New Poll Shows 18% Of Republicans Are Ignorant Dupes With Severe Mental Decay.

[Snarkoleptic]

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=29288

There is much being made about a new CNN poll that shows Donald Trump leading his GOP rivals in the race for the Republican nomination for president. However, there is less substance in these numbers than the media is pretending there is. What is astonishing is just how shallow the media analysis of these polls are. The ranking at which Trump finds himself can easily be explained by the clinical dementia of today’s Republican (Tea) Party. And despite these polls, Trump will never get the nomination or reside in the White House.

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Getting back to Trump’s placement in the GOP polls, the explanation for it is that there is a demographic in the Republican electorate that can best be described as batshit insane. And Trump has managed to secure a near monopoly on that addle-brained GOP faction. Prior polling has revealed that a significant subsection of the GOP holds some hysterically idiotic views. For instance:

54% of Republicans say that, “deep down,” Obama is a Muslim
7 in 10 Republicans in a poll say Obama doesn’t love America
51 percent of GOP primary voters think Obama born abroad
20% of Republicans believe that President Obama is the Anti-Christ

Having established that a fair percentage of Republicans embrace a measure of dumbassedness in frightening proportions, the fact that a particularly knuckleheaded candidate has corralled them into his camp is not especially surprising. In fact, it would be surprising if these dimwits did not coalesce around a similarly daft contender, just as they did in the last election cycle with Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, et al.

Consequently, Trump’s confederacy of dunces is sufficient in numbers to rise above his rivals, so long as there’s a lot of them. That’s because when you divide the remaining Republicans who are not wacko-birds (h/t John McCain) among the fifteen other candidates, there aren’t enough of them left to surpass the Trump/crazy constituency. That does not mean that Trump has a commanding lead. It means that there are way too many players on the field diluting the results for each of them. As they whittle down to a more manageable number, the 82% of non-Trump supporters will disperse to other candidates who will then tower over his paltry flock.

[meow2u3]

1. 18%?! Is that all?!

I thought the nunber of GOP dupes who don't know their asses from the elbows was 18% turned around. The study deliberately underestimated the actual percentage of ignorant GOP dupes so as not to piss them off.

[tavernier]

2. Yes, I think the numbers were flipped.

81% sounds much more logical.

[Vinca]

3. No way. 18% reflects the semi-sane of the party, not the numbnuts.

[Koinos]

4. Typo. Should have been 81%.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. K&FuckinR. nt

[Gothmog]

6. This explains why Trump is doing well in the polls

[Doctor_J]

7. And that is the smartest 1/5