Posted on 10/21/2016 7:29:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has emerged as a clear favorite among serving U.S. troops despite a litany of campaign-damaging scandals that have hurt his popularity among the general population.
The New York real-estate developer polled at around 40 percent compared with just 20 percent for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and 27 percent for third-party candidate Gary Johnson, according to an October poll conducted by the Military Times and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families.
While Trump has a commanding lead among military personnel, he is not as popular among officers or women, polling at 26.2 percent and 25.7 percent, respectively, compared to Clinton's 31.7 percent and 36.1 percent. Johnson polls at 23.4 percent with women and 31.3 percent among officers.
Of enlisted personnel, Trump polls at 43.3 percent while Johnson and Clinton are at 26.2 percent and 18.4 percent, respectively.
Among the general population, Trump's popularity has taken a hit in recent weeks as allegations of sexual assault and misogyny hurt his image and popularity among the electorate. A recording from a little over 10 years ago was leaked to the press in which Trump was heard making remarks about women that many left-leaning publications have described as sexual assault. Trump and his most ardent supporters have played the incident off as mere "locker room talk" among men.
"Everyone is so worried about what Donald Trump has said over a decade ago or about his tax returns over 20 years ago," said one male Marine corporal who responded to the survey and was quoted in a Military Times article. "No one seems to care that Hillary Clinton is directly responsible for leaking classified information.
"It's an embarrassment that she is on the verge of becoming president."
According to the study, 62 percent of those surveyed had a very negative opinion of Trump's scandals, but seem unlikely to change their ballot choice come November.
And around 83 percent of those polled said they are dissatisfied with Clinton as the Democratic Party's pick to be president, and more than 65 percent said the same of Trump as the Republican nominee.
Four percent of troops said they have abundant confidence that Clinton can lead the military as commander in chief. About 9 percent said the same for Trump.
"We are currently in a race to the bottom, and it is a sad thing to witness that this is the best leadership options that the nation can bring to the table," wrote one male Navy lieutenant who took part in the polling.
Good. I was going to post the same thing.
Good. I was going to post the same thing.
Too bad their votes wont be counted.
Pray America wakes
WEIRDORAMA
https://www.intellihub.com/clinton-campaign-salvage-program-set-to-roll-out-soft-kill-technology/
Clinton Campaign “salvage program” set to roll out “soft-kill” technology that will mimic an “invading extraterrestrial force of nearly incomprehensible scale”
Actual final Clinton Campaign Strategy: ‘Use FIRESIGN soft-kill technology to create a fake alien invasion in which Obama will pass the baton to Hillary to become President’
By Shepard Ambellas - October 21, 2016
WASHINGTON D.C. (INTELLIHUB) — According to a rather revealing white paper obtained by Intellihub.com, the Clinton Foundation recruited the Benenson Strategy Group to prepare a “salvage program” for Hillary’s current and failing presidential campaign.
After interviewing over 2,000 “adult Americans” via telephone the agency collected and compiled data that offers the Clinton Campaign great insight into what needs to be done in order for Hillary to win the coming Presidential Election. And make no mistake, the information contained inside the paper is nothing less than shocking.
The strategy titled “Executive Overview: Hillary Clinton Flash-Crash to 12% Favorable, Losing 19-77% Nationally” is anticipated to be accurate within a 2 percentage point margin and shows Hillary badly losing the general election in virtually every scenario one could imagine against her rival Donald J. Trump who has unstoppable “momentum and enthusiasm.”
The executive overview goes on to point out that “distrust in the mainstream media is blunting the impact of the collective polling narrative” and shows Hillary at an all time low of only a “12%” favorable “in non-partisans.”
“Among independents, Hillary voters who are exposed to any alternative media (73%) are aware of the WikiLeaks emails and find them either disturbing,” while only “28%” of “voters who solely consume mainstream media” are aware of the Wikileaks emails, according to the paper.
