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book_worm

(15,951 posts)
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 10:14 PM Mar 2016

Latest Florida Poll has bad news for Marco Rubio--released tonight

lorida Atlantic University public opinion poll released Saturday showed Donald Trump with 44 percent of the vote and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz with 21 percent each. With the primary just days away, 5 percent of Florida Republicans still hadn't made up their minds.

If the numbers hold through Tuesday's primary, the billionaire businessman and part-time Palm Beach resident would win all of Florida's 99 nominating delegates in the winner-take-all primary.

If Rubio, Florida's junior U.S. senator, fares as poorly in actual votes in his home state as the poll indicates, it would be a devastating blow to his presidential hopes. If Cruz, a senator from Texas, finishes even with Rubio, that could boost his argument that he's the best alternative to Trump.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-florida-primary-fau-results-20160312-story.html

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Latest Florida Poll has bad news for Marco Rubio--released tonight (Original Post) book_worm Mar 2016 OP
This is TERRIBLE news! Suich Mar 2016 #1
This poll was done pre-riot. DCBob Mar 2016 #2
I doubt it will hurt Trump with the kinds of people who support him. book_worm Mar 2016 #3
Exactly. Dubya "won" because he was seen as strong. Nevernose Mar 2016 #4

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
4. Exactly. Dubya "won" because he was seen as strong.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 10:44 PM
Mar 2016

His voters fell all over themselves to say that he was essentially a high-functioning moron, but he was "strong." That's all anyone cared about. It was insane.

That's what Trump keeps ranting on about ("making America great again!&quot and these dumb-asses haven't made a political decision based on anything other than horrifically-dysfunctional emotions since at least the Reagan administration.

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