Posted on 06/26/2016 11:01:12 AM PDT by Hojczyk
CBS releases 2016 polls from battleground states like Florida, Colorado, and Wisconsin, showing that a significant number of voters are sympathetic to messages similar to the successful “Brexit” campaign in the UK’s EU Referendum.
rom CBS News:
Battleground states are called battlegrounds for a reason: They’re often close, and 2016 looks like no exception.
Hillary Clinton holds narrow leads over Donald Trump across a number of key states of Florida (up three points, 44 to 41 percent); Colorado (Clinton 40 percent, Trump 39 percent); Wisconsin (Clinton up 41 percent to 36 percent) and North Carolina, which has flipped back and forth between the parties in the last two elections, where it’s Clinton 44 percent and Trump 42 percent.
In the wake of the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom this week, many wondered if the same sentiments that drove voters to leave the UK, such as voter unease about the economic and cultural effects of globalization, were at work in the U.S. presidential election, too.
Similar sentiments underpin Donald Trump’s general election vote, though there is not yet enough for him to surpass Clinton. Trump is also competitive in large part because of partisanship, as rank-and file Republicans continue to get behind him, even as Republican leaders have been more lukewarm toward the way Trump is running his campaign.
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This is why the MSM is saying BREXIT is bad for your 401k
They are scared to their core that this is more popular than polling indicates.
And it IS vastly popular even in Blue States
Unchecked immigration, either by a system that allows unfettered travel between nation states, or one that intentionally subverts our laws, our Constitution and our sovereignty.
The problem is that the effects of this unchecked infestation is not lost on normal Americans. We see it EVERYWHERE. In grocery stores, Walmart - anywhere people amass.
We see them and we all know what they are, how they came here and what they represent.
It is more difficult for the younger among us, especially when it so plain to see for someone my age, but it still gets there nonetheless. It’s there in the MSM blurbs and ad new items how we Americans are racists and xenophobes. All the while they grab their crotches and hold their signs about how this is their country.
I think there is a difference between “mass deportations” and “not deporting illegals.”
Didn’t I hear him say he would start with the bad guys and get them outta here and deal with these horrid sanctuary cities? I think I did.......
Yesterday I met a lesbian latina with an illegal mom who supports Mr Trump. Muslims scare her way more than ICE.
It’s over anyway.....the ABC poll has the beast ahead by 12 points. Time to throw in the towel....we’re screwed.....sar
But here's the best part. The headline refers to a 2-way race. But it's NOT a 2-way race. Paragraph three:
"When the horserace is expanded to four candidates - including Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party's Jill Stein - Clinton gets support from 39 percent of voters, Trump gets 38 percent, Johnson 10 percent and Stein 6 percent."
So it's Clinton by 1.
Coercive “taking” power, when wielded against the citizenry by either the government alone (taxing), or in combination with another power (unions or other collective power groups), is destructive of freedom and prosperity. The following statement by Sir Winston Churchill, upon leaving office as Prime Minister in 1945, was prophetic for Great Britain, and as it turns out, the United States and the world.
“I do not believe in the power of the State to plan and enforce. No matter how numerous are the committees they set up or the ever-growing hordes of officials they employ or the severity of the punishments they inflict or threaten, they can’t approach the high level of internal economic production achieved under free enterprise. Personal initiative, competitive selection, and profit motive corrected by failure and the infinite processes of good housekeeping and personal ingenuity, these constitute the life of a free society. It is this vital creative impulse that I deeply fear the doctrines and policies of the socialist government has destroyed. Nothing that they can plan and order and rush around enforcing will take its place. They have broken the main spring and until we get a new one, the watch will not go. Set the people free. Get out of the way and let them make the best of themselves. I am sure that this policy of equalizing misery and organizing society—instead of allowing diligence, self-interest and ingenuity to produce abundance—has only to be prolonged to kill this British Island stone dead.” - Winston Churchill
In the early days of America’s experiment in liberty, its Founders warned of oppressive taxation by those elected to represent the people. Under their “People’s” Constitution, the people were left free, and the government was limited.
