Posted on 02/25/2017 2:48:21 PM PST by WonkyTonky
The poll found that more NRA supporters voted for Trump in 2016 than for Mitt Romney in 2012. This meant 208,000 additional votes for Trump in North Carolina, which he won by 173,000 votes. In Ohio, he got 479,000 more votes from NRA backers and he won Ohio by 447,000. In Pennsylvania, Trump received 421,000 additional votes and won by 44,000.
A second group was tested in June 2016: the 19 percent of voters in the battleground states who viewed both candidates unfavorably. The poll found that 60 percent of them supported the NRA. Moreover, it found that most were "very willing to believe" that Clinton was corrupt and hypocritical. And it found that "most women" polled were conservative and liked the Second Amendment.
There was a third test. The post-election survey found that 3 percent of 2016 voters in battleground states said they hadn't voted in 2012. And 79 percent of them were supporters of the NRA. "This means 784,000 NRA supporters in battleground states did not vote in 2012 but did vote in 2016," the pollster said.
This is neither definitive nor conclusive evidence the NRA elected Trump. But it certainly suggests that the NRA ads played a critical role. And it's the best case I've heard for crediting anyone with tipping the election to Trump. Absent the NRA, I think we know how Trump would have fared. He'd have lost.
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Ya think?
BS.
Trump didn’t win because of NRA ads.
Trump won because he’s TRUMP and Hillary is a thoroughly dislikable bitch.
Why people need to keep shuffling the cards and coming up with theories to explain it away is beyond me. Maybe it makes their sore butts feel better.
Just a little payback to the Beast for campaigning that she was going to shut down the NRA.
So did Ferguson, Baltimore, Occupy, San Berdo; Pulse, Paris... Police shootings, drug infestation... and the Team Obama deplorable wrong sided response to lawlessness.
It’s 0bama’s fault for being Gun Salesman of the Year for 9 years running.
“Just a little payback to the Beast for campaigning that she was going to shut down the NRA.”
Stupid woman. Stupid woman. Stupid!
Stupid woman. Stupid woman. Stupid!
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“I know, I’ll attack the NRA! Everybody I know hates them!”
I agree, the pro gun & pro Constitution folks put Trump over the top but I didn’t realize it was so close looking at those numbers.
If the election were held today Trump would win in a major landslide.
Trump beat the odds in a way that will take years to understand.
The witch didn’t even bother campaigning since she had every facet of influence that could be bought in her corner.
I bet if you counted all the free publicity she got her total valve of advertisement was worth 15-20 times what Trump spent.
It feels good to actually have an advocate for the working class and small business owners in the White House.
MAGA
One would think that they would have learned by now. This is a lesson that I am willing to teach them on every election.
Well, duh! The NRA certainly wasn’t going to support Hillary or the Bern-out. Both of them declared themselves enemies of the Second Amendment early on.
“It feels good to actually have an advocate for the working class and small business owners in the White House.
MAGA”.
Oh boy do I agree with you. Now we have a much better chance of making the businesses profitabe and keeping them profitable.
I would also like to find out how many NRA members voted for Hillary.
“If you did vote for Hillary and if you are an NRA member, just what in the h3ll were you thinking of?”
Hillary wanted our guns.
America said no.
Kind of simple.
Does a poll show that something is true or that people think it’s true?
More NRA voters went for Trump than for Romney. Romney could not be trusted to not put the 2nd Amendment in an obscure museum in Nome.
The funny thing is Trump didn’t beat the odds... the odds makers didn’t understand/refused to see what was going on.
Odds were in Trump’s favor from the start.
The access Hollywood tape was the ONLY reason the election wound up close. Without that tape Trump gets NH, MN, NV without any question and probably all of ME as well to say the least. Hell if the election were just a few days later he would have likely taken all of those. Without that tape he would have taken states no one would have believed.
The odds were with Trump the entire time, the political press Which the odd makers based their odds on were never able or willing to tell the truth.
Hillary was always the longer shot in the 2016 election
Yes, the Hillary wanted to pretend that she wasn’t anti-2nd amendment.
If the GOP had run another one of their typical moderate losers, she would have won.
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