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I might be taking liberties with the headline
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bloomberg-poll-clinton-trump
Chellee
(2,101 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)This is gonna be so good.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Find a mechanic
PJMcK
(22,041 posts)But then there's this quote from the article:
"It also showed that 55 percent of those polled said that they would never vote for Trump."
If that's even within say a 5% margin of error, Secretary Clinton will be moving into her old home.
Trump is the nominee.
lindysalsagal
(20,721 posts)They voted for schrub, too. Twice.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)including men who can't stand the thought of having to have reasonable controls on their precious
Bucky
(54,041 posts)63% of women say they'll never vote for him. I think he has right now about 25% of the women's vote. Clinton has over 60% of women. This is a demographic nightmare for Trump.
FSogol
(45,515 posts)He'll lower his support of men while increasing the percentage of people who puke a little when hearing his name.
a kennedy
(29,696 posts)safeinOhio
(32,713 posts)Plan to get Hilary elected is working well.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)struggle4progress
(118,321 posts)Oneironaut
(5,520 posts)He is attractive to a voter who only looks at politics superficially. These are the single issue voters, people who are fed up with career politicians, and people who feel ignored by Washington because they aren't either rich or a corporation. They're tired of outrageous stories of people taking offense at insignificant things, stories of the government giving more of their money to corporations who don't need it, and a relative sense of poor security and leadership.
Has Washington failed? Of course it has. Simply calling Trump voters "crazy" or "racist" ignores why these people feel the way they do, and why they have been easily conned by a carnival barker who has not once laid out a concrete plan for this country. Simply put, people are desperate.
At the birth of every Fascist movement is desperation and alienation. When people see no hope in the present course, they may deviate from it in unpredictable ways. This is a dangerous time for a country. People see a continuation of the path off w cliff with Hillary. They would rather take the bait of the unknown path (which is without a doubt several thousand times worse).
Trump is not an idiot. He's playing the part of the savior: everything the current government is not. It's a tired path, but effective when a nation has reached suvh a level of hopelessness and despair that anything looks better than what we have.
They aren't the majority yet. We still have time. I don't bieve Trump will win, but what about the next "Trump?" The seed has been planted - it's up to us now to prove our worth and to stop writing off the metastasizing sickness that grows at the heart of this country.
2naSalit
(86,748 posts)are lifetime members of the Honorary Order of the Deranged Buffoons, Queens Chapter.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)And it makes it make sense.
spanone
(135,858 posts)Bucky
(54,041 posts)if you get my meaning
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)Bucky
(54,041 posts)I can have a principled argument with Gary Johnson. I would love it if Libbers supplanted the Republicans as America's right of center party. I would rather have a debate about how efficient it is to provide free lunches to poor kids instead of whether the whole program should be privatized and run by the governor's brother Neil
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)a small minority are leftists as well.
Lord Magus
(1,999 posts)AntiBank
(1,339 posts)Weekly Standard crowd, also some right radio talkers like Hugh Hewlitt, nutter Glenn Beck, Erick Erickson, etc.