While Europe struggled with oppressive government regulation and intervention, the genius Founders of America recognized enduring truths about human nature, the human tendency to abuse power, and the possibilities of liberty and opportunity for individuals, when left free to “pursue happiness” within a framework of order and the rule of law. Richard Frothingham’s 1872 “History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States,” Page 14, contained the following footnote item on the condition of citizens of France, according to the April, 1868, “Dublin Review”:
“Footnote 1. M. de Champagny (Dublin Review, April, 1868) says of France, ‘We were and are unable to go from Paris to Neuilly; or dine more than twenty together; or have in our portmanteau three copies of the same tract; or lend a book to a friend: or put a patch of mortar on our own house, if it stands in the street; or kill a partridge; or plant a tree near the road-side; or take coal out of our own land: or teach three or four children to read, . .. without permission from the civil government.’”
Clearly the government of France at that 1868 date laid an oppressive regulatory and tax burden on citizens, robbing them of their Creator-endowed liberty and enjoyment thereof. Frothingham observed that such coercive power constituted “a noble form robbed of its lifegiving spirit.” Frothingham’s history may be read online at http://www.archive.org/details/riseofrepublicof01frot
Thomas Jefferson warned Americans:
“To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.” —Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
Note Jefferson’s very last thought here. He declares that when government taxing and debt have reached certain levels, in order for individuals to survive, then their chosen “employment” becomes “hiring ourselves to rivet their (the government’s) chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.” Might that account for why it is that it is government employment levels which have risen at such great rates?
Inasmuch as government creates no wealth and has no money, the pay for every job in government must first come out of the pockets of hardworking citizens in the private sector or be printed out of thin air, or borrowed (to be paid eventually from the pockets of future generations).
Ahhh, guess that’s what one could call “redistributing” wealth! In Jefferson’s words, it’s called “rivet(ing) chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.”
He gave money believing it was going to charity. Little did he or anyone else know at that point that the money was going into their pockets. Wise up! This just proves that Trump is a charitable man, nothing more, nothing less.
Understand. He’s the game we have now though.
Sheesh, that's been explained about a hundred thousand times, including directly by Trump himself a number of times.
What is it about the explanation that you disagree with?
It’s the same phenomenon that drove Cantor out of office.
Governments can only go so far in working against the people they are supposed to be working for, before a revolt occurs.
What difference does it make, you are not voting for him anyway. He said he was not going MASS deport by the way.
Pray America wakes
However you cut it, by all definitions he’s a liberal. If he gets elected, don’t be surprised if he disappoints. Yeah, I hope he beats the beast, but am under no illusions as to his motives.
These polls are wildly inaccurate (at best) and both the polling firms and the media outlets know it.
Look at the Bexit vote in England. The “best” polls on the eve of that referendum suggested “stay” would win by 3-4 points, perhaps as many as five. Instead, “leave” won by a three point majority—that’s roughly a swing of six points between what the polls suggested and actual results on election day.
Dwindling use of landline phones and the availability of caller ID on cell phones has destroyed polling. Survey firms are finding it nearly impossible to build an accurate sample, since so many people in various groups will not answer if they think it’s a polling company or some sort of telemarketer. And if that’s not bad enough, most of these “polls” are still over-sampling Dims, in some cases, by as much as 8-10 points.
Look at the current round of polling. NBC/WSJ has Clinton up by one, while an ABC/Washington Post poll gives her a double-digit lead. If there is any degree of accuracy in the current methodology, there shouldn’t be that sort of margin. Equally hilarious is there insistence at giving Hillary a “slight lead” in state polls where the current gap is within the margin of error.
This goes way beyond the “secret” Zogby sauce we used to write and laugh about here on FR.
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