Posted on 05/02/2016 7:25:34 AM PDT by taildragger
Last week, Rasmussen Reports gave voters the option of staying home on Election Day if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the big party nominees, and six percent (6%) said that’s what they intend to do for now. Clinton and Trump were tied with 38% support each; 16% said they would vote for some other candidate, and two percent (2%) were undecided.
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But Trump edges slightly ahead if the stay-at-home option is removed. Trump also now does twice as well among Democrats as Clinton does among Republicans.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump with 41% support to Clinton’s 39%. Fifteen percent (15%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
This is the first time Trump has led the matchup since last October. Clinton held a 41% to 36% advantage in early March.
Trump now has the support of 73% of Republicans, while 77% of Democrats back Clinton. But Trump picks up 15% of Democrats, while just eight percent (8%) of GOP voters prefer Clinton, given this matchup. Republicans are twice as likely to prefer another candidate.
Yo mean the Rats won’t find a way to steal it?
Could have sworn that result wasn’t possible by multiple supporters of some other candidate.
Amazing! Hillary really just isn’t all the popular. She’s sinking fast.
As many have said, the more she is seen, the less people like her.
The trend is our friend.
Now that Trump is clearly the nom the never Trumpers are melting away. It was all psywar. They intended to vote Trump all along if he was the nom.
Trump will win the nomination and win the general electgion, unless the poisonous fruit fo this dragged out fruitless between him and that idiot Cruz ends. Crfuz might have a more accurate grasp of Constitutional niceties than Trump, but his dogged determination to assist the estblishment GOP and the tactics employed have revealed him to be shallow, craven, foolish and untrustworthy. More like his collegues in COngress than a conservative Crusader.
The poll shows that only 35% of men support Hillaey while only 38% of women support Trump. However, we never hear about Clinton’s problem with men voters.
The Bernie rallies were the clue that Hillary’s support is very weak.
He was a no-name no one had ever heard of, running to make it look like she was in a real campaign. It turns out the fake candidate is more popular than the real one.
They don’t like her. Democrats will sit this one out, and some numbers of them will actually cross over and vote Trump.
Its going to be a blow-out. They are going to have to stuff ballot boxes just to make it look closer than it really is.
She’ll never get more than 41% of the vote. The rest of the electorate already despises her.
So how is it 41-39 if they both get 38% support?? Do I need a degree in Common Core math or something?
Hillary is the presumptive candidate for the DEMe.
Bernie has only been a Democrat since December, and is a socialist.
Kasich is simply delusional, but splitting votes.
Cruz, once spurned by the GOPe as a TEA Party outsider and trouble-maker, seems to be the Great White Hope for the GOPe. Although that concept is slipping toward Trump, too.
Trump, who has expanded the tent for the GOP, which the purists HATE, is basically an analogue to Perot.
In 1992, Bill Clinton won with only 43%, GHWBush lost with 37.4%, and Perot got 18.9%.
We have a blend of the 1992 3rd party scenario which will be interesting at the least.
Hillary is in effect the incumbent. If she is that low in they polls it always meant people don’t want her.
Trump is getting a bump from his recent successes, but so what?
I’d been so ridiculous hearing every pundit mindlessly repeat that “every poll” shows Trump can’t win. It never was true.
I'd seen Richard Trumka on CNBC some weeks ago say that the Union leadership knows which of their members are Republicans vs. Democrats and they have an "active effort" going on to meet with their "Republican members" to "educate" them on the dangers of voting for Trump.
Yes, he used the words "dangers of voting for Trump."
The Cruz/Trump fight has been a roaring success for our rulers. Damaging both of the candidates and distracting attention from the RINOs in down-ticket primaries.
And as Trump says, "I haven't even started on Hillary yet!" Charge!
Interesting how the polls are left out that show him at 9% wth Latino voters, 75% of all women won’t vote for him, and trailing Hillary by 9-11% in the General.
But hey, whatever helps one sleep at night I suppose.
The GOP is nominating a disaster and the results are going to be a disaster.
Usually the Dem. is WAY ahead of the Republican this early in the game.
Hillary is screwed.
IMMIC, Clinton V Perot V Bush, Billy only got 43%.
That has always been my assumption as the Democratic Rank and File floor, with in the margin of error of your 41%, but let that go, we are close.
My thought is Her floor is sagging it is rotted and dangerous to walk across, you might fall through.
If Trump gets 25% of the African American Vote, picks up some amongst Pro Israel liberals in the Jewish Community, Working Whites that the DNC has been playing lip service too, how does this not be a lop sided race? AKA 59% Trump, 41% Hillary or worse for her?
I am not kidding, it could be a blowout of these Epic numbers.
I am not saying "Rass" has secret sauce like Zogby, but the Dominant media has always given Dem's a 5 to 10% advantage. With that said, what is her real floor? As low as 29% or 34%?
I'd love to know her internals, and I want to know why Bernie was so cocky in his press conference yesterday saying he will contest at their convention. What does Bernie know about her internals that we don't....
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