[nathanbedford]

The new Marquette poll finds his favorability rating at 22 percent, compared with a 70 percent unfavorability rating. That is … bad? No. It would be an insult to the quiet dignity of the word “bad” to call that spread bad. A 22–70 favorability spread is in the mid- to high “holy shits.” Sure, that number includes all voters, not just Republicans. But if Trump has a 22 percent overall favorability and 30 percent of the Republican vote, that means there aren’t a whole lot of Republican primary voters out there for him to sway.

The author concedes that this stratospheric unfavorability ratio cannot necessarily be exported to the other forty-nine states but it gives us a baseline and it suggests a trend. I do not think Trump will get 1237 delegate votes going into the convention and I think he will try to buy delegate votes by cutting "deals" just to he bought politicians throughout his career.

If he buys enough delegates to get the nomination, his unfavorability ratings tell us that he will be slaughtered in the general election. There simply aren't enough white male voters to compensate for these daunting unfavorability ratios. Donald Trump is the most hated of all modern potential presidential candidates. When he goes down in the general election, he will take senators, representatives, conservatism and the country down with him. Hillary will nominate three or four leftist Justices who will finish us off in those areas that the Democrats themselves don't get around to.

The military will be virtually extinguished, the debt will strangle the economy, our enemies will attack from without and from with in. All of this for a misguided infatuation with a reality television, beauty contestant entrepreneur, a prize fighting promoter, a titty bar owner, a bankrupt gambling casino magnate, a grifter of vulnerable students and nutrition minded suckers, a brutal landlord, a deceiver of customers, a bully, a misogynist, a serial liar, a mountebank and a man thoroughly unworthy of the highest office in the world.

[Lakeshark]

A man who once had principles of intellectual honesty ought to know that Reagan's numbers against Carter in the polls of Spring 1980 were even worse than Trump's are now.

Aren't you glad we didn't listen in 1980 to that line?

I sure am.

Anyone who looks at today's polls concerning a November election and claims they show ANYTHING at all valid knows little about history.

Just ask Carter how his second term went.......

[blueplum]

you forget the stark fact that Cruz cannot beat Hillary - not now, not tomorrow, not next year. And he’d get slaughtered up against Birdy Bernie. Can you imagine, after a 3 day absence, Cruz tweeting against Hillary - mental eval - release! as he did to Trump? Hillary eats lawyers for lunch.

[ImNotLying]

bump for future reference

[ScottinVA]

Very well said.

[outofsalt]

What you Said!

[odawg]

You have turned out to be the most unhinged, mindless Trump hater on this site, and that is quite an accomplishment.

[TheRake]

Very well thought out, excellent response. A rarity here on FR. Your flame retardant suit is in the mail.

[catfish1957]

The military will be virtually extinguished, the debt will strangle the economy, our enemies will attack from without and from with in. All of this for a misguided infatuation with a reality television, beauty contestant entrepreneur, a prize fighting promoter, a titty bar owner, a bankrupt gambling casino magnate, a grifter of vulnerable students and nutrition minded suckers, a brutal landlord, a deceiver of customers, a bully, a misogynist, a serial liar, a mountebank and a man thoroughly unworthy of the highest office in the world.

Maybe the best 15 second read in the past 6 months here. Bears repeating.

[Gadsden1st]

If you are right, so be it. Burn this sucker down and start over!

[Stentor]

When he goes down in the general election, he will take senators, representatives, conservatism and the country down with him. Hillary will nominate three or four leftist Justices who will finish us off in those areas that the Democrats themselves don't get around to.

Well deserved.

[napscoordinator]

So you want to do the same thing we’ve been doing for over 70 years? Look at the mess we are in with politicians running the joint. Let’s try something different. Trump is successful. His ideas on making America great are risky but worth it for a dying nation. Cruz will be more the same. You think lobbyists die with Cruz? No way! Lobbyists will be in the unemployment line with trump because he can’t be bought since he has not taken any money...Cruz has and will owe a lot as president.

[Pelham]

Chicken Little rides again.

[sargon]

That Marquette poll is garbage. 471 respondents with a margin of error of 5.8%?

Contrast that with the Optimus Wisconsin poll that had 6000 respondents, a MOE of 1.14%, and has Donald Trump up 29-25 on Cruz, well outside the MOE.

It's probably close to a tossup, but you're deliberately citing the the most whimsical, wishful, slanted polls in order to suggest how terrible things are for Donald Trump.

It's all just so transparent.

Which candidate you support is your business, but you're acting as nothing more than a clumsy propagandist.

Everybody knows what you're doing and you're not changing any minds, at least not in the direction you hope.

As a matter of fact, your disingenuous pretense of objectivity, combined with your constant and slanted derogation of the GOP frontrunner, is probably driving more people to support Donald Trump than to withdraw their support from him.

Your slavering Trump-hating posts really are the most fragrant steaming bullsh!t I've ever experienced...

[SomeCallMeTim]

Donald Trump is the most hated of all modern potential presidential candidates. When he goes down in the general election, he will take senators, representatives, conservatism and the country down with him. Hillary will nominate three or four leftist Justices who will finish us off in those areas that the Democrats themselves don't get around to.

This is what I always hated about you Nathan... you're refusal to take a stand on any issue. /s

[Comment Not Approved]

Always looked forward to your posts ... until recently when your TDS has become unbearable.

I think you have lived abroad too long, and no longer recognize how corrupt our political system has become, and the fact that only a real outsider has any chance at changing things.

You can’t reform a corrupt system by electing someone who is a member of that system. Electing another Harvard lawyer won’t change a damn thing. Especially one who is married to a NAU proponent and has the establishment backing him.

Just MNSHO.