The Fall Of Trump? New Poll Reveals His Numbers Have Dramatically Dropped

by Alex Alvarez | 2:32 pm, May 10th, 2011

» 48 comments

Donald Trump may have, for a time, captivated Republican voters to the point where many favored him as the front-runner among potential GOP presidential candidates. In late April, for instance, the businessman and reality television host led a Rasmussen poll of GOP primary voters, and, earlier that month, Public Policy Polling revealed that Trump led the entire GOP field by nine points.

At the time, Trump told radio host Rush Limbaugh that his popularity was simply the result of people responding to his “message” – specifically, the message that President Barack Obama may or may not have been born in the United States and, thus, owes it to the American people to prove his citizenship by releasing a copy of his long-form birth certificate. Daily Show host Jon Stewart called the early fervor over Trump “premature ejaculation,” while many big names within the Republican party – from “old school” Republicans like Karl Rove to the party’s “new blood,” like Rand Paul, and even conservative pundits like like Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck – all, at one time or another, expressed concern and frustration over Trump’s insistence on repeatedly trotting out the “birther” issue and, indeed, making it the cornerstone of what may or may not have been either a toe-dip into a formal campaign, a calculated effort to draw attention to his television show, or some combination thereof.

But it would now appear that Trump’s meteoric rise to the tops of these polls and the media frenzy that came along with it may end up being footnotes in his biography (Too Trump To Trump: A Portrait Of Donald Trump, with a foreword by Donald Trump. Illustrations by Trump, Donald). Today, Public Policy Polling revealed that his popularity has dropped both quickly and dramatically:

Donald Trump has had one of the quickest rises and falls in the history of Presidential politics. Last month we found him leading the Republican field with 26%. In the space of just four weeks he’s dropped all the way down to 8%, putting him in a tie for fifth place with Ron Paul.

Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are at the top of the GOP race with 19% and 18% respectively. Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin are further back at 13% and 12%, followed by Trump and Paul at 8%, Michele Bachmann at 7%, and Tim Pawlenty at 5%.

As Trump got more and more exposure over the last month Republicans didn’t just decide they weren’t interested in having him as their nominee- they also decided they flat don’t like him. Only 34% of GOP voters now have a favorable opinion of Trump to 53% who view him in a negative light.

Conservative blog Hot Air does, however, offer to place the results in some sort of perspective:

This is PPP, of course, a pollster that identifies itself as “a Democratic polling company,” but this is a survey of Republican voters alone, so sampling won’t be as much of an issue. If this is accurate, Trump would do better to invest in his television series rather than a vanity campaign for President — and he’s probably smart enough to know it.

Either way you slice it, the takeaway here seems to be that Trump is a masterful marketing professional, who knows how to get attention and inspire headlines. Whether he also knows when to stop, when to bow out when people find themselves saturated by any given name or brand or idea, is yet to be seen.

Now. Won’t someone please reach out and make sure Lawrence O’Donnell didn’t strain something while clapping enthusiastically?

h/t Public Policy Polling via Hot Air

2012, barack obama, Birth Certificate, Birther, Donald Trump, GOP, Polls

HTML5 Evangelist

I’m not even gonna’ lie,that’s some very “chic” hair.
skyfet

Thats the end of the Birthers, publicly embarrassed, thanks to Trump who went down with them.
Barack Must Go

Who’s the douche that chose that photo? We’ll have none of Barack’s head on a chimp’s body, yet this is OK.
skyfet

So I guess Plouffe was right after all, when he said The Donald has no chance of becoming President.
Barack Must Go

Kllwhiteybabies said:
i luv karma

Don’t worry libs. These latest numbers are nothing to worry your shitty little heads over as ” The Donald ” is a karma chameleon.

He’ll be back along side us ” real ” Americans kicking Obama ‘ six ways to Sunday ‘ to the curb.
Barack Must Go

skyfet said:
So I guess Plouffe was right after all, when he said The Donald has no chance of becoming President.

Consindering Plouffe is just a polite way to say juicy fart I wouldn’t go betting the farm on anything he says just yet.
JustPlayTheGame

This photo is an insult to this man. shame on you..

I truely believe a picture with hair combed and attached to obama’s body is in order to rectify this..

hehe..I said rectify..it sounds so dirty….
http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

wow, who could have predicted this?/////////////////
Left hardest hit by this news…
Nobodys_Stooge

Isn’t that what happens to a Gremlin when you get it wet?

