Some of you are probably wondering what in the heck is going on with the polls in South Carolina. The short answer is that a lot of polls are run by liberal universities so they are corrupted by bias and political correctness. The following article from “Think Process” is an attempt to demonize Republicans. Instead it documents the huge problems with some public opinion polls:
The polling company is Public Policy Polling. Look at the questions they are asking Republicans. This is right out of the Democratic spin manual which assumes that all Republicans are angry white evangelical right wing homophobic racists.
They asked if the person would support banning homosexuals from the country, shutting down U.S. Mosques, creating a national database of Muslims, banning Islam, flying the Confederate flag over the State Capital and by the way, did they wish that the South had won the Civil War.
“The conclusion is that Trump’s support in South Carolina is built on a base of voters among who religious and racial intolerance pervades.”
There is zero chance that I would tolerate an opinion poll from obnoxious liberals asking these kinds of questions. If I did answer, I would probably be so offended that I would deliberately give wrong answers just to rattle their cage. This is insane, but this is also the poll being widely reported in the news today. No wonder the polls are so wrong. The internal polls are far more accurate.
Here is what an internal poll by the Jeb Bush campaign is seeing:
Trump 26, Cruz 24, Bush 12, Rubio 11. If that is accurate it explains a lot. It would certainly explain why Trump is going postal on Cruz. At this point, no one knows. But we can sure see what people are doing and right now Trump looks pretty desperate. Rush Limbaugh believes that Cruz has given up on attracting the Republican base and is now openly trying to appeal to independents and Reagan Democrats. Limbaugh does not believe that Trump has significant support among the Republican base.
We are clearly in uncharted waters. Probably the most reliable information right now is that the polls are completely unreliable. We can also count on the Republican establishment trying desperately to make people believe that Jeb Bush, or Marco Rubio or John Kasich is surging in a desperate attempt to prevent Trump or Cruz pulling away from the field. If Trump wins, Cruz probably lives to fight another day and in future primaries Trump cannot rely on Democrats and Independents. If Cruz wins, Trump is in deep trouble. It is theoretically possible for Rubio to find a narrow opening on the back stretch but right now this looks like a two man race. Donald Trump looks like a man who knows he is going down in flames and is determined to do maximum damage on the way out.
TDM