Trump widens GOP lead in new CNN Poll

Recently, Donald Trump said publicly that he should charge CNN $5-M to appear in the network’s next GOP candidates’ debate in Las Vegas on 15 December because his participation would guarantee high viewer ratings. There’s evidence, for example, that some New Hampshire voters wait to see how the Iowa caucuses turn out before they decide. Given Trump’s lack of relevant experience and utterly un-American policy prescriptions, this line of thinking makes a lot of sense. If people who have never voted Republican before or simply haven’t voted before decide to vote for the first time, they may not show up in polls until election day. Nevertheless, individuals who are predisposed to racist worldviews are more likely to apply that mindset to a multitude of minority groups than not. It is hard to gauge their reliability.

According to the poll Clinton is leading Donald Trump with 49 percent of the general electorate vote compared to 46 percent for Trump.

And lastly, there is the matter of passion.

A new CNN/ORC national poll released Friday found 36 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents picking Trump as their 2016 presidential candidate.

For a while I explained this sentiment thusly: Trump may not be personally anti-Semitic, but anti-Semites sure seem to love Trump. Ted Cruz, 22 point over retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and 24 point lead over Florida Sen. The poll included 495 registered voters who identified themselves as Republicans – that portion of the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.6 percent – and 346 Democrats – with a margin of error of plus or minus 6.7 percent.

I’m going to take a leap and say that “minds made up” correlate with passion. Many of Trump’s supporters have not voted in previous presidential contests, and a hoarse Trump said a strong showing was essential for his campaign – and turning out is everything. Having spent a little more than $200,000 on television ads, Trump nonetheless leads the field.

Discounting years in which there was an incumbent Republican president as a candidate (since they run unopposed), the victor of the Iowa Republican Caucuses has gone on to win the party’s nomination just twice in six caucuses. He says this is Trump’s biggest lead and he’s dominating on every issue. Reading the article carefully, I came away with the opposite conclusion.

The Republican presidential frontrunner – 20 points ahead of primary rivals in the latest CNN/ORC Poll – was responding to a question about how he would handle terrorist attacks in the country, two days after the San Bernardino, California massacre, which claimed 14 lives.