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Title: Cruz rockets to third in new poll
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URL Source: http://www.wsbt.com/news/politics/c ... -to-third-in-new-poll/32132868
Published: Apr 1, 2015
Author: Alexandra Jaffe CNN
Post Date: 2015-04-01 21:31:50 by A K A Stone
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Views: 4211
Comments: 22
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has jumped to third place in the prospective Republican presidential field since making his bid official last week, according to a new poll.
The survey, released Wednesday by Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, found Cruz surging from 5% support last month to 16% support from Republican primary voters this month.
He now trails only Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who leads the pack with 20% support, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who takes 17%. Cruz was in sixth place in last month's poll.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul both take 10% support, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tie with 6% each, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie takes 4% and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has 3% support.
That's a steep drop for Carson, who was polling at 18% support last month, and a drop for Huckabee from 10% last month.
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#12. To: A K A Stone (#0)
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I like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and Mike Lee. But Cruz is probably going nowhere because he has the unfortunate demeanor of a sleazy used car salesman. It's not good, John Kasich needs to run. He has the credentials to beet Bush.
I've mentioned this before. Cruz is not a natural as a retail pol. He comes off as a slick lawyer type. Or a sleazy used car salesman. The difference between the two is Princeton undergrad and top Harvard law school standing with a ticket to clerk for Chief Justice Rehnquist. You recall his youthful passions for extolling the Constitution. For a guy like Cruz, constitutional law is his first love and his mistress. Some people would say that Cruz is far better suited to sitting on the Supreme Court than playing retail pol in the Senate. Even Cruz's arguments for his positions sound a lot like he's arguing a legal brief. Most pols who make it in retail politics are really lousy lawyers. Like the Xlintons, Biden, the Obamas, etc. But it's quite rare for a top legal eagle like Cruz to make it in retail politics even though he might hang on for years in the Senate, given the power of incumbency.
Can't help to make the following comparison:
#22. To: redleghunter, cranko (#21)
Your pic didn't come through but I see it's a Better Call Saul graphic. When it comes to watching and hearing Cruz, I often will find myself thinking suddenly of someone else. LBJ didn't go to Princeton/Harvard (old money strongholds way back when) like Cruz did but he was bright enough to graduate high school at age 15. LBJ was dangerous because he was so smart. Cunning, like Nixon.
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#20. To: cranko (#12)
But Cruz is probably going nowhere because he has the unfortunate demeanor of a sleazy used car salesman. It's not good,
#21. To: TooConservative (#20)
He comes off as a slick lawyer type.
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