Posted on 12/15/2015 12:18:50 PM PST by GonzoII
So dominant is Hillary Clinton's polling in the presidential primaries, notes the press critic Howard Kurtz, that the media have essentially stopped paying attention to the Democratic race at all. The logic, for a media organization, is simple: Why lavish limited resources on a fait accompli? The Democrats, after all, have spoken. They are fully ready for (or perhaps fully resigned to) Hillary.
That's certainly not the case on the Republican side, where, we are told (ad nauseam), that the race is still "wide open." With "no clear frontrunner" on the GOP side, the contrast between the Republican and Democratic contests could not be clearer. It will be Hillary representing the Dems, and it could be just about anybody (well, maybe not anybody) who ends up leading the ticket for the GOP.
Yet are the races really all that different?
According to the two latest national polls, conducted as the furor over Trump's call for a temporary moratorium on Muslim migration reached a fever pitch, the real estate magnate leads the Republican field by either 23 or 27 points. Tuesday's Washington Post/ABC News poll has Trump with more than double the support of the second place finisher, Ted Cruz. Indeed, Trump's lead over his primary opponents is larger than both Ronald Reagan's was in the 1980 race, and George H. W Bush's was in the 1988 contest.
The latest national polls of the Democrats, meanwhile, show Secretary Clinton leading Bernie Sanders by a mere 20 or 19 points. And her support appears to be plateauing, while Trump's numbers are surging. All of which is to say, on a national level, Trump is clearly in a stronger position than Clinton is.
Looking at the crucial first two states, Clinton does appear stronger in Iowa than Trump. According to the latest polling averages, Trump is up by only one point in Iowa, whereas Clinton leads Sanders by more than 15. But Trump is in much better shape in New Hampshire. He's up by 16 points in the Granite State, while Clinton is clinging to a tenuous five point lead.
So, does this mean that Trump is a shoo-in for the Republican nomination? Hardly. He has a fight on his hands (good thing he's in such great shape) – but then again, by the same standard, Secretary Clinton does too. The media should behave accordingly.
They “should” but they “won’t”
According to http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hits-high-gop-race-clinton-outsider-experience/story?id=35764718 (published today):
"Trump slightly trails Hillary Clinton in a general election matchup, by 6 percentage points among registered voters, expanding to 13 points among all adults."
LOLOL....
Just to see the liberals crying alone would be loverly...!!!
Kind of sad, people know to look for a God, but impostors take advantage of people’s fallen hatred for God and gin up figures like this who tell them they are fine either without having to change anything, or by changing things but to the worse.
But the “experts” on TV keep saying national polls don’t mean anything. Like those voters don’t vote in various state primaries.
Trump will whip Hillary''s
Also, the partisan divisions are that poll are 33-23-34 percent, Democrats-Republicans-independents. Who are the missing 10%?
No. Check out this chart ( http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html ), which shows Hillary beating Trump.
Trump loses agains Hillary.
Cruz, on the other hand, is more likely to beat Hillary:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_cruz_vs_clinton-4034.html
Or just blindly root for Trump. Whatever.
Hillary at heart (unless she chooses to accept a change from God, always something theoretically possible from our point of view) is a bitter witch.
Donald is the bull in the china shop who will knock you down and then say I really didn’t mean that, here will this make it better?
It’s easier to love Donald.
I cannot comprehend why voters would want a mentally confused, inept, pathological liar such as Hillary for POTUS. Especially, with the chaos created by Obama, we need a strong leader. Not a nerdy, pathetic figure who wants more Muslim immigrant to this country.
Sigh, another example of cherry pickin’
Typical media bias - 2 parties with similar numbers. Yet one is a shoe in (weird phrase, isn’t it?) while the other isn’t.
Hubby keeps laughing after every Trump interview-the media are ADDICTED to him. They can’t stop talking about him. They want to, they want to quit giving him free air time, yet they can’t stop themselves. I imagine before a broadcast, they are telling each other ‘this will be the last time, really it will...”
awesome!
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