I’m changing my screen name to Trump/Palin 12! Now THAT sounds dirty!
TrumpPalin2012

Nobodys_Stooge said:
Isn’t that what happens to a Gremlin when you get it wet? I’m changing my screen name to Trump/Palin 12! Now THAT sounds dirty!

Done!
eingriff

Trump was warned that something like this might happen.

He was also advised that Obama was adopted by Stanley Ann Dunham and Obama the alien Luo tribesman. The latest birth certificate is primarily the amended birth certificate reflecting the adoptive parents.

The original birth certificate, the contemporaneous record of birth showing actual birth parents, remains concealed. That’s what Trump should go after, not because it would disprove constitutional eligibility but because it would show Obama’s fraudulent posturing as the son of a black Luo tribesman who made it with a white chick.
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Only the dumb libs on this site thought Trump represented the republicans. They are easily fooled. They voted for Obama didn’t they? LOL. Now they think Obama can’t be beat. LOL He won’t be able to beat Alf by next year.
D REX

lololol …..ahh the Birthers ….laughing stock of America…how does the pie taste…..the one in your face……….. now listen carefully Birthers-Baggers and Babys (cry babies)…there is no one…repeat NO ONE ..that will beat Obama next year…..bcuz as bad as Obama might seem to be the Gop nominee will be worst
goesto11

For the love of God, it’s ‘foreword,’ not ‘forward.” Have you ever actually read a book?
Gasket

This is PPP, of course, a pollster that identifies itself as “a Democratic polling company,” but this is a survey of Republican voters alone, so sampling won’t be as much of an issue. If this is accurate, Trump would do better to invest in his television series rather than a vanity campaign for President — and he’s probably smart enough to know it.

Yes, PPP are honest and identify themselves as so, unlike Rasmussen whose polls are consistently Republican leaning (read analysis of their 2010 election polls) and he feigns ignorance by claiming his independence.
TrumpPalin2012

I don’t really have anything to add. I just like seeing my new avatar.

Carry on.
juan

skyfet said:
Thats the end of the Birthers, publicly embarrassed, thanks to Trump who went down with them.

It ain’t going away!

Everyone knows, including the Liberal Obama Statist Media, that Obama released another FAKE Certificate of Live Birth!

Also, he is ineligible because his Father is listed as Kenyan; thereefore, Obama is not a natural born citizen.
juan

D REX said:
lololol …..ahh the Birthers ….laughing stock of America…how does the pie taste…..the one in your face……….. now listen carefully Birthers-Baggers and Babys (cry babies)…there is no one…repeat NO ONE ..that will beat Obama next year…..bcuz as bad as Obama might seem to be the Gop nominee will be worst

Anybody can and will DEFEAT Obama!
MrTPar_taY

Obama’s Propaganda War Machine is successful when Trump isn’t. That seems so juvenile, so very Obama-ish.
grafxmail7

Barack Must Go said:
Who’s the douche that chose that photo? We’ll have none of Barack’s head on a chimp’s body, yet this is OK.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

This guy is the BEST!!! He reflects EXACTLY what all you DOUCHER RIGHTIES THINK and WANT to say he’s just DUMB ENOUGH to actually say it.

This is why Obama is going to win in 2012!!
RowdyHoward

At least they picked a nice picture of the guy.
RowdyHoward

TrumpPalin2012 said:
I don’t really have anything to add. I just like seeing my new avatar.

Carry on.

Nice one.
joe7

All Trump has to do is consentrate on China and how they’re ripping off this country and OPEC and they’ll come back!
George Sore-ohs

Actually this suits Trump just right. He never really wanted to be president.

As he said once “I guess I would have to move into the White House”. He just wanted to stir things up and will endorse a candidate that he sees as winnable in his mind.

He did what he wanted to do and that was smoke Obama out so that he didnt have his birth certificate to use a couple of months before the 2012 election.
felixw

How can Trump’s poll numbers be falling? I read Mediaite carefully, and have learned that Trump is the only candidate running for the Republican nomination. If there has been any other candidate it certainly hasn’t been covered here. So if Trump has no competition, how can he lose out in the polls? Can someone help me understand this?
Tedderman

Trumpty Dumpty sat on the wall

Trumpty Dumpty had a big fall

All the Kings Foxes and all the kings whores(media)

Couldn’t put Trumpty Dumpty back in the race for the republican nomination.

