4 Responses to “Average of polls today: Trump-29.3%, Carson-24.1%, Rubio-8.8%”

1. Steve Wittlake
   November 4th, 2015 @ 10:15 am

   — “The Republican field has a new target: Marco Rubio,” by Jenna Johnson and Sean Sullivan: “The freshman Florida senator has seen small but steady gains in the polls, attention from major donors and a growing collection of endorsements, especially after a well-received performance in last week’s GOP debate. That has quickly made him a prime target for criticism from his rivals, especially Trump and Bush.
   •“During a news conference Tuesday in Manhattan, Trump called Rubio ‘overrated,’ accused him of being ‘a disaster with his credit cards’ and attacked him as ‘very weak’ on immigration.
   •“At the same time, Bush — whose campaign has disparagingly labeled Rubio as a ‘GOP Obama’ — doubled down on criticizing Rubio for missing more than a third of his Senate votes this year. ‘People that are serving need to show up and work,’ Bush said on CNN. ‘Period. Over and out.’”
   •Jeb got just 7 percent of Florida GOP primary voters in a new poll, 30 points behind Trump and less than half of Rubio’s support.

   “For months, Rubio has avoided direct confrontations with his rivals. His top aides have long worried about peaking too early, preferring to crest just before the first nominating contest on Feb. 1 in Iowa. The latest attacks bring a new level of attention and scrutiny to the 44-year–old senator’s below-the-radar campaign that could throw off his timeline.”

   — The Tampa Bay Times looks back on Rubio’s lavish spending with a GOP credit card, noting that some transactions remain secret. Marco’s murky financial history while holding political office emerged when he was a Senate candidate in 2010, but questions still remain about his spending over a two-year period when he was a member of the Florida House. Rubio’s campaign has yet to release those records, despite multiple requests from the Tampa Bay Times. Some of the transactions Rubio made with a GOP credit card, as noted by reporter Alex Leary:
   •Movie tickets
   •Repairs on a van
   •Double billing plane tickets to both the GOP and the taxpayers

   Big picture: This will become a problem for Rubio. The question is A) when? and B) how big? While it may seem like old news to those of us who covered his 2010 race or know Florida, it’s certainly new information to 99.9 percent of Iowans. And it is easy to imagine pretty brutal TV ads using some of the spending as fodder, especially if connected to the broader frame that Rubio is bad at managing money.

2. Steve Wittlake
   November 4th, 2015 @ 12:48 pm

   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/11/04/the-daily-202-from-coast-to-coast-conservatives-score-huge-victories-in-off-year-elections/

   this is the URL for above post but it is near the end. It is the same as a another post

3. Davey Crockett...
   November 4th, 2015 @ 1:14 pm

   I think that (The Rube) knows he’s ineligible like the other (3) candidates playing with us, so he doesn’t get too wound up about talking in front of very large groups!

   Jindal, Cruz, and Santorum do not have the following that Trump has…that I’ve seen on tv.

   They know they’re ineligible, so why are they pretending to be eligible????

   For what America needs right now, in this time in history, Trump can do the job, since a lot of this problem we have deals with business!

4. Steve Wittlake
   November 4th, 2015 @ 4:05 pm

   I think all the people running for President that do not qualify under the Presidency clause in the Constitution and the 14th Amendment should be put in jail an there citizenship revoked.
   Jindal and Rubio are anchor babies and do not qualify under 14th Amendment and Cruz was born a Canadian Citizen who revoked his Canadian citizenship himself. He did hold status of an Automatic Naturalized Citizen due to his Canadian Birth and his mother being born in the United Status. Cruz is nothing but an illegal alien or Stateless person.

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