Posted on 08/05/2016 7:50:02 AM PDT by seastay
A raft of new national and battleground polls released Thursday found Donald Trump slipping well behind Hillary Clinton one week after the end of the Democratic convention, and as the Republican nominee reels from a public feud with the parents of a slain Muslim American soldier.
"There has clearly been a significant movement toward Clinton in the last week," said Ken Goldstein, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and polling analyst for Bloomberg Politics. "Some of it is a Clinton post-convention bounce, but more of it seems to be a Trump deflation or implosion."
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A NBC/Wall Street Journal national survey found Trump trailing Clinton by 9 points (up from five points last month).
Ayres cautioned that polls at this juncture early may yet be fluid.
"The general rule is that you wait a couple of weeks after both conventions finish. Before you start assuming that polls are particularly predictive," he said. "Around the middle of August we'll start to get a sense of where the race stands after the dust settles from the Democratic convention and the Trump convention."
Goldstein said polling averages are more instructive than any one poll, but that a steady Clinton lead of 7 or 8 points could harm Republicans down the ballot.
"Fifteen points is more than Ronald Reagan won in his landslide victories," he said. "If you're in a world where it's over 10, then this is a landslide of historic proportions."
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I am very conservative and support Trump and have really liked what he has to say on most occasions but I cannot stand the guy when he puffs his chest out and acts like a little child when criticized, he is ANNOYING sometimes and I don’t like him when he has his thin skinned tantrums. I am sure that most of us agree with this, can we at least admit it? His likeability goes way downhill when he acts like an ass and he is going to blow this election unless he sucks it up, tames his ego for a while, and acts like a CEO. He is way above most of these petty arguments he gets into, they just make him ugly,and his message is very simple and easy to convey. Hillary is part of the rigged system, she is a liar, I represent CHANGE, I will change the rigged system to benefit the people again, I want law and order and I know how to get our economy cooking with gas. That’s it, he does this, he wins going away.
Until those TV commercials hit, have you put a bumper sticker on your vehicle or a sign deployed for all to see?
Couldn’t you come up with a more intelligent response?
Reminds me of middle-school.
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The election is 90 days away. Way too early to talk about imploding campaigns.
I wont eat your children’s food....now go out and molest small mammals.
In the meantime, we can all help him build his infrastructure and gear up for when the time for a media blitz is right by donating to his campaign and Donate to FR while we are at it.
Anyone on FR that claims to not want Hillary, and who isn't also donating to Trump and FR may as well be liars who just like a free place to spout off while others do the heavy lifting. There are a lot of adjectives for them and none are flattering.....
What, again? Ever month since August 2015 the media has said this. Now, it is daily.
Two points:
The media / democrats, may have successfully sold to independent and swing voters the notion that Trump is unacceptable as POTUS (helped along by Trump’s complete lack of message discipline). If so, big trouble.
Trumps ability to claw his way back, a la 1980 Reagan is vastly reduced by the comparative lack of White voters in 2016. (And by Trump’s lack of Reagan-like charm and focus)
You may be the most bile spitting, hateful leftover from the past person i’ve seen on here and not valuable at all as a contributor to the cause or conservative.
Your statement shows a hatred that only God can help you with
And you are ignorant because you believe EVERY word that the media says about Donald.
Do some research int between your hate.
rrod just showed where the problem lies. Too manh like him not reading the facts but just spewing hated against trump.
Free Republic would do well not to be rah rah but to fight for Trump rather than dismissing that the oligarchy and media servants are having some success among busy voters at Palinizing Trump.
Joking about what a fool Trump is, is heard every day, on every kind of tv show, radio, amongst people in shops, on the street. It is ok to trash him, it’s funny. Low info (or just busy)* voters osmose this. I am NOT being a doomsayer but here on FR Romney was sure to win and anyone who doubted it was drawn and quartered. WE NEED TO DOUBT a little, and we need to fight.
The disappointment after that election was so great I became mad at FR, not any people, just the happy sappy echo chamber that didn’t fight enough. We fought damn hard with the Swift Boat Vets to keep Kerry out. We will need to fight damn hard to have the Most Corrupt Person With or Without A Vagina stay clear of our White House.
When they demonize our person, they often have great success. Alinsky works. Please worry, and fight. Dennis Prager’s secret for happiness is to plan for the worst. It’s foolish to plan for the best.
* please remember. Some low info voters are working too hard to focus on politics. They are caring for babies, for seniors with dementia, cleaning houses, selling products, defending themselves from a difficult world, maybe even ill. BUSY. They would vote TRUMP if they knew the truth. By accident they hear the demonizing of him and the canonizing of the Beast. Help them out. This is key. GET HILLARY’S CRIMES out there.
Must be a Cruz diehard. It’s that NY values thing.
geez stop being so reactive and weak in the knees.
What has Trump said that was so awful?
I’ve looked into the accusations and they’re taken out of context or are completely wrong.
Someone was right, a lot of whine drinking going on around HEre lately.
I fell for it too for a while. Then i read HUNDREDS of his tweets and nothing wrong with any of them.
He was JOKING about hte baby in the audience.
He wondered if the wife was allowed to speak to point out how NON DEMOCRATI islam is.
Let’s get some guts and support him.
yep. I see people falling apart here. Their testicles fell off their bodies.
It’s August 5th!!! Not November 5th.
PEOPLE, GET SOME GUTS AND DNOATE OR CALL OR GO TO RALLIES OR SUPPORT HIM IN SOME OTHER WAY BUT AT THE VERY LEAST KEEP YOUR FAGGOTY WISHY/WASHY COMMENTS TO YOURSELVES.
Trump!!!!!
Trump knows exactly what he is doing. He has them exactly where he wants them.
You get it. You feel like I do. People here get into deep denial and think they can coast because THEIR family is voting for Trump. We can’t coast. Work.
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