Regarding Gary Johnson and Trump's poll numbers...

[SharpProgress]

This is just a simple observation I made from looking at TPM's poll tracker:

[link:http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contests/us-president-2016|

Look at each of the polls in which Gary Johnson is an option. In each of those we see Hillary's poll number stay relatively even. But Trump’s numbers are greatly diminished.

Given a non-Hillary, non-Trump option it appears Republicans/Independents are running from Trump. Has anyone else noticed this?

[emulatorloo]

1. Yes. That new guy, Evan McMullim, will take more votes from Trump

If his campaign gets off the ground.

https://www.evanmcmullin.com/

[whatthehey]

2. That's the idea

If the Greens don't take too much from the sane party and the McMullin MacGuffin peels off a few equivocating righties from Trump too all should be well.

[SwankyXomb]

3. If one or both of them makes a concerted push to strip votes from Trump

We could be looking at a pure blue map in November.