Surprise: Trump Falls Behind Cruz in National NBC/WSJ Poll

I wasn't surprised really, that last debate was pretty shameful. Personally, I thought Kasich was the most appealing, he avoided all the schoolyard bickering and I am actually warming to his platform. Poor pathetic JEB at the bottom with 4%. I can't help but chuckle at that, he looks more and more pathetic and awestruck that he;s losing so badly. I think if Trump keeps up the combative rhetoric it will be the beginning of the end for him.

Yeah Jeb is gonna have permanent WTF?! face

I'm hearing that Trump is ahead in two other polls.

I don't think South Carolina is a barometer for the nation.

Trump's comments on McCain - saying he is not a hero, turned me against him. His past support for Planned Parenthood and Partial Birth Abortion were show stoppers for me --- even if he now has different opinions. His bombastic nature is not suitable for the White House. The country is so divided after 7 years of Obama and his executive order. I can't imaging the division after 4 or 8 of Trump. When he repeated 9/11 conspiracy theories in a debate, that sealed the deal for me.

Bush expressed major butt hurt today when Nikki Haley said she was endorsing Mr. Roboto. I almost felt sorry for him.

Trump is showing a big lead in the other polls. If you don’t like Trump, you better hope Teddy beats him in South Carolina otherwise the momentum gain is going to make it difficult for anybody else to. The only bad thing for Ted is that Republican Establishment hates him more than they do Trump. Polling also shows he would be the worst Republican candidate in the General Election. At this point, I think Trump is the Republicans best chance to win the general. He has some crossover appeal to working class Democrats and Hillary’s campaign based upon “No, We Can’t” isn’t very appealing to them. It doesn’t appeal to me very much either to be honest. At this point, I think even if Trump would get up on stage at the next debate and defecate, his poll numbers would still go up.

I am also convinced Trump will run 3rd Party if he is not the Republican nominee......

Yes, me too. Especially, if the establishment tries to take it away from him at the convention.

3.5% margin of error.

It's really hard to get on a number of ballots for a third party candidate. Several also have so-called sore loser rules that prohibit someone who ran in a party primary to run as an independent. I worked on the Anderson campaign in 1980 and since he HD been in the Republican primaries, he had to run as a Liberal rather than as an Independent.