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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...or Freepers.
what are you, nuts?
Her husband WAS A SERIAL RAPIST and SHE HELPED SILENCE HIS VICTIMS!
And you think we will by asking her why she won’t put America first? Holy kee-ripes that is the most ignorant thing I’ve read here in years.
Just remember that the most recent poll showing Clinton ahead by 10 pts was a sample of registered voters not likely voters and over weighted Dems by a hundred people. Not likely accurate.
Trump does not need ads at this point. He gets tons of free media
All he has to do is send a tweet and he gets more air time than anything HilLIARy has done all week.
Trump could run his entire campaign with a webcam and internet server in his office.
I can’t even imagine Jeb! as the nominee.
Tough as wet Kleenex.
We’ve got to get Trump elected.
If the people are this stupid we certainly get the Caligula we deserve!
I agree that Donald Trump should not have continued to personally respond to the Senior Khan--particularly once the media demonstrated their total bias in their coverage. He should have let someone far down on his staff, respond by attacking the Clinton campaign for misusing the hero
Exactly. But the MSM is trumping (Hmmmm) up nonsense and Donald is giving them the issues.
Whether true fictitious, whatever, that is what the public is hearing.
Donald is a businessman, deal maker. As such it doesn't matter if the people he's dealing with like him or not, they just want the deal.
Politicians need the folks to like them. At least better than the opponent.
Trump is seen as a bully, erratic, thin-skinned.
Trump needs to stay on the issues, avoid the personal swipes at whoever crosses him.
Personally I think it may be too late.
Of course I'm voting for him.
Lies!!!
Remember how Trump lost every primary according to Rupert Murdoch's lying mediots using push polls/NBC/Wall Street Journal national surveys for Faux's unfair and unbalanced weekend Trump bashing shows?
Better now then in October
Ill vote for him...I voted for him in the primaries..I sent him money...doesnt change the fact Trump is pure scum, a NYCer with a big mouth.....
Trump is typical big mouth NYCer scum....but I’ll vote for him.
Trump just seems tone deaf about the fact that his big mouth gets spun exponentially by the MSM. That is why he needs to rev it down.
Reagan won by over 15 points in 1984. It was eighteen I believe, so this Goldstein was way off on that.
Otherwise, this article may unfortunately be true. Unless you just reject polling altogether, how could one be comforted and buoyed by the lead Trump took in the polls two weeks ago, but now reject the same polls when they show him falling and (even worse) Hillary rising?
You'll vote for pure scum? Why not go for Hillary since she certainly tops Trump in being pure scum metric?
You just conceded the media creates fiction. Then you state he has to stay on message. I've seen three of DT's rallys on YouTube. He's on message. The media controls the message. Not DT. He could be as faithful as possible to the message and the media will pervert it. You might remember the vanilla candidate mittens. When his message was pablum and non-controversial the media went wild with a PAC fabrication that mittens had caused a woman to die of cancer. Then they created a further fiction that his campaign was imploding. Therefore your point is lost as to suggest anything Trump is doing wrong. The MSM wants to emasculate Trump. Once they believe they've done that they can concurrently simply create issues and stories out of whole cloth. Instead of turning the 'concern' to Trump turn it on the fabricators in the media. One voice in dissent and fear feeds the next.
As stated...Trump is NYC scum..shoot his fat mouth off....Americans in general do not like NYCers. Of course I’ll vote for him
As stated...Trump is NYC scum..shoot his fat mouth off....Americans in general do not like NYCers. Of course I’ll vote for him
We have to win this fight. Hillary has already told us, that she wants to flood the land with people who do not share our values. America--as we have known her--was not just a game of musical chairs.
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