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edited May 2011 in The Social Lounge
Trump’s 2012 polling plummets
By Rachel Rose Hartman
ShareretweetEmailPrintBy Rachel Rose Hartman rachel Rose Hartman – Tue May 10, 4:47 pm ET
It appears that "Apprentice" host Donald Trump is no longer all that effectively branded among the top tier of potential 2012 candidates for the GOP presidential nomination.

The real estate mogul tied for fifth place in a Public Policy Polling survey of the 2012 Republican field released Tuesday (pdf). That's down from first place in PPP's April survey.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was the leading preferred candidate among Republican voters, with 19 percent support in this week's survey. He was followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 18 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with 13 percent, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with 12 percent. Trump tied with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas at 8 percent.

Those numbers are a long way off from the April 15 survey of the GOP race, which had Trump leading with a comfortable 26 percent of polled support. His closest competitor at the time was Huckabee, who received 17 percent, Romney had 15 percent, Gingrich received 11 percent, Palin had 8 percent and Paul polled 5 percent. (Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann placed last in both surveys.)

So what's changed for Trump?

For one, Trump's quest to pressure President Obama to his long-form birth certificate came to an end last month when the White House released the document. Quickly afterward, "birther" speculation in the GOP field, and in the media generally, died down.

PPP's analysts say the vanishing vogue for birtherism is a key reason behind Trump's waning GOP support. "Donald Trump had a meteoric rise to the top of the GOP Presidential field and has fallen back down just as quickly," PPP president Dean Debnam said in his analysis. "Republicans voters burned out on him pretty fast, especially after the birther issue lost some of its potency with the release of President Obama's birth certificate."

Following the birth certificate release, the president called Trump inexperienced and made him the laughing stock of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and scrutiny began piling up about Trump's past as well as his current business dealings.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110510/el_yblog_theticket/trumps-2012-polling-plummets
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  • edeeesq
    edeeesq Members Posts: 511
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    SMH @ Sarah Palin's name anywhere on that list.
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  • janklow
    janklow Members, Moderators Posts: 8,613 Regulator
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    well, hopefully he got the bump in the ratings for Celebrity Apprentice that he wanted
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  • Focal Point
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    lol this wasn't a surprise
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  • earth two superman
    earth two superman Members Posts: 17,149 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    like he was ever really going to run lol
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  • politicalthug202
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    janklow wrote: »
    well, hopefully he got the bump in the ratings for Celebrity Apprentice that he wanted

    nope his ratings were down bcuz obamas news announcement about bin laden interrupted the time slot.
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  • edeeesq
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    The fact that he was a front runner AT ALL shows how desperate the GOP is.....Now, its time for "The Newt"....
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  • kingblaze84
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    No surprise here! Trump has been an idiot for a long time now. If his daddy wasn't rich, he'd be broke and homeless on a subway train right now.
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  • Swiffness!
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    he called out Obama and the ? did a Mortal Kombat fatality on him

    why WOULDN'T his numbers plummet?
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  • Darius
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    thats probably good for the party and the country.
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  • janklow
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    politicalthug202 wrote: »
    nope his ratings were down bcuz obamas news announcement about bin laden interrupted the time slot.
    i really do wish that Obama was sitting in the White House watching Trump, thinking "what can i do to shut this ? guy up" ... and then he says "? it" and goes and kills Osama with a sword
    matt- wrote: »
    thats probably good for the party and the country.
    also this
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  • BelovedAfeni
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    i mean he can still be a problem for the democrats.
    he can start up alot of ? than disappear al a ross perot.
    lets wait and see.
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  • killap
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    Damn I really think he would of ran this time if it wasn't for Obama dropping that ether...Romney might be the next contestant on that correspondents screen
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  • edeeesq
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    Welp, that was a disappointment....
    NEW YORK – Donald Trump to self: You're fired.

    Out of the presidential race before he was officially in it, the celebrity real estate mogul announced Monday he would not seek the 2012 Republican nomination. He could have won the White House, he said, but instead will continue to steer his business empire and remain host of his reality show "Celebrity Apprentice."

    The announcement, ending a colorful and attention-grabbing chapter in the unfolding GOP nominating race, surprised some strategists who said Trump had been assembling a campaign team and had been expected to announce his candidacy soon. This spring, Trump had gained considerable attention by stirring renewed controversy over President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth, leading the White House to persuade the state to release a copy of Obama's long-form birth certificate after two years of dismissing the issue.

    Trump revealed his decision Monday at a meeting of advertising executives who had come to learn about NBC's fall television lineup. The network had been pressing him for a decision, fearing the loss of millions of dollars in ad revenue if "Celebrity Apprentice" didn't return next year.

    "I will not be running for president as much as I'd like to," Trump said to cheers from the audience.


    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_trump2012
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  • janklow
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    edeeesq wrote: »
    Welp, that was a disappointment....
    well, who really expected anything different?
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  • edeeesq
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    Those 26% of Republican voters

    FYI, They should be tracked down and have their ? removed to prevent reproduction.
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  • dalyricalbandit
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    that whole thing was just some promo for his show
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