Trump Lead Grows Nationally; 41% of His Voters Want to Bomb Country From Aladdin; Clinton Maintains Big Lead

[Machiavelli]

Public Policy Polling (PPP)
December 18, 2015

PPP's newest national Republican primary poll finds Donald Trump holding his largest lead yet in the wake of Tuesday night's debate. He's at 34% to 18% for Ted Cruz, 13% for Marco Rubio, 7% for Jeb Bush, 6% for Ben Carson, 5% for Chris Christie, 4% each for Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee, 2% each for John Kasich and Rand Paul, 1% each for Lindsey Graham and Rick Santorum, and less than 1% each for Jim Gilmore and George Pataki ...

41% of [Trump's] voters think Japanese internment was a good thing, to 37% who don't. And 41% of his supporters would favor bombing Agrabah to only 9% who are opposed to doing that. Agrabah is the country from Aladdin. Overall 30% of Republican primary voters say they support bombing it to 13% who are opposed. We asked the same question of Democrats, and 36% of them opposed bombing Agrabah to 19% in support ...

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[sinkspur]

And 41% of his supporters would favor bombing Agrabah to only 9% who are opposed to doing that. Agrabah is the country from Aladdin.

BWAAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!!!

Someone was in a huff the other day when I suggested Trump's voters weren't exactly brain surgeons.

Bombing a country from a kid's fairy tale.......well............what do you think?

[Machiavelli]

To be fair, everyone came out looking bad on this poll. 

[jmyrlefuller]

To be fair, everyone came out looking bad on this poll. 

Exactly. 30% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats said the same thing about the Agrabah (sp?) question.

[Scottftlc]

Good Lord, really? This is the stupid stuff they come up with?  So cute.  And in the 60's no one knew all the alphabet twisting Soviet cities either. Has anyone under 40 even heard of Aladdin?