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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I sought out a photo of him wearing that hat.
And so this time, like the last time, he will give do his part to inflict Clinton on the rest of us the way he gave us obummer last time.
Getting your browbeating arguments into shape already, eh?
Could you add something about how effective the GOP landslides in 2010 and 2014 were at stopping Obama?
Or, perhaps something about GOP politics as usual being the only way to save the republic of the elite, for the elite, and by the elite?
I don’t vote for scumbags. I held my nose and voted Romney and have regretted it ever since. Obama still won the election and I dinged my pride. Never again.
There is no good choice between Cruz and Clinton. You’ll have to win that one without my help.
The way Romney betrayed Trump, who endorsed him, shows us he is not a good person.
That is a very good point!
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