OK, it doesn’t rhyme but it’s true.
Bill Huggins

This falls in the “duh” category. The Pres run will be long forgotten by the time of NBC’s upfronts next week.

YAWN YAWN

Says alot about the idiots who responded to him like Pavlov’s dogs though

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
felixw

For the record, I made dozens of comments here during Mediaite’s Trump feeding frenzy pointing out that they were covering a trivial joke candidate with no chance of getting the nomination, meanwhile ignoring the substantive challenges to Obama coming from the Right. Now the poll comes out showing that both Romney and Huckabee — candidates virtually ignored by Mediaite — have more the MORE THAN TWICE the support of Trump among Repulbicans. And this is despite a mainstream media barrage that devoted at least ten times as much coverage to Trump than to all of the other candidates combined.

As this makes clear, Mediaite suffers acutely from an affliction spreading through the liberal media. They no longer cover stories based on their importance or urgency, but pick-and-choose depending on what makes for good jokes and gotcha points. I’m sure this makes the liberal reporters feel smug and superior, but more importantly it shows how out-of-touch with reality they are. Just like last year, when Mediaite virtually ignored the economy and foreign policy in the run-up to the election, instead running five stories every day on WITCHCRAFT IN DELAWARE. What a sad spectacle!

Wake up from your world of wishful thinking, Mediaite, and pay attention to the real news, not the make-believe news in liberal fantasy land.
Newsjunky

Look at all the far right wing dumbasses on here. A few weeks ago they were all masturbating over Donald Dump and now they don’t want anything to do with him. LMAO! What a bunch of hypocrites. Typical.
Gasket

Newsjunky said:
Look at all the far right wing dumbasses on here. A few weeks ago they were all masturbating over Donald Dump and now they don’t want anything to do with him. LMAO! What a bunch of hypocrites. Typical.

I think this will be their downfall in 2012 because they just latch on to the latest “new” anti-Obama & boorish blatherskite who happens to be on the scene. GOP primaries will be fun!.
redleaf

If Republicans have any brains left in their Obama-hating, conspiracy-theory loving, gun-totin’, war-mongering heads, they’ll want Trump out of there ASAP.
Hang your hopes on Trump and Obama is a shoo-in.
It just amazes me that the average Republican doesn’t understand that Trump is a circus act and an non-starter as a serious candidate.
Sam M.

felixw said:
For the record, I made dozens of comments here during Mediaite’s Trump feeding frenzy pointing out that they were covering a trivial joke candidate with no chance of getting the nomination, meanwhile ignoring the substantive challenges to Obama coming from the Right. Now the poll comes out showing that both Romney and Huckabee — candidates virtually ignored by Mediaite — have more the MORE THAN TWICE the support of Trump among Repulbicans. And this is despite a mainstream media barrage that devoted at least ten times as much coverage to Trump than to all of the other candidates combined.

As this makes clear, Mediaite suffers acutely from an affliction spreading through the liberal media. They no longer cover stories based on their importance or urgency, but pick-and-choose depending on what makes for good jokes and gotcha points. I’m sure this makes the liberal reporters feel smug and superior, but more importantly it shows how out-of-touch with reality they are. Just like last year, when Mediaite virtually ignored the economy and foreign policy in the run-up to the election, instead running five stories every day on WITCHCRAFT IN DELAWARE. What a sad spectacle!

Wake up from your world of wishful thinking, Mediaite, and pay attention to the real news, not the make-believe news in liberal fantasy land.

Seems like you are whining a little bit and its unbecoming.
david r

Oh, the humanity !
felixw

felixw said:
For the record, I made dozens of comments here during Mediaite’s Trump feeding frenzy pointing out that they were covering a trivial joke candidate with no chance of getting the nomination, meanwhile ignoring the substantive challenges to Obama coming from the Right. Now the poll comes out showing that both Romney and Huckabee — candidates virtually ignored by Mediaite — have more the MORE THAN TWICE the support of Trump among Repulbicans. And this is despite a mainstream media barrage that devoted at least ten times as much coverage to Trump than to all of the other candidates combined.

