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Poll: Hefty Slice Of Virginia’s GOP Will Bolt If Trump Is Nominee [Trump "Hindenburg"]
Washington Post ^ | April 7, 2016 | Laura Vozzella

Posted on 04/07/2016 2:38:31 PM PDT by Steelfish

Poll: Hefty Slice Of Virginia’s GOP Will Bolt If Trump Is Nominee

By Laura Vozzella April 7

RICHMOND — Nearly a third of Virginia Republicans will vote for Hillary Clinton, pick a third-party candidate or sit out the election if Donald Trump is the GOP’s nominee for president, a new poll finds.

Democrats in the key swing state are far less likely to defect if Clinton is the nominee, with just 9 percent saying they would vote for someone else or stay home on Election Day, according to a Christopher Newport University survey released Thursday.

Trump’s “loyalty gap,” as CNU researchers dubbed it, could cost the celebrity developer the race in Virginia, where the survey finds the former secretary of state leads Trump 44 percent to 35 percent.

The poll, conducted CNU’s Wason Center for Public Policy, comes just two days after Republicans and Democrats alike expressed dissatisfaction with their parties’ respective front runners by handing Wisconsin primary victories to Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Bernie Sanders.

The CNU poll was designed to see how that intraparty angst would play out in Virginia if Trump and Clinton ultimately face off in the general election.

“We found a real loyalty gap,” Quentin Kidd, director of the Wason Center, said in a written statement. “If Donald Trump turns out to be the Republican nominee, it’s clear that a very significant proportion of Republican voters will either defect or stay home. But it looks like most Democrats — even those who backed Bernie Sanders in the March primary — would support Clinton.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; cruz; traitors; trump; va2016
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1 posted on 04/07/2016 2:38:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

A hefty slice of GOP RINOs are nothing but traitors!!


2 posted on 04/07/2016 2:39:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Steelfish

If stories like this are true, I don’t understand why the WP and the rest of the Left aren’t encouraging a Trump candidacy at every opportunity.


3 posted on 04/07/2016 2:40:09 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steelfish

Sucks to be the stupid party.


4 posted on 04/07/2016 2:40:17 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: Steelfish

Would that be the Northern beltway GOPe?


5 posted on 04/07/2016 2:40:22 PM PDT by Justice
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To: Steelfish

They want to see the corrupt status quo remain in Washington. Plain and simple as that. With Hillary it will remain the same.


6 posted on 04/07/2016 2:40:39 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Steelfish

True Republicans/Conservatives will not do that.


7 posted on 04/07/2016 2:40:55 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Steelfish

Those in the NoVa region who depend on the government teat.


8 posted on 04/07/2016 2:40:56 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Steelfish

The GOP is a suicide pact, it seems.


9 posted on 04/07/2016 2:41:09 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Steelfish
BS. Anyone that would believe this shi! is mentally ill. Try again, stupid.
10 posted on 04/07/2016 2:41:15 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Steely Tom

If the media thought for one minute how bad Trump is then they would be promoting him like they did to Romney and McCain, and now cruz.


11 posted on 04/07/2016 2:41:37 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Steelfish

Right... That’s the new talking point I guess. How many Republicans will bolt if the GOP favorite is the nominee.

Guess how many bolt if Trump is not the nominee?

Why don’t you ask how many Democrats will bolt if Hillary is the nominee. Or how many Democrats will bolt if Sander’s is the nominee.

Some of them may not like Trump, but when it comes to Trump vs Hillary, they will vote Trump.


12 posted on 04/07/2016 2:41:40 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DonaldC
True Republicans/Conservatives will not do that.

There aren't really as many of those as I once presumed.

13 posted on 04/07/2016 2:42:04 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Steelfish

only a MORON would vote for hillary or bernie to begin with...

cut off nose to spite face

S T U P I D

one term of either woud finish the country off
with the cooperation fo the rinos

the country needs an American in the WHITE HOUSE ..
we’ve had 8 years of a traitor


14 posted on 04/07/2016 2:42:16 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Steelfish

And what fraction will bolt if Trump is NOT the nominee?

The GOPe is spreading lies again, to discourage voters.

GOPe is in bed with the Democrats for a Hillary presidency.

See:

Tech billionaires (major Dem donors) plot with GOP leaders at exclusive island resort to stop Trump

http://nypost.com/2016/03/08/tech-billionaires-plot-with-gop-leaders-to-stop-trump-at-exclusive-island-resort/


15 posted on 04/07/2016 2:42:22 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Jim Robinson

They see their gravy train coming to an end and they would lose their job, thus have to move and get a real job.


16 posted on 04/07/2016 2:42:30 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Jim Robinson; All

The untold story is the number of Democrats who will not vote for Hillary if she is the nominee, but are saying they will support Trump instead in such an eventuality.

Trump will lose the RINOs and gain the anti-establishment vote from each party, including the Unions and independents.


17 posted on 04/07/2016 2:42:36 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Steelfish

40% will bolt if Cruz and his GOPe buddies get their way.

I would support a Trump 3rd parry very soon.


18 posted on 04/07/2016 2:43:07 PM PDT by dforest (Ted took your money and is laughing all the way to Goldman Sachs)
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To: Steelfish

Apparently, they polled Republicans with government jobs only.


19 posted on 04/07/2016 2:43:31 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Ted Cruz polls great with young females, or is it he likes young females on a pole....I get confused)
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To: Steelfish

But when many of the rank-and-file stayed home because the nominee was Romney, those ‘purists’ got blamed for the Romney loss and were hammered one way or another for the next several years.

But all those jerks have nothing to say when the Establishment sellouts threaten to ‘bolt’ if Donald J. gets the nomination.

GOPe is also the GOPh, as in Republican hypocrites.


20 posted on 04/07/2016 2:44:01 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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