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Poll dates Aug. 23-26, 2015. Trump 23, Carson 18, Cruz 8, Walker 8, Bush 6, Rubio 6
8/29/15, "Iowa Poll: Trump blazes to lead; Carson quietly rises," Des Moines Register, Jennifer Jacobs
"A
new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll finds that Trump,
the flamboyant real estate entrepreneur, has 23 percent support here.
But Ben Carson, a soft-spoken retired neurosurgeon, has been a
submarine, quietly cruising into second with 18 percent, just 5
percentage points from the front-runner....
All
the other candidates are grinding away in the single digits, in this
order: Ted Cruz and Scott Walker (both 8 percent), Jeb Bush and Marco
Rubio (both 6 percent), Carly Fiorina (5 percent), and Mike Huckabee and
Rand Paul (both 4 percent).
"Wow,"
said Kedron Bardwell, a political science professor at Simpson College.
"This poll will have Republican consultants shaking heads in
bewilderment. Not since 1992 has anti-establishment sentiment been this
strong."
Bringing up the rear are Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal and
John Kasich (all with 2 percent); Rick Perry and Rick Santorum (both 1
percent); and Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham and George Pataki (all with
less than 1 percent)....
Candidates
who are political outsiders don't seem to be just a summer fling, as
some analysts had predicted, but a budding long-term relationship five
months out from the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses....
They're not
just mad at Democrats: Three-fourths are frustrated with Republicans in
Congress, with 54 percent unsatisfied and 21 percent mad as hell.
Electing
a nonpolitician is "becoming more important as I realize that the
Republicans in Washington are no different than the Democrats," said
retired engineer Craig Wiegel, 63, of Bettendorf, who participated in
the Iowa Poll in May. "They tell you one thing until they're voted in,
and then just go along with the Democrats."...
The Iowa Poll of 400 likely Republican caucusgoers
was conducted Aug. 23-26 by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines. The margin
of error is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points....
Carson beats Trump with Christian conservatives (23 percent to 16 percent) and also with women (20 percent to 16 percent).
Melanie
Hobbs, 45, of Sioux City, a stay-at-home mother who home-schools her
seven kids, names Carson as her first choice because he's "totally
against abortion, and that's one of our biggest issues."
Hobbs also thinks Carson aligns with her thinking on immigration.
"We need to build a fence. We need to stop the influx of illegals," she said....
Trump now viewed favorably by most
In
the last Iowa Poll, in May, Trump had the highest unfavorable rating of
all the Republicans, back when he was tied for ninth place with 4
percent. Trump has almost completely reversed his rating. Then, 27
percent had positive feelings about him and 63 percent negative. Now,
it's 61 percent positive, 35 percent negative.
"People asked if he
could right the ship of his upside-down favorable scores. The answer
is: Yes, hell yes," said J. Ann Selzer, the pollster for the
Register/Bloomberg Iowa Poll.
Poll respondents might not know many
specifics about Trump's positions, but they don't really care. The
majority of likely Republican caucusgoers say they're willing to put
trust in their top candidate to figure out the issues once in office (57
percent).
Among Trump supporters, the feeling is even more widespread (65 percent).
Like
Democrats in 2007 who looked for their savior in Barack Obama,
Republicans in 2015 seem to be looking for their savior in Trump.
Scott
Walker, governor of neighboring Wisconsin, led in two Iowa Polls
earlier this year, in January and May. In July, Trump came to Iowa to
ask Republicans to toss Walker off the first-place perch, and they
complied. "He's got that Type A personality to go out and get what
he wants and not back down," said Trump supporter Garrison Reekers, 43,
a deputy sheriff from Belle Plaine who considers himself a
business-oriented establishment Republican. "There's too much money in
politics, and Trump can afford to take care of himself, and then he
doesn't have to put on somebody else's agenda."
Large swaths of
likely caucusgoers from both parties share Reekers' frustration with the
amount of money in politics. Forty percent of Republicans are mad as
hell about it, and 61 percent of Democrats, their highest number in that
category.
Respondents keeping their options open
The poll is bad news for Walker, who is collapsing in his firewall state, shedding half the support he had in May.
"I
don't think he's dynamic enough at this point," said Christian
conservative respondent Julie Roe, 47, of Eldora, who works in ag
marketing.
Roe likes Huckabee and Cruz, and says she would never
caucus for Bush, because "all he wants to do is make government bigger"
and he has "no concept of how the real world lives" because he "has
never lived anything close to a middle class life."
She also said she detests political dynasties.
Bush
continues to struggle in Iowa. Only 45 percent of likely caucusgoers
have favorable feelings about him; 50 percent view him negatively. Bush
has yet to spend a dime on TV advertising here, but his super PAC
launches ads in September, hoping to use its financial advantage to tell
the story of Bush's conservative record to a larger audience.
Politics
watchers also might be surprised to see Huckabee and Fiorina so far
back. He's a previous winner of the Iowa caucuses, in 2008, and she's
hot on the national scene after a widely praised national debate
performance a month ago....
Ten percent of likely GOP caucusgoers are uncommitted or not sure of their first choice. Every
voter quoted in this article is keeping an open mind, expressing
willingness to swap to a different first-choice candidate....
Poll respondent Barbara
Olson, 63, of Burlington says Trump is now her first choice because of
what he has said about stopping illegal immigration and repealing
Obamacare, and because he's "a very good, savvy businessman.""...
"About the poll"
"The
Iowa Poll, conducted August 23-26 for The Des Moines Register and
Bloomberg Politics by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, is based on
telephone interviews with 400 registered Iowa voters who say they
definitely or probably will attend the 2016 Republican caucuses and 404
registered voters who say they definitely or probably will attend the
2016 Democratic caucuses.
Interviewers
with Quantel Research contacted 2,975 randomly selected active voters
from the Iowa secretary of state's voter registration list by telephone.
Responses were adjusted by age, sex and congressional district to
reflect all active voters in the voter registration list. Interviews
were administered in English.
Questions
based on the subsamples of 404 likely Democratic caucus attendees or
400 likely Republican caucus attendees each have a maximum margin of
error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points. This means that if this
survey were repeated using the same questions and the same methodology,
19 times out of 20, the findings would not vary from the percentages
shown here by more than plus or minus 4.9 percentage points. Results
based on smaller samples of respondents — such as by gender or age —
have a larger margin of error."
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