For All Those Saying Trump Has Majority Support, Here's A Stunning Fact

Daily Wire ^ | 3/25/2016 | Hank Berrien

[conservativejoy]

Donald Trump has not won a majority of the vote in any state he's won. Ted Cruz has done it twice, in Wyoming and Utah.

Trump's enormous unpopularity with the majority of voters is a telling indicator that he simply cannot win a general election. With his constant attacks on women, whether they be Megyn Kelly, Carly Fiorina, or Heidi Cruz, Trump's paltry appeal among women cripples him even further.

As expert mathematician Nate Silver pointed out on Friday, if women sour on Trump, the results of his efforts in the general election would look like this:

For all of Trump's talk of winning; he only has won consistently when he was facing a plethora of candidates. In one on one matchups with Ted Cruz or Hillary Clinton, polls show he loses.

Silver also offered a projection of how one-sided a prospective Hillary Clinton-Trump matchup would be, asserting Clinton would win 374 electoral votes and Trump would win 164.

For all of Trump's talk of winning; he only has won consistently when he was facing a plethora of candidates. In one on one matchups with Ted Cruz or Hillary Clinton, polls show he loses.

Silver also offered a projection of how one-sided a prospective Hillary Clinton-Trump matchup would be, asserting Clinton would win 374 electoral votes and Trump would win 164.

[the_doc]

No, I'm on this thread to teach you guys, not to do your homework for you.

(But since you guys are just Trumpsters, maybe I ought to give you a hint: Read my #125 and #132. [Then maybe you ought to read all of the stupid posts on the thread trying to dismiss the facts presented in the original article at the top of the thread.])

[eyedigress]

Well that’s it. I’m voting for Hillary.

[eyedigress]

Homework? Really?

and you call your students bad names as well?

[Mechanicos]

Now that Cruz is dropping out over the FEC investigation and the Cuban Mistress Crisis watch Trump go way up over 50% :)

[mkjessup]

No, I'm on this thread to teach you guys, not to do your homework for you.
(But since you guys are just Trumpsters, maybe I ought to give you a hint: Read my #125 and #132. [Then maybe you ought to read all of the stupid posts on the thread trying to dismiss the facts presented in the original article at the top of the thread.])

Oh you've already 'taught' us "Doc", you've taught us from your first insipid, condescending post that you're just one more Cruz Worshiper hoping that Saint Ted is going to arise from the political grave that he's busy digging for himself.

Here, when your idol comes crashing down, we're here to help you through it:

[Mechanicos]

I see you pushing the same BS fake polls and BS GOPe narrative. After losing your ass so many times you would have learned now those talking points do not work.

[Mechanicos]

Hes not a Cruz supporter Doc is a Hillary supporter notice the attitude and dishonesty is pure liberal snarkiness.

Conservatives know that lying like that only angers us.

[mkjessup]

A most astute observation good FRiend! ;)

[mad_as_he$$]

The IRS isn’t going away. To many fifedom’s built on it. Even with Cruz’s plan there is still an enforcement agency, that will have the same powers the IRS has - face it the tax man wants his due. As for Europe the VAT tax has been around for decades and still costs business a great deal of time and energy to administer. I just got off the phone with my German business friend, he despises the VAT and is vocal about it. In Europe labor value added to the product is taxable, typically in the US it is not. Go figure that out in a large mfg facility. But hey if you never have run a business VST sounds great.

[the_doc]

Duh.

[the_doc]

Duh.

[ilgipper]

Huh/ Trump is utterly destroying any chance he had of winning the general election. This has nothing to do with Cruz or any other candidate. He’s made it virtually impossibly to win by acting like a 2 year old.

[Lopeover]

We have one chance to break the oligarchys hold on the US. That person is Trump.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

The general public also does not trust Ted Cruz!!! Notice that not many polls have surfaced recently. Methinks...Ted Cruz is in a nose dive politically, and the media, pundits and pollsters do not want to show it!!! We shall see. To me....Ted Cruz is naught but the chief of “Sleaze”!!! End of story!!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

I’m beginning to believe the only difference between the

Cruz Club, and Culture Club is the sexual proclivities : )

[mkjessup]

I’m beginning to believe the only difference between the
Cruz Club, and Culture Club is the sexual proclivities : )

I don't wanna know what they're doing
with their karma chameleons.

[stephenjohnbanker]

LMAO !!

[stephenjohnbanker]

“No, I’m on this thread to teach you guys, not to do your homework for you.”

That’s good, because your “street brains” wouldn’t fill a thimble....LOL

A major class A commercial RE developer(projects 100, million to one billion) has to deal with....

1) city politicians and govt. agencies.

2) County polititians and govt. agencies

3) State politicians and govt. agencies

4) federal politicians and govt. agencies.

5) Must be an expert in banking and finance.

6) Must correctly gauge major national and regional markets.

8) Must be able to promote & market project to the public long before completion.

These things make Trump in a class by himself, compared to ANY OTHER POLITICIAN. period!

[the_doc]

I am no Cruz worshiper. He has faults, just the same as all of us have. But I do know that Cruz has been polling better against Hilary than Trump has--perhaps for the very reasons I mentioned in my own recent post.

If I may change the subject, I would like to offer some comments about your tagline.

