Posted on 04/10/2016 8:52:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Of all the arguments against Donald Trump, the softest has been his poor prospects for victory in the general election. True, he has consistently polled worse against Hillary Clinton than have Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and virtually every other person who ran. But polls change. And if Trump were to win the Republican nomination, it would be such an earthquake that the political order might be transformed. Clinton, moreover, has huge vulnerabilities. She lacks many basic political skills, and she is a hostage to fortune—in both the usual way, as the heir to an incumbent president, and in the unusual one of being the subject of an FBI investigation.
Yet the electability argument against Trump is hardening, fast. He has a 67 percent unfavorable rating (per the Washington Post/ABC News poll), which would be the highest ever recorded for a major-party nominee, and a net favorable rating of minus-39 among white women and minus-31 among independents. Trump's numbers aren't just bad; they're the stuff of nightmares.
When you add up all of the data, there are four reasons to suspect Trump's chances in the general election are incredibly slim.
(1) The appeal of Trump was supposed to be that he would expand the electorate by bringing home white voters who didn't turn out for Mitt Romney in 2012. Looking at Trump's numbers among whites, it's not clear how he could do that—his favorability numbers are underwater not just among whites generally, but even among non-college-educated whites (where he's minus-7) and white men (minus-4).
But the Trump-wins-by-turning-out-white-Republicans theory breaks down fatally when you look at where Trump is with every other group. In order to claw his way into the poor position he's in with white voters, Trump has cheesed off every other demographic group: He's minus-53 with self-described moderates;
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The “guy who has broad support” just lost another whole state: Indiana.
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Loyalty to a party is nonsense, but loyalty to the Nation is what will do Trump in in the end if he tries any turd party shenanigans.
Its the voters that sunk Trump in Wisconsin, not any party.
Pray for character.
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TPA is not a trade deal, it is the authority to control the trade deals that President Cruz will be using to our great advantage next year, and the Dems won’t be able to block it.
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You were talking to everyone. You may not be aware of this, but when you post on this thread, everyone can see it. Everyone. So when you are on a public political forum, and you publicly refer to something as pseudo-conservative, you should expect that someone would point out the obvious parallel to Donald Trump.
The entire movie? Bless you!
Love your grade school logic.
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And man I believe it
Rock on
These trade deals are what has lost millions of American jobs. I live in a manufacturing state and have seen many factories close and left empty or turned into apartments. The heart of the establishment is using the government to give them unfair advantages in business including the exploitation of cheap foreign labor. Anyone who supports the oligarchy is not a conservative.
Factories have been gone for 40 years or more
I believe people who believe in Mormonism be treated with respect and dignity. How do you feel they should be treated?
Totally unrelated but an ode the UKs venerable Sea King.
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Like they believe in a false religious cult that masquerades as Christianity, in other words, with pity and compassion.
Do you hate all people who are not like you, or just some people who are not like you?
I'm commanded to love my enemies.
Speaking of which, theologically and spiritually speaking, what is the difference between Mormons and Moslems ?
The Koran is written in Arabic while the Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price are written in English.
In the 1970’s I worked in a factory.
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