The overview concludes the need for “severe strategy changes in November” and reads:
On a positive note, most respondents who were liberal-leaning (83%) or Independent (59%) were unaware of the messaging front concerning Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct. While the vast majority (88%) were aware of consensual extra-marital relationships, the mainstream media approach to the stories has left only 8% of liberal-leaning voters and only 19% of independents aware of the allegations of rape.
On a disturbing note, some 70% of Republican-leaning voters are aware bussed-in voting, false-face operations, and dead-man’s-party registration drives. This may necessitate severe strategy changes for November.
Additionally the paper shows that between the dates of Oct 10 and Oct. 13, only 13% of voters are dead set on Hillary Clinton and have already made their ‘minds made up,’ compared to 62% who are set on Donald Trump.
The data incorporated also shows that 31% of those polled wanted to see Hillary replaced with Jill Stein or even Joe Biden, who came in at 28%, then Bernie Sanders following at 18%. Moreover, 53% of those polled said that Hillary likely ‘hates everyday people,’ making it tough for her to win.
Question 16 of the poll asked pollsters ‘why Trump as the temperament to be the next president,’ with 33% answering: ‘He fights mainstream lies.’
Why Trump voters are “virtually unstoppable”
“Where 11% of Hard Clinton supporters could be dissuaded from voting by a strong storm and 17% would balk at a 90 minute wait, Trump’s strong support only diminishes in the events of catastrophic attacks on America. Some demographics (blue-collar white men between the ages of 30 and 64) were more likely to say they would vote in the event of an active riot standing between them and the ballot. No Clinton supporters made it past the Q20 screening question while 74% of Trump voters moved to question 21,” section II from the white paper reads, proving that Donald Trump will win in nearly every scenario.
Additionally the paper concludes that “poll-driven narratives have been pushed too far, alienating most of the voting population,” who now trust social media more than mainstream news and other sources.
Non-recommended salvage options
Outlandishly, yet to no surprise, the report even concludes that a “Red Dawn” scenario would not work and that using U.N. troops to infiltrate across the border would only ‘harden support for Trump.’
Then, “Cobalt Rain” was the next non-recommended option. “The public has been primed for radiological attack and stockpiles have been positioned but while the psychological impact of a Co-60 weapon is severe, the threshold of opportunity may have passed for this to stop a vote,” the paper reads.
Widespread riots, HAARP and even the activation of a more deadly strain of the Zika virus were also factored into the equation and but shot down as Trump supporters are even “willing to risk lethal pathogens to vote.” Which leaves us with one final option, recommended by the group.
Recommended salvage option: FIRESIGN
So this is where it gets interesting — and no, this is not a joke. This is real.
The salvage program actually suggests using “soft-kill” weaponry against the general population of the United States in order to sway the general election results in favor of Hillary Clinton and you are never going to believe how they plan to do it!
The Benenson Strategy Group wrote:
For almost two decades the Department of Defense and NASA have coordinated on a black book project under the codename FIRESIGN. FIRESIGN’s aim is to create a religious “awe effect” in enemy populations to create an instantaneous psychological soft-kill (abject submission). The operation uses high powered lasers to project real- seeming images on the sodium layer 100km above the surface. These images can cover hundreds or even thousands of square miles and can appear completely real, three dimensional, and can move.
These visual cues are augmented with pulsed ELF electromagnetic emissions (see: PROJECT SANGUINE) that attack the specific areas of the prefrontal cortex that are stimulated during religious experience. In limited tests, subjects have been able to be overwhelmed on both axis of vastness (an overwhelming of the subject’s frame of reference) and a powerful need-for-accommodation. The mix of these two will produce inaction, lack of focus on self or individual interaction, and gross transformations in mental equilibrium (a Road-to-Damascus Experience).
The ability to produce these effects across 23% of the continental United States is the objective of FIRESIGN and field tests in the Levant have proven successful.
