National Politics - 2016

"Republican" SC House Poll Ruffles Presidential Feathers

CRUZ, RUBIO BACKERS CRY FOUL …  South Carolina supporters of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida are livid after a poll commissioned by the S.C. House “Republican” Caucus showed their candidates faring worse than expected among the “First in the South” GOP electorate….

CRUZ, RUBIO BACKERS CRY FOUL … 

South Carolina supporters of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida are livid after a poll commissioned by the S.C. House “Republican” Caucus showed their candidates faring worse than expected among the “First in the South” GOP electorate.

The poll also showed former Florida governor Jeb Bush faring better than expected – in third place.  No other survey has Bush polling anywhere other than fourth place.

Bush has been endorsed by S.C. House “majority” leader Bruce Bannister – titular head of the organization which released the poll.

That has backers of Cruz and Rubio furious – and questioning the validity of the results.

Donald Trump is the runaway leader in the survey, receiving the support of 34.5 percent of likely primary voters.  That’s consistent with other polling released in recent days.

In second place?  Cruz – albeit at 15.5 percent, which is roughly five points lower than he’s been polling in other surveys.

Bush gets thirteen percent, followed by Rubio (12.5 percent), Ohio governor John Kasich (8.5 percent) and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson (5 percent).

Eleven percent of those polled indicated they were undecided.

Backers of Rubio weren’t buying the results – with one going so far as to call the poll “dirty” and “underhanded.”

“Every internal and public poll I’ve seen shows Rubio ahead of Bush by 5-10 points,” the operative said.  “The the GOP House Caucus poll today shows him losing to Bush by half a point?”

The S.C. House “Republican” Caucus surveyed 1,200 “likely Republican presidential primary voters” – a large sample – between February 11 and 12.  No margin of error was provided for the results.

The Caucus announced it would be providing “updated results each day next week,” so we expect plenty of additional feather-ruffling in the days to come.

S.C. HOUSE GOP SURVEY (.pdf)

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21 comments

Adam February 12, 2016 at 8:52 pm

Trump 2016!! B

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bill coleman February 12, 2016 at 8:57 pm

If no one gets a landslide from the primaries, the convention could be very interesting and will be an epic event regardless.

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stumpknocker February 12, 2016 at 9:48 pm

it will be YUGE!

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TroubleBaby February 12, 2016 at 9:16 pm

“titular head”

http://s4.postimg.org/47rwspr5p/tit_head_little_nicky_84172190565.jpg

Given his name is “Bruce Bannister”, I was hoping to find one in green- but google image search yields small green birds.

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CorruptionInColumbia February 12, 2016 at 11:04 pm

LMAO!!!! Was that a booby head or what???,

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shifty henry February 13, 2016 at 8:27 am

yep – w/erect nipples …

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TroubleBaby February 14, 2016 at 12:14 pm

I’d walk around with erect nipples all day long if I had boobs on my head. I wouldn’t be able to keep my hands off myself.

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Tazmaniac February 13, 2016 at 9:17 am

Good one! Is that from a movie? I’m pretty sure you just popped my tits-on-a-head cherry. Now I have no where to go but Asian triplets with B cups on their noggin.

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TroubleBaby February 14, 2016 at 12:09 pm

Kevin Nealon: “Little Nicky”, wasn’t a very good movie though.

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Maldon21 February 12, 2016 at 9:57 pm

Trump is well on his way to winning the exact same way that Sen. Graham continues to get re-elected. Conservatives continue to divide themselves among numerous candidates who continue to focus more on destroying each other than dealing with policies and solutions. Unless a few more candidates face the reality that someone else has a better chance of competing with Trump, puts their ego in check, and bows out in support of that candidate, it will be too late for any of them to overcome his lead.

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RogueElephant February 13, 2016 at 11:42 am

The conservatives I know are between Trump and Cruz. The rest are the establishment RINOs we are all too familiar with. Dr. Carson being the only outsider but too nice to win. Bush ,Rubio and Kasich are all mushy middle moderates with Kasich being the brains of the bunch. For the first time in years we as conservatives can sit back and watch the “in crowd” tear each other to pieces instead of doing it to ourselves. If the establishment doesn’t find a way to steal the nomination from Trump we just might have a POTUS.

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Mark February 14, 2016 at 10:48 am

Cruz is a lying POS. He will say anything to get elected.

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Flip February 15, 2016 at 9:10 am

And Rubio will memorize anything to get elected. They upgraded his RAM so he can remember more than “Obama knows exactly what he’s doing” LMAO!!!

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The Dude February 13, 2016 at 10:43 am

I’m rather enjoying seeing the GOP implode, I hope it continues thru the other 46 primary elections.

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Maldon21 February 13, 2016 at 11:23 am

OH… It’s not imploding! Just changing. We’ll have a nominee, and whoever it is will be the next President. The only question is what direction will that new President will take us in.

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erneba February 13, 2016 at 11:26 am

You get what you pay for. If you want etc., etc., you get etc., etc.
No mention of the polling company, no mention of any of the internals, no margin of error.
You get what you pay for.

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Roger February 13, 2016 at 3:46 pm

Cruz and Rubio. ..two losers!

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Flip February 15, 2016 at 9:11 am

Those aren’t the only two either! You at least have to include Jeb! LMAO!!!

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Writenow February 15, 2016 at 2:28 pm

Trump is a secret liberal. You guys are dummies.

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