Democrats are looking surprisingly unified behind their candidate. Republicans? Not so much.

[DonViejo]

By Paul Waldman

When the presidential primaries ended, there were divisions in both parties, and misgivings about both nominees. But there was reason to expect that Democratic divisions would persist longer. Ted Cruz’s voters didn’t constitute a movement or a faction in the way that Bernie Sanders’ voters did, and you could see the evidence in the two conventions: Cruz was roundly booed when he refrained from endorsing Trump and told Republicans to vote their consciences, while Clinton and the party had to practically turn the convention into a four-day celebration of Sanders in order to quiet his angry supporters, many of whom left Philadelphia in a state somewhere between mourning and rage.

But now things are looking very different. According to a round of polls taken after the conventions ended, it’s Democratic voters who are more united around their candidate.

If you’ll bear with me, I’d like to quickly go through some numbers and try to determine what they portend (HuffPost/Pollster helpfully gathers the polls here if you want to check them out for yourself). What I’m interested in at the moment is the simple question of how many Democrats say they’re behind Hillary Clinton and how many Republicans say they’re behind Donald Trump. So here’s the rundown. All of these national polls were released this week, and the surveys were conducted after the end of the Democratic convention:

— In Fox’s poll, Clinton leads Trump among Democrats by 87-5, while Trump leads Clinton among Republicans by only 78-12.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/08/04/democrats-are-looking-surprisingly-unified-behind-their-candidate-republicans-not-so-much/?wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1

[BobbyDrake]

1. Democrat "disunity" was a media invention created for pageclicks.

Media sites that trafficked in bullshit to advance that narrative, like Salon, lost my readership permanently.