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.”
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40% will bolt if Cruz and his GOPe buddies get their way
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I looked at this “poll” and the question about thow many would bolt if Ted Cruz’s got the nomination was not asked. I wonder why. The Post ran a story with asking what the number would be for Cruz. The media is so dishonest.
The story smell like shi’ite..
Vichy Republicans..
Trump won Virginia. The state had many candidates to choose from at the time of the primary. I call BS on this poll.
Washington Post with more hot garbage.
Things that make you say hmmm.
Hasn’t been a southern state in some time.
We don’t vote for liberals and we don’t like lawyers.Trump or forget about it.
Gang of eight.please don’t forget.
Trump beat his ass by 1 million votes because florida hates Rubio.Thats the reason he has not kept his seat in the senate.You’re not paying attention.
LOL, nice art work.
Creepy pilot, like Ted, and the plane is pure, GOPe, TPP.
I’m not giving my vote to Cruz. No way.
I will stay home just like I did for McCain and should have done for Romney.
>> Nearly a third of Virginia Republicans will vote for Hillary Clinton,
Leftwing bullshit promulgated by benighted ideologues.
A hefty bunch will split if Trump does not get the nomination, too. GOPe has made a mess of things.
“Those in the NoVa region who depend on the government teat.”
We lived in that area in the mid 1960’s to early 1970’S.
If you worked for in a non government job, your neighbors and others often treated you like an evil person.
I’m sure that it is even worse, now!
If Trump gets the nomination I will vote for him, just like I held my nose and voted for Romney in 2012 and McCain in 2008. I wish I could find some reason to believe that Trump is more conservative than Romney or McCain, but I cannot. Regardless, Trump is without question far preferable to the left-wing Democrat alternatives. I honestly do not know how our Republic can survive four more years of Democrat rule.
The #NeverTrump and #OnlyTrump rhetoric is going to do us in.
Here on FR, we have a constant barrage of Trump supporters saying that they will never vote for Cruz and Cruz supporters saying that they will never vote for Trump. We are going to have to figure out some way to unite behind whoever wins the nomination, whether it is Trump or Cruz, or all we can look forward to is at least 4 years of President Hillary.
Such a position in this election is beyond comprehension.
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