Posted on 04/07/2016 7:03:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An Associated Press-GfK Poll released Thursday finds Donald Trump’s “unfavorable” numbers are nearing 70 percent. The AP reports:
Seven in 10 people, including close to half of Republican voters, have an unfavorable view of Trump, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. It’s an opinion shared by majorities of men and women; young and old; conservatives, moderates and liberals; and whites, Hispanics and blacks — a devastatingly broad indictment of the billionaire businessman.
Even in the South, a region where Trump has won GOP primaries decisively, close to 70 percent view him unfavorably. And among whites without a college education, one of Trump’s most loyal voting blocs, 55 percent have a negative opinion.
It’s worth noting that none of the top candidates are above water in this poll. Ted Cruz is at 26-59 and Hillary Clinton is at 40-55. Still, Trump has the highest negatives and those numbers seem to have shifted some time in the last month:
As you can see, Trump’s unfavorable numbers have been hovering in the high 50s since last July. Again, that’s roughly where Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton are now. But the current poll shows a 13 point jump in the “very unfavorable” numbers as well as a 6 point drop in the total favorable numbers. Not surprisingly, the number of people who say they would not vote for Trump also jumped upward in this poll:
What’s not clear is why Trump’s unfavorable numbers are peaking at this moment. Yes, he had a bad week in the media but when hasn’t he had a bad week in the media? It seemed for months that none of his comments or Twitter attacks could damage him, but the poll suggests something has changed recently. Was it the attack on Ted Cruz’s wife that was a bridge too far? Was it his comments on abortion last week? Without knowing what it is that did the damage how can he try to recover?
Respondents to the AP poll even rated Ted Cruz more honest than Trump. Asked if the word “honest” described each candidate, 56 percent said it did not at all describe Trump compared to 36 percent who said the same for Cruz. Trump has taken to calling Cruz “Lyin’ Ted” in public appearances for the past several weeks.
The good news for Trump is that he appears to be crushing both of his rivals in New York, with a Monmouth poll this week showing him breaking 50 percent. A convincing win in his home state could help rally his supporters and maybe give him a chance to turn some of these unfavorable numbers around before the convention.
RE: This is why people are standing in line for 3 hours to vote for Trump in the primary: because they hate him so much....
Has it not occurred to you that perhaps, these are NOT the 70%?
Trump did not "attack" Cruz's wife. Media lie.
Trump threatened to "spill the beans." That is considerably different from attacking Mrs. Cruz.
Another media lie: It was the media who called the retweeted photo of Heidi Cruze "unflattering." There was nothing unflattering about that photo, and Trump wasn't saying anything negative about Heidi Cruz. Trump was simply saying that Trump finds his own wife more attractive than Heidi Cruz. As he should. Every husband should find their wife more attractive than another man's wife. Again, it was the MEDIA who labelled that photo as being "unflattering" to Heidi. Not Trump.
Best to avoid them, just stay on the calm side and try to enlighten discussion.
I just hope this ends before the convention.
Way before.
Happens every election. The vast majority of freepers realize that both Cruz and Trump are way ahead of any candidate in their ability to inspire conservatives (the former) and independents (the latter). Some conservatives are being unfairly attacked but not many and most will deal with it.
With his big mouth, Donald Trump has so caricatured himself as a misogynist that every time Trump attempts to "hang Hillary's albatrosses" around her neck he will succeed only in increasing his own negatives as an ungracious woman hater. Trump will play directly into Hillary's hands who has as her main claim to the White House the fact that she will be the first woman president.
No one is in a worse position to increase Hillary's negatives than Donald Trump despite his kerfuffle with Bill over extramarital affairs. That worked well in a Republican primary but will not work against 53% of the electorate who are women in the general election and who already entertain a profoundly negative image of Donald Trump
The gap for Donald Trump is just to big to close with wishful thinking on the part of his supporters.
I hope she comes back when sanity returns. That’s what I’m waiting for.
So sorry to hear about your mom. What was her user name?
Since like me you are not a woman you might want to talk with some actual women. The majority do not like Hillary. A solid minority like Trump. All they need to do is vote.
“One common thing we hear from Trump fans is how Reagan trailed Carter by 30% and had high negatives in 1980 as well. It was in January 1980 where Reagan was down by 30%. By April the race was even.”
Reagan polled in the low 30’s in April, May and June. The polls tightened when John Anderson was added as a third party candidate in March.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_polling_for_U.S._Presidential_elections
Add to that his lies. He keeps calling Ted a liar (which was a mess up by his staffer) and the blantant lies on him are ones that can be run on a thirty second add. He denied so many things that is on tape of him saying.
Anecdotal evidence is worthless.
Yes, I am aware of the danger of introducing references to the Nazis in a political discussion but "lyin Ted"?
Oh, you’re not a mathematician?
Then you’re probably not a logician either.
“But I will vote for him because I’m not voting for a fishing buddy. I’m voting for a leader to drag us out of the globalist, PC, third world hellhole that Obama has driven into. Sometimes, a nation needs a tough SOB to lead because we have too many pitiful little snowflakes running around who want a friend as president.”
Well said. I totally agree and I am sure many others do too.
Pretending that polls stay static from the Spring to the Fall in most election cycles.
You might want to do a study of that some day.
Here's some really good anecdotal advice:
If Ted Cruz had to handle one tenth of the negative advertising he would get in the general election (if he actually won the nomination) that Trump has taken already, he would buckle and be at 5% in the polls.
He will NOT be able to handle Hillary, or whoever they throw in there, maybe not even Bernie.
What are Hillary’s numbers?
Just as bad, I would guess.
And Trump would tear her apart in the General.
So, even as a Cruz supporter, I do not find these results indicating anything.
Medved and Erikson....
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