The FIRESIGN scenario is that of an invading extraterrestrial force of nearly incomprehensible scale (massive floating cities descending, god-sized “walkers” among the clouds with terrifying weapons, wheels of fire and eyes, etc.). This phenomena, when activated will bring electoral and social systems to a halt and, in afflicted areas, will permit a narrative wherein POTUS is able to “Call a halt” to the invasion and then “hand over the torch” to Clinton, providing a basic continuity of state.
Projected aftermath
“The aftermath of FIRESIGN will be the psychological subjugation of areas where uprisings are most likely to occur. The induced trauma of FIRESIGN will provide ample cover to government and NGOs who will be “providing aid” (psychotropic to induce docility) and counseling services which will ensure further domestication,” the paper explains.
They plan to roll FIRESIGN out following the third debate, which took place Oct. 19!
“FIRESIGN will require a great deal of power, mobile command stations with nitrogen- cooled super-computers, and the co-opting of the ELF arrays. We have created a schedule and teams roster that can be moved into position following the third debate.”
H/T @Tabertronic/Twitter
Shepard Ambellas is an opinion journalist, filmmaker, radio talk show host and the founder and editor-in-chief of Intellihub News & Politics. Established in 2013, Intellihub.com is ranked in the upper 1% traffic tier on the World Wide Web. Read more from Shep’s World. Get the Podcast. Follow Shep on Facebook and Twitter.
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My guess is that the high Johnson poll numbers are due to the shy Trump voter effect. This was not an on-line poll.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has emerged as a clear favorite among serving U.S. troops.....AND THEIR FAMILIES.
Members of the military often dictate how the near family votes.
No mention of Hillary’s true scandals like the FBI or Benghazi coverup. Such corrupt bias. And I love how the officers have a different opinion. The political hacks from the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years.
My son is on active duty Army and says Trump supporters are afraid to acknowledge their support. His CO has called anyone who supports Trump
A racist. So I guess they would lie to a survey.
“Manufactured” interpretations of what constitutes a “scandal” is the operative concept here.
The Current Regime does not get involved in mere “scandals”, there are some full-fledged CRIMES being committed in the name of keeping the Current Regime in power, by either suborning various agencies of the Federal government, or by undertaking “dirty tricks” in the election campaign, as revealed in the hacked e-mails of John Podesta and others, and the revelations in Project Veritas. The Nixon Watergate activities, a “dirty tricks”” operation, were small potatoes compared to the all-out, full-court press of the conspirators in the direct hire of the Democrat National Committee and the Clinton Presidential campaign. That is where so much of their billions spent on this race are going, and NOT into voter education. It is more on the order of “suppress the vote”, which may or may not be an actionable offense, depending on who is running the Justice Department.
Hopefully, after January 20th, 2017, it will be Trump’s Justice Department.
but will the votes from military personnel overseas get here in time to be counted..... bet something will happen to them. Best I remember that has happened before.
BTT
Just once, I’d like to see a headline that reads “(insert group here) still supporting Hillary Despite Scandals”
So sick of our “news” media pushing lefty agendas and candidates.
Heroes
https://youtu.be/ekxI9IRtpAQ
GOP used to be 70-80 %
Shows what the military has become
“Too bad their votes wont be counted.”
To the contrary, with Obama bringing most of the troops home, those will be counted votes, with most going to Trump. Obama in his quest to destroy the US military may have inadvertently given Trump a couple of hundred thousand votes he wouldn’t have gotten because of voter disenfranchisement overseas.
WOW 27 percent for Gary Johnson?? A little surprised he beats her with the Military Vote. I thought it would be so sweet if he beats her here after latest hugely democrat oversampled polls showing Hillary leading. I know more people here in Arizona that voted or are voting for Johnson than I can find supporting her, Some a protest because they “Cant” support either of the other two, but most say it is because he is the only one for nation wide legalization... While I agree, it should be legalized, it bugs the crap out of me that anybody would vote for president with that as the reason in todays world! I doubt that is the reason with military and would think it has to be that they actually dislike her that much.
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