http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/10/22/ben_carson_and_trump_continue_to_rollBen Carson and Trump Continue to Roll
October 22, 2015
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RUSH: Now, in the other political news, 'cause there is other political news going on out there, and in the Republican presidential campaign, there are a wild bunch of stories. From TheHill.com: "Donald Trump is closing in on 100 days atop the Republican primary polls." The race has tightened somewhat as Ben Carson now leads Trump in Iowa. And the political establishment is shocked. Now, Ben Carson, they shouldn't be. Carson has been working Iowa like crazy. He spent a lot of time there. He's given Iowa a lot of attention. The details are these.
Ben Carson has surged past Donald Trump in Iowa. This is a Quinnipiac University poll. Likely Republican caucus participants. It's just out today. Carson leads the Republican field with 28%. Trump has fallen to 20%. Carson's lead is beyond the margin of error. A September survey by Quinnipiac of the same sample of caucus attenders, Republican caucus-goers, had Trump at 27% and Carson at 21%. Also scoring a boost was Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio in third place now in the Quinnipiac poll in Iowa, 13%. He was at 5% in September last month. Following Rubio in the most recent survey was Ted Cruz at 10%, Rand Paul at 6%, Carly Fiorina and Jeb Bush at 5%. And all the rest are under 3%.
"The strong showing from Carson, who has gotten accolades for his debate performance and campaign style." What is it that Carson's talking about predominantly lately? During the period of this survey, can you tell me off the top of your head, what was it Carson was talking about? Not a wild guess. I mean, he was talking about the dangers of Islam. He was talking about the dangers of immigration, of Sharia. This is taken during the period of time where Ben Carson said he doesn't think that a Muslim who believes in Sharia law and therefore the Constitution is subordinated should be elected president.
That's when the media was having a cow. That's when all the political professionals, "Oh, that's the end of his campaign. You just can't talk like that. You can't talk about minorities that way. You just can't do it." And he doubled down on it like Trump has doubled down on his things, and now in Iowa he's at 28%. Here's how The Politico writes about it, in fact.
"The strong showing from Carson, who has gotten accolades for his debate performance and campaign style despite tossing out some inflammatory comments about Muslims and mass shootings, comes in part from his support from women, who back Carson 33 percent to Trump's 13 percent." Trump's percentage of women in this poll is 13%. So Carson is eight points ahead of Trump overall, 20 points ahead of Trump in women. And you notice here that The Politico claims this support for Carson comes despite the things that he's been in the news for, which is how they constantly report on Republicans. "Yeah, yeah, look, it's amazing, he's going great guns despite what he said about Muslims and Sharia and Constitution and so forth."
"A candidate who shares their values is most important to 28 percent of caucus-goers; 23 percent think being honest and trustworthy is key. But Carson doesn’t have to worry about which quality is more important because 84 percent of those polled said he shares their values and 89 percent felt he is honest and trustworthy."
So the two most important reasons a caucus goer would vote for a person in the Hawkeye Cauci, Ben Carson scores 84 and 89%. So you would have to assume that in Iowa they like what Carson has been saying about Muslims vis-a-vis being elected and subordinating the Constitution to Sharia law and guns. Donald Trump now says he would be open to closing US mosques to fight ISIS.
Anyway, I have to take a break here, folks. That could steer us into this -- I really want to get into something today about this daily soap opera in Washington and how really it is a script that is written and how we only see 10% of what makes the news each day. It relates to the presidential campaign and the Paul Ryan Speaker of the House story as well.
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