chew its tail over the prospect of no nominee at the convention -- or Trump!, isn't entertaining to you, of course.

Bush, Rubio, Cruz, Trump -- all are prospectively enormously oligarch-funded and could be the GOP nominee in this weird season. None apparently are going away, and, if the specter of corporate fascism weren't so scary, I'd really be enjoying this.

“Fascism is when corporations become the government.”
― Bill Maher

election season I've lived through. It's a great show as long as the ending comes out OK!

braver and more confident, not just happier and less stressed, and at least the GOP is kind enough to give us a lot of laughs.

I was having fun with you!

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This is, in the frequent words of the media, the "strongest field of Republican presidential candidates in a generation".

....wasn't being fair to this lineup of turds a few months back, because of Trump of course. Big whoop. He referred to these clowns as the "strongest potential candidates in 36 years!" What a complete douchebag!

why Trump is leader of the pack

He's the Wall Street side of the GOP

He's rich

He's from New York

No matter how much they push "family values", the GOP does
little about them except bludgeon Democrats on Choice, which is
to say the Casino culture is fine with them

And the #1 reason Trump's in front

He's the sanest of the bunch by a country mile!

....we've seen in quite a while.

Him and arguably Carson are running neck and neck for that title. Although Cruz might deserve some consideration as well.

On the other hand we have people like Rubio and Jeb, who are horrible options for this country with horrible ideas, but I wouldn't qualify them as being insane. Just depressingly horrible.

But classic NPD and the inability to filter one's thoughts indicate Trump is not right in the head.

Trump is a serious meglomaniac.

There is a part of me that if it was only domestic policy I would prefer him over Rubio or whoever, because he wouldn't just follow the republican agenda and actually has some liberal views, ideas.

But, end of the day, POTUS is commander in chief and is the point for foreign relations, and he is FAR too unstable, unpredictable to chance that shit with him.

I figured if Rubio could get into the late teens, he'd be the nominee. However, Cruz is right there with him and can benefit, along with Trump, if Carson continues to crater. It's time for the also-rans to get out of the race. They will have to eventually and it's better if the Dems know their eventual opponent sooner rather than later. If it's Trump or Cruz it may not matter much - the GE would sanity vs. insanity and the GOP establishment would be pissed - but if it's Rubio, he'll be a tougher opponent. No doubt he'd pick a strong VP. Cruz and Trump? Maybe not.

I was extremely confident Carson would fade - just too bland and his skin tone given the primary voters.

And, France propably hurt him more than anyone else, given his low energy and low intense style - conservatives go for the binkies when the $hit hits the fan, and trump's bombastic nature probably makes them feel better about him when the boogyman is on their mind.

I agree, Rubio is the worst case scenario. He isn't a complete moron, and looks the part. They would be able to foist him like Bush II and Reagen. And, he would be someone the establishment liked and the wing nuts would accept.

Cruz may be even with him now, but will have resistance in the primary from the establishment, and has too much history siding with, in fact leading, the fringes of the party.

I thought we would cycle through candidates on that side like the last two times, but it was pretty clear Trump had put the nomination in a sleeper hold late in the summer, at least until the actual voting started, he will be the leader.

The fringe candidates remember the last few years, Santorum actually had a week or two where he went from no where to be second before fading, McCain was on life support at one point.

If there entered into it, no reason not to ride out a few primaries and see if something breaks their way - plus, the fallback on that side is the $$$ made from bilking the faithful and no harm in staying in to keep your status up for that.

It's like few remember the way things cycled through the Republican primaries before where we had a new person on top for about a month at a time. EVERYONE got their shot at glory.

And it was pathetic.

Conversely, the Democractic side is more stable with a different set of variables at play that are still unfolding (and fascinating to watch).

But doing match-ups between the two doesn't make sense because there's no stability in the Republican side. It's like doing a match-up with an established team against another team that's still drafting its players and you don't know who is involved.

All the other changes are not statistically significant.

Another reason to have questions concerning the Q poll. Hillary Clinton viewed negatively by women 41% to 54% (and I am not a Clinton supporter, but still).

There are serious problems with polls this season because too many people refuse to answer and no serious study has been made about who were those people answering. It may be that because only less than 10 % of people answer, this introduces a serious bias. But this is pure speculation because this is not studied.

Also. and really interesting numbers

Could change their mind on candidate

Might change (total)65 (carson)71 (Cruz)65 (Rubio)75 (Trump)53

And you wonder why Bush. Kasich, and Christie are not dropping out.

And almost none of them talking about anything of real substance. Idiocracy is closer than we think.