Posted on 05/31/2016 4:38:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With its nomination settled, the GOP has been healing its wounds, but Democratic feelings are still raw because of the ongoing fight between Clinton and Sanders.
The latest round of polls released prior to Memorial Day weekend, which showed Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a virtual tie, set off intense hand-wringing among Democrats, Clinton backers, and Trump detractors alike. They much preferred the polls from a month earlier giving the former secretary of State a double-digit lead over the real-estate mogul.
Whats lost on many people is that any trial heat between Trump and Clinton today is like comparing apples and oranges. Trumps nomination fight is over while Clintons contest is still at a messy stage. Republicans who backed one of the 16 other GOP candidates have coalesced to a significant degree, painfully progressing through Elizabeth Kübler-Rosss five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Many establishment figures, who I never thought would come to terms with Trump as the GOP nominee, have now moved to healing and closure, if somewhat reluctantly. They are quick to point out that Trump wasnt their first choice, but, when the bugle sounded, they and other party war horses got in line. Sometimes it was more a matter of lining up against Clinton rather than behind Trump, and some even found it difficult to endorse Trump by name. One former Republican senator compared Trump to the villainous Harry Potter character Lord Voldemort, he who must not be named. Even so, most partisans ultimately get behind their candidate, for better or worse, and so it is with todays Republicans....
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Trump in a landslide. Redstate, rightscoop and many others will be apoplectic. Love it!
yes- here’s the reality: for the first four months of 2016 the narrative was the GOP was eating itself alive and was a divided party in which no one would support Trump despite the immense backing he had from the electorate...but the narrative has now changed:
“In short, the parties have not evolved at the same rate. Trump has had the Republican field to himself and has begun healing party wounds, such as he can, while Clinton has not yet been afforded that opportunity because she has been busy fighting off Sanders.”
so now the story line goes, even though the rats are eating themselves alive don’t worry- hillary, who could be indicted at any time and still has the clinton foundation scandal in her way never mind the fact she does not have the same support of the electorate when compared to Trump, will win the nomination and the rats (who may be on the verge of kicking out party leader debbie awful hairdo shcultz) will come together...
more media nonsense...
Are you going to vote for Trump or just not vote since your man, Cruz has lost out?????
Nice try, but I’ve been pro-Trump ever since he announced.
Charlie Cook Sees GOP Winning Big in 2012
Republicans may be heading toward complete control of Washingtonmaintaining the House, taking the Senate, and likely capturing the White Houseif Election Day 2012 unfolds as Charlie Cook, acclaimed vote counter, predicts.
INCREDIBLE...this guy need to take a shower.
or find a new job...
It is behind a paywall!
If the truth was known, Hillary 25%-—Trump 75%...the paid off talking heads and radio show hosts don’t want to report it; the media twits aren’t smart enough; the MSM lies so much no one would believe it anyway...
But you heard it here first, the truth will come out and when it does, Hillary is NOT going to be in the White House, she’ll be in a house, one with bars on it...
Yes. Hence my comment. Like I said, at least you are toning ti down.
2DV is a good freeper.
I see no evidence of TDS in this post.
On NBCs Meet the Press on Sunday, the always-prescient moderator Chuck Todd said much the same thing but approached it in another way. First Todd pointed to the May 15-19 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, noting that Sanders bested Trump in the survey by 15 points, 54 to 39 percent, while Clinton had a scant 3-point edge over Trump, 46 to 43 percent. Todd then calculated that if 70 percent of the voters who supported Sanders against Trump subsequently moved into Clintons corner, she would then have an 8-point lead, 51 to 43 percent.
The only way you can add a percentage of one candidate's voters to another candidate is if the question where phrased as a three-way race. There is no indication that it was.
"Ceterum censeo Hillary esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
It also doesn’t take into account the nationalist vs. globalist and establishment factors. I know more than a few Sanders supporters who hate Hillary more than Trump simply because she is a ‘globalist establishment type’
I read it. It paints the race in terms of party affiliation, and party loyalty. If the portrait is accurate, then no one the Republicans nominated was going to win.
History of behavior after boss said no go.
I have yet to find ONE person who is saying they will vote for Hillary.
And when she wins the presidency (I believe that her and the CPUSA already have that wrapped up... why else would she not have press conferences ? She was FORCED to campaign this year by the DNC) I will still ask around for anyone who voted for her.
She’s kept afloat since day 1 by corruption and election fraud. And I have to repeat this everywhere I go: If Bernie is on the ballot, her win will be mathematically _impossible_.
I refuse to give this article any credibility. I sadly wasted over 8 years of my life rooting for Mittens to be POTUS—and I vividly remember so many pundits/pollsters predicting he was going to win last time. And, Mittens proved to be a horrible nominee who never put up much of a fight. No one can say that Trump won’t exhaust every ounce of his phenomenal energy to emerge victorious in November. Therefore, I am now extremely suspicious of polling going forward because I firmly believe that all TPTB are hell bent on spinning narratives to mislead voters about the actual state of the race.
Finally, Mr. Trump is already my president in my heart and I cannot accept that a man of his august caliber will lose to the likes of Crooked Hillary!! Mr. Trump MUST BE THE NEXT LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD!!!
That’s fantastic. You’re still a whiny Eeyore now.
Exactly what part of the article was Anti-Trump....
Tirade? .... seriously?
Where I have trouble understanding this is that the current polls are Hillary and Trump, no Bernie in site. So if a Bernie supporter is polled, do they choose Hillary or Trump? And do they stick by that in the general?
Just not clear on how wrapping up the Dem primary changes much.
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