As this makes clear, Mediaite suffers acutely from an affliction spreading through the liberal media. They no longer cover stories based on their importance or urgency, but pick-and-choose depending on what makes for good jokes and gotcha points. I’m sure this makes the liberal reporters feel smug and superior, but more importantly it shows how out-of-touch with reality they are. Just like last year, when Mediaite virtually ignored the economy and foreign policy in the run-up to the election, instead running five stories every day on WITCHCRAFT IN DELAWARE. What a sad spectacle!

Wake up from your world of wishful thinking, Mediaite, and pay attention to the real news, not the make-believe news in liberal fantasy land.

Sam M. said:
Seems like you are whining a little bit and its unbecoming.

Not whining at all. Crowing, perhaps. But I’ve earned that right: everything I’ve said about Trump here in recent weeks has been validated and vindicated. Namely:

That the birth certificate speculation was not a serious issue — which Obama has now proven

That the birth certificate would not be a major factor in next Presidential election

That Trump would not find support among the Republicans

That the liberal media would push the Trump story as long as possible to avoid discussing the substantive problems with the Obama administration

That the birthers were getting played by the mainstream media, which was dishonestly pushing an issue that even they knew was bogus

That candidates that were ignored here at Mediate, such as Romney, were more likely to get the support of mainstream Republicans

Etc. etc.

So you can call it UNBECOMING, but I call it telling the truth in the face of Mediate Trump-birther feeding frenzy, which looks more and more ridiculous with each passing day.
Cancon2

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Trump looks like an electrician school dropout
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“Republicons” are doing what “Repbulicons” do so well. Flip-Flopping. Live by the Flip-Flop, die by the Flip-Flop. “Republicons” voted for “The Donald”, last month, before not voting for “The Donald”, this month.
Barack Must Go

grafxmail7 said:
HAHAHAHAHA!!!

This guy is the BEST!!! He reflects EXACTLY what all you DOUCHER RIGHTIES THINK and WANT to say he’s just DUMB ENOUGH to actually say it.

This is why Obama is going to win in 2012!!

What you and the other degenerates don’t get is the FACT that that Barack Hussein Obama ll tauted the living shit out of us ” real ” Americans for two and a half years with his secret life.

Trump came on the scene and in three and a half weeks bent Barack over like a pretzel and ______ed the smat ass ______ right out of him.

For that and that alone, no matter what I anyone may think about Trump’s trumped up persona, America owes him a debt of gratitude.

I for one hope that once his show is renewed and Obama is back treading water in the toilet The Donald goes after his ass for his school records and any and everything else the loser Obama is hiding.
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Gasket said:
…they just latch on to the latest “new” anti-Obama & boorish blatherskite who happens to be on the scene.

Yep. Right now, it seems to be the pizza guy who’s getting a lot of “ooohs” and “ahhhhs” from the “conservatives”.
http://theunrulyoflaw.blogspot.com theunrulyoflaw

Not surprising. Americans have a quota for “crazy,” which is why Charlie Sheen’s tour drew less attention as it limped its way around the country. The American public flirts with things that are bad for it, such as a Trump candidacy or a KFC Double Down, but protracted exposure makes it nauseous.
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Well, if a buffoon like Barrack can be president, anyone can be president. I wouldn’t mind Trump being president, although since he’s not ideologically consistent it might not be a good idea. Then again, Obama is consistently Marxist so that didn’t work out to well either.

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Trump used to be one of the favorites of the mainstream media, now that he has crossed swords with O’Bama “the magnificent”, they have turned on him like mad dogs.

The sycophants will not tolerate any criticism of their God!

Wake up you left wing loons!

The party is over, there is no free lunch and the country is bankrupt.

My prediction if this, if Obama is re-elected and after the total economic collapse that will ensue from his left wing policies, the ensuing back lash will have you lefties hiding out like the nazis did after the end of WWII.
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Now if we could get a poll put out by a republican organization, and have the count even lower for Trump support, that would be great. It’s time republicans came to their senses. The only reason anyone likes Trump is because he’s filthy rich and has a huge opinion of himself and a crappy reality TV show. I hope that jerk is on his way out.
Resistance Is Futile

Conservatives are fickle stupid people. Only a pure idiot would be gullible to be taken in by a piece of human trash like Trump. How pathetic Republicans are.
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