New CBS Poll (10/11/2015): Rand in 7th, Will Likely Make Debate

[goldwater's ghost]

Lindsey still fails to qualify for the kiddie debate. How sweet would that be if he's left out of that one? Is that guy even campaigning or does he just want his name on the ballot?

my favorite story of the race so far. this d-bag only entered the race so that he could debate rand on foreign policy and he has a good chance of never making it to the stage lol

 

[goldwater's ghost]

i think rand bottomed a few weeks ago when he was polling at 2%. i think he's bounced a little and all the polls should have between 4-6% heading into the debate

 

[limequat]

I don't like Cruz almost breaking double digits.

Well get ready for more disappointment. Cruz is the establishments fall back position. Walker's out. Bush is a dud. Rubio isn't catching on. The last best option is to pump Cruz through the primaries and hand the general to the Dems. Cruz is currently enemy #1.

 

[limequat]

i think rand bottomed a few weeks ago when he was polling at 2%. i think he's bounced a little and all the polls should have between 4-6% heading into the debate

Agreed.

 

[CaptUSA]

Excellent news for Rand! His average is now a solid 3%.

 

[Jeremy]

Well get ready for more disappointment. Cruz is the establishments fall back position. Walker's out. Bush is a dud. Rubio isn't catching on. The last best option is to pump Cruz through the primaries and hand the general to the Dems. Cruz is currently enemy #1.

There's nothing Cruz wants more right now than for Rand to drop out. He must be pretty upset about losing the RLC straw poll yesterday, despite spending money to infiltrate it.

 

[specsaregood]

There's nothing Cruz wants more right now than for Rand to drop out. He must be pretty upset about losing the RLC straw poll yesterday, despite spending money to infiltrate it.

I think its pretty obvious that its Cruz's campaign that has been circulating B.S. rumors about Paul's campaign for months now. Snake in the grass he is.

 

[alucard13mm]

Didnt rands tax plan of 14.5%, give an exemption to those that make under a certain amount? I forgot what it was, 30k? 50k? If this is true of there being an exemption or a break for the poor, it would look good for him (althought, rationally, everyone should pay equal. Emoionally [which is huge in an election], should think of the poor)

 

[limequat]

I think its pretty obvious that its Cruz's campaign that has been circulating B.S. rumors about Paul's campaign for months now. Snake in the grass he is.

Yep, pretty sure his campaign is the source of all the "anonymous GOP insiders" feeding BS to politico.

 

[Brett85]

I definitely breathed a big sigh of relief after looking at this poll.

 

[BenIsForRon]

I feel like Rand will have to confront Cruz at some point, but I'm not stoked about it because Cruz has been an important ally at times in the Senate.

 

[carlton]

I feel like Rand will have to confront Cruz at some point, but I'm not stoked about it because Cruz has been an important ally at times in the Senate.

If Cruz was an ice-cream flavor, he'd be praline and dick.

 

[phill4paul]

If Cruz was an ice-cream flavor, he'd be praline and dick.

 

[Kotin]

If Cruz was an ice-cream flavor, he'd be praline and dick.

haha win..

 

[limequat]

I feel like Rand will have to confront Cruz at some point, but I'm not stoked about it because Cruz has been an important ally at times in the Senate.

There have some fairly barbed exchanges already. I don't think Rand is counting on Cruz for anything but trouble.

 

[carlton]

There have some fairly barbed exchanges already. I don't think Rand is counting on Cruz for anything but trouble.

 

[Rudeman]

Bush is just waiting for the other establishment/moderate candidates to drop out. Take out Christie, Kasich, Fiorina and Rubio + Bush's total and that's 25%. So we need to be aware of that, just because he's struggling doesn't mean he can't "surge" back up.

 

[PCKY]

Trump 27
Carson 21
Cruz 9
Rubio 8
Fiorina 6
Bush 6
Paul 4
Christie 3
Kasich 2
Huckabee 2
Santorum 1
Jindal 0
Graham 0
Pataki 0

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-trump-still-leads-carson-in-second/


Excellent news for Rand! His average is now a solid 3%.

Yay! How many more polls before the cut off?

 

[jkob]

Not sure how Rand would go about attacking Cruz unless over foreign policy which I'd be all for but Rand seems to go out of h, I'd probably avoid it directly since Cruz is not an ill-prepared guy and is very popular with conservatives in the GOP that we want to win over that are already miffed at Rand. Like Rand won't burn any bridges with McConnell but he doesn't have any problem criticizing the other conservatives in this race? You do realize how this appears? Rand needs to pound Jeb, Rubio, the media, the establishment, he needs to stand out and not be afraid of what the polls say. The polls say his candidacy is dead so there is nothing to lose by advocating the unpopular nonmainstream positions, controversy attracts attention and the voters need educating. Stop trying to be "electable", that is a box that Rand will never escape from. Just showing up and attacking someone above you in the polls doesn't look good very often, we need substance.

Honestly I think an economics debate is going to be tough, people aren't going to disagree with each other rather just try to one up one another. I'm sure they'll be plenty of other questions I guess, Rand needs to take up the anti-war and anti-drug war(which can be framed as state's rights issue mantle full time as part of his campaign. The media making fun of our kooky ideas is better than not distinguishing ourselves, for all Rand's pandering to hawks most who that is important to still think Rand is some limp wristed isolationist like his father. Project confidence, tell them why you are right and they are wrong. Speaking like a vanilla politician trying to juggle support is a ticket to irrelevance. Extremism is no vice in the defense of liberty!

 

[squirl22]

If Cruz was an ice-cream flavor, he'd be praline and dick.

HA HA...GOOD LAUGH!