this.
Popcorn?
Check…
Let 'er roll boys.
Daily Kos posted this earlier and the commenters said that the polling outfit had a very good record in the last midterms.
I gathered that the method is to fill in demographic slots rather than simply tallying the opinions registered.
Oh, I so wish we were 5 months from the election, rather than 15. I’m afraid that it may be too early to celebrate the unmitigated hara-kiri of the G.O.P.