Thread: Poll: Ben Carson leads Donald Trump by double digits in Iowa

Poll: Ben Carson leads Donald Trump by double digits in Iowa


By Tal Kopan, CNN
Updated 12:28 PM ET, Mon October 26, 2015

Washington (CNN)A new poll out Monday confirms that Ben Carson is topping Donald Trump in Iowa's Republican caucuses -- this time by 14 points.

According to the Monmouth University poll released Monday, Carson is leading Trump 32% to 18% among likely Republican Iowa voters. In a Monmouth poll conducted in August, the two had been tied at 23%.

The poll confirms a shift in the state identified by two other polls in the past week. In the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll, Trump was up 9 points, and Quinnipiac University showed him up 8 percentage points.

RELATED: Two polls show Carson on top in Iowa

Trump has begun to attack Carson on the trail as the retired neurosurgeon rises in the polls and challenges Trump's front-runner status, though the mogul continues to lead nationally.

Trump maintains that he only "counterpunches," but Carson has not been making Trump a focal point of his campaigning in recent weeks.

The poll had good news for other GOP candidates, as well. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has picked up 6 percentage points since August, to 10%. That's good enough to tie for third place with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Jeb Bush has picked up three points to be in fifth place, at 8%. His favorability rates have also improved 8 points since August.

On the other hand, Carly Fiorina's post-debate bounce has seemingly ebbed, as she dropped from 10% in August to 5% in Monday's poll.

Monmouth surveyed 400 likely Republican Iowa caucus-goers from October 22-25 for the poll. which has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/politi...oll/index.html

hahahahaaha what a joke.

W

that a lie trump is doing good
mr Gheen your doing very good work
thank you

I know the Marxist “news”media does a lot of polling that is intended to manipulate public opinion. I certainly would put no credence in the Des Moines Register’s poll, but still this information makes me nervous, often the liberal poles do prove to be correct.

All I can say is theTrump people should always work hard and never loose the fear of being defeated.

If Mr. Carson sabotages the Trump campaign in Iowa, I will never forgive or forget him and the gullible feel good Republicans who support him. Carson is for amnesty; when he speaks of illegal immigration he sounds like a recorded message from the open borders/amnesty lobby. If he were to become president the illegal alien invasion crisis will never be resolved. This nation is dying and Carson will not save it with his amnesty crap.

Throughout my lifetime I have had my hopes raised and crashed, over and over again. Trump is our last chance to turn things around. If Carson denies patriots a Trump victory I will never forgive or forget. I will never support him. Not ever, even if the Democrats win. The way I see it, Democrat or Carson the illegal alien invasion will continue and the nation will die. What do I have to looseby writing in a protest vote for Jeff Sessions?

I don't understand this whole situation at all. Maybe Iowa is always a little different than the rest of the country? It looks like in past elections it's gone in a different direction than most in the primary. It's still very disappointing to see this when we need the early states to go Trump so he can win them all and have a true mandate to fix our country.

CBS/NYT Poll: Ben Carson edges out Donald Trump

CBS News October 27, 2015, 7:00 AM

Twenty-six percent of Republican primary voters back Carson, giving him a four-point edge over Trump (22 percent). Support for Carson has quadrupled since August. . .

I suspect that the rise of Carson in the polls is due to an unholy alliance of the RINOs with the hyper religious “conservatives.” I think the RINOs have come to believe that their favorites like Bush, Rubio etc. can not win. RINOs simply do not have enough votes to win the nomination by themselves so to derail Trump they vote with the faux conservative, Ben Carson, who will give them their greatest priority issue—amnesty. The hyper religious love Carson because he waves a bible at them more than Trump ever has.

The nomination of BenCarson will be a national disaster. The religious got their no abortion stuff from Trump but apparently many of them will not reciprocate by supporting our amnesty fighter Trump; they want Carson and will make common cause with the RINOs to get him and screw your guy Trump. That is a sure formula for starting a civil war among conservatives. Patriots like me will walk and the Democrats will win. And America will die.

I will never, ever vote for Ben Carson with his amnesty crap, and millions of others will do the same.

Pro-life voters are being deceived by Carson-he supports amnesty- which if granted, will likely lead to a one party (Democrat) takeover of this country and the issues they care about won't matter .