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You indicated in your tagline that you think that the 2016 election is about allegiance to the United States. I agree with your words, but I am not convinced that very many Trump supporters, or even very many Americans, understand what the proper noun “United States” ultimately means.

By the same token, I ao not think very many American fully grasp what allegiance to the United States necessarily entails.

I am not exaggerating when I say that. Let me explain below.

Patriotic Americans often stand before our nation's flag and "pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and [necessarily] to the REPUBLIC for which it [the flag] stands."

The problem with the Pledge in our day of a woefully dumbed-down citizenry is that we have essentially lost the idea of what our Republic is. When we ask the average flag-waving American what form of government our Founders gave us, he will usually say that they gave us a democracy.

If we ask them "What about our nation being a Republic?," they will typically say, "Oh, that too." Unfortunately, they cannot even tell the questionner what a Republic is.

Virtually every American has been taught in our public schools and in the media that the United States was framed as a democracy. But Benjamin Franklin, one of the more important Framers, specifically denied this—and most of our Framers were vociferously opposed to democracy. The important point here is that a republic is not a democracy. This fact is the original source of the historical friction between Democrats and Republicans. (Even Thomas Jefferson, who called himself a Democratic-Republican, would denounce today’s Democratic Party as decidedly anti-American.)

Most of the confusion stems from indoctrination in our schools and in the Dem-leaning media and centers on the matter of a self-governing Body Politic—which is what we do have. It turns out, Lopeover, that democracy is a form of government of self-rule by a voting populace, whereas a republic is a government ruled more peculiarly by public law.

It furthermore turns out that republics are philosophically despotic--i.e., ruled absolutely by law from the top down. For example, Plato’s ideal republic was headed by a benevolent despot, a philosopher-king. In our constitutional republic, however, our benevolent despot is a law-document, not a person. Our Constitution is the head of our Body Politic. Moreover, our Constitution obviously constitutes the United States of America. Our Constitution is the Bible-inspired human distillation of all of our national hopes, our liberty, and our overall security. In these ways, our Constitution is not merely our head, it is our entire Body Politic. Our benevolent despot gives us numerous rights, but since Constitutional law constitutes us, we have given ourselves these rights. For example, we get to chose human leaders to make and enforce our miscellaneous laws (only within very narrow Constitutional constraints)—which makes us a self-governing people—but, of course, only when those elected representatives can honestly swear absolute allegiance to our Constitution.

Many of today’s Democrats in Federal office have knowingly committed perjury in taking their oath of office. They are lawless, lying, anti-Creator swine—as I am sure you realize. Many Democratic Party voters are even worse in that they are also ignoramuses.

Our Democrat politicos resent our God-given Constitution (especially its precious Bill of Rights, it seems) and they undermine the Supreme Law of the Land at practically every opportunity. Having appetites for power, the opportunistic Dems cater to the baser instincts of a dumbed-down hoi polloi-- all for personal gain, not for the good of a civil society. They are dangerous elitists.

Our Framers warned us that democracies tend to install impressive/glamorous/unprincipled tyrants in leadership roles.

I will also submit that the ranks of our GOP establishment is swollen with dangerous elitists who care little for the Constitution. Their bizarre refusal to defend our Constitution as they had promised—i.e., swearing to defend it with every fiber of their being—along with justifying their dereliction on the grounds that real Constitutional vigor would be politically unpopular, makes these elitiwt career politicians in the GOP just ideological Democrats opportunistically masquerading as Republicans.

This is one of the terribly important reasons why I won’t support Trump. I do not see any clearly sincere Constitutional zeal in Trump. I think Trump is actually an unprincipled RINO who happens to have the support of many TEA Party populists (who have already given us a number of RINOs in public office, unfortunately).

***

I trust that you will see that my allegiance to the United States is specifically an allegiance to the Republic for which our beautiful flag stands. And I think one of most disturbing signs that our nation is right now headed for final self-destruction is that we have become unhinged from our Framers and Founders in innumerable ways. We need to have strong nationalism, which Trump certainly showcases, but that is nowhere near enough to save our country. The Constitutional head of our Republic is slowly dying, and I believe that our Body Politic will soon follow it in final socialistic totalitarianism.

(For that matter, I don’t even think Trump can beat Hillary. Her base of support is unshakeable and fanatical. I fear that the no-shows on the Republican side really would throw the election, including many races down the ticket, to the anti-American socialists.)

***

IN short, I agree that we need to vote in a way oF allegiancs to the United States. But our main problem, potentially lethal to our Republic, is the progressivism that is ignoring our Constitution. If we do not correct that problem, nationalism will not save us.

Worse still, populist movements can take us right over the cliff. I have known many flag-waving democrats who are complete fools. And we must not discount the possibility that some unnamed FReeper are, too.p>

[the_doc]

I gather from your post that you haven't figured out what was inherently dishonest in mkjessup's posted tally of election percentages highlighting non-Cruz votes.

Pardon me for laughing at your post, which clearly misses the important point that you belligerent devotees of Mr. Belligerence himself cannot honestly face: Trump is not a good candidate to put up against Hillary.

For whatever reason, Trump's unpopularity among even Republicans is the worst ever recorded. And Trump is not the Reaganesque kind of guy who can turn this around. Trump's competitive instinct is to double down on his nastiness when he is behind. That will seal his doom with those who already despise him.

You have accused me of being woefully naive. Well, back at you, as they say nowadays.