New ABC -WAPO Poll - Trump 24% Walker 13% Bush 12%/Clinton 68% Sanders 16% Webb 5% O'Malley 2%

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Support for Trump fell sharply on the one night that voters were surveyed following those comments. Telephone interviewing for the poll began Thursday, and most calls were completed before the news about the remarks was widely reported.

Although the sample size for the final day was small, the decline was statistically significant. Still, it is difficult to predict what could happen to Trump’s support in the coming days and weeks as the controversy plays out.

Even with the drop in support on the final night of the survey, Trump was the favorite of 24 percent of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. That is the highest percentage and biggest lead recorded by any GOP candidate this year in Post-ABC News polls and marks a sixfold increase in his support since late May, shortly before he formally joined the race.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who announced his candidacy a week ago, is in second place, at 13 percent, followed by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, at 12 percent. Walker’s support is strongest among those who describe themselves as “very conservative.”



In the contest for the Democratic nomination, former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton maintains a wide lead, with 68 percent of registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents saying they would vote for her today in a caucus or primary. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is drawing big and enthusiastic crowds in many states, is in second, at 16 percent. Support for Sanders has grown with each Post-ABC News poll this year.

Trailing the top two candidates are former senator Jim Webb (Va.), at 5 percent, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, at 2 percent, and former Rhode Island governor Lincoln D. Chafee, at 1 percent.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-trump-surges-to-big-lead-in-gop-presidential-race/2015/07/20/efd2e0d0-2ef8-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html



Trump, however, could become a factor if he were to leave the GOP race and run for president as an independent. The survey shows that in a hypothetical three-way race, Clinton is at 46 percent, Bush is at 30 percent and Trump is at 20 percent among registered voters.

[lapfog_1]

1. wow, Lincoln Chafee got 1%

That's a huge increase in popularity from the last polling results!

[randys1]

2. It's funny. I know from people who know him that John McCain is a spoiled, temperamental asshole

who wasnt qualified to wash cars let alone be a powerful politician.

And yet, this isnt what the vile and despicable teaparty use to criticize McCain.

They hate him because he was too liberal.

[KittyWampus]

6. McCain is a fiction. He was invented by his handler Mark Salter.

[yeoman6987]

3. Poor Hillary only at 68 percent

Who was it that was saying she is in trouble?

[okasha]

11. She's in "free fall."

Inexplicably, upward.

[Metric System]

12. Good one! You could say she's defying gravity.

[geek tragedy]

4. TRUUUUUUMMMMMPPPPPP!!!!!! nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. I doubt we get Trump at the end of the day but we might get Walker.

eom

[George II]

8. Really doesn't matter....either will be beaten in the General Election

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I am confident of that

But Walker would be easier than Bush lll.

[KittyWampus]

5. Webb is doing better than O'Malley.

-sigh-

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. He represents a dying wing of the party-conservative Democrats.

But they serve a purpose in red states.

[sufrommich]

13. I don't get that either.O'Malley is running an excellent campaign.

It's a long way to the primaries,he's still got time.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. As I said Bernie has consolidated the ABC vote.

Webb is getting some conservative Democrats.