Posted on 04/25/2016 8:58:42 AM PDT by LS
The 2016 presidential election is on the top of most Americans’ minds, according to the latest George Washington University Battleground Poll. Despite, or perhaps because of, the high level of engagement, voters have negative views of almost all major candidates, and report the tone of the race is wearing on them.
The bipartisan GW Battleground Poll, conducted in partnership with The Tarrance Group and Lake Research Partners, asked likely voters how closely they’ve followed the presidential campaign over the last year. Eighty-nine percent reported they’ve followed the race either “very” or “somewhat” closely. More than half (52 percent) of respondents reported receiving updates on the campaigns via social media.
The GW poll found that of the five candidates still in the race for the highest office, only two—Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Ohio governor John Kasich—have an unfavorable rating below 50 percent, at 44 and 29, respectively. The other three—former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (56 percent), Texas Senator Ted Cruz (55 percent) and businessman Donald Trump (65 percent)—are all mostly disliked.
All the candidates with unfavorable ratings above 50 percent also have a majority of voters saying that they would not consider voting for them for president. When asked about increasingly visible former President Bill Clinton, respondents showed more positive views toward the non-candidate, with 54 percent favorable and 41 percent unfavorable toward him.
In a head-to-head matchup of each party’s frontrunner, Mrs. Clinton leads Mr. Trump by only 3 percentage points nationally (46 to 43; 11 percent undecided). Comparatively, Mr. Sanders fares slightly better against Mr. Trump (51/40/10).
The tone includes the attacks by GOPe and media.
Let’s be honest here and identify who started the smears and viciousness - Romney.
What does MOE mean ?
How can this be true! The media keeps telling us the ONLY one able to beat Hillary is Kasich.
F U MSM!
After Indiana, if Trump wins, In two weeks Trump will be beating Hillary.
MOE=Margin of Error
Margin of Error
Margin of Error (MOE) is 3.1 %. Undecided are 11%.
Mrs. Clinton leads Mr. Trump by only 3 percentage points nationally
ANd when Mr Trump is officially the Candidate, Hillary will be begging to be Indicted.
Sorry, yes. Undecided. Even better.
Sorry, It’s “Margin of Error,” but MOE is 3% and UNDECIDEDS are 11%. I’ll fix.
Here’s some good news: I grew up in New York city and know a lot of libs, a lot of far left ones. One of them I met over the weekend and incredibly he said he is voting for Trump!! This is a guy that voted for Obama twice, use to worship at the altar of Hitlerys cankles. I couldn’t believe it, I thought he was kidding but he wasn’t, said he is fed up with Hitlery “She is full of s**t , I’m fed up with the lying” which is his exact words, said Sanders seems too confused, but above all else he said he is supporting Trump because he said the country needs an outsider because both parties are too corrupt. Very good sign because this guy is VERY leftist! I think Trump is going to absolutely obliterate Hitlery
Lol!
Okay. Now I’ve been schooled...
Negatives on Trump are likely to stay high until he formally wraps up the nomination. Once he becomes the clear alternative to the coughing and hacking Hildebeast, we will see those favorability numbers start to move more in Trump's favor.
Still, it's way too soon to get a good grasp of the general election. First things first, let's get Trump nominated and put this nasty business of Cruz/Kasich in the rear view mirror.
I think tomorrow night's results in RI, CT, PA, DE and MD will put an exclamation point on Trump's inevitability. If Trump then wins IN a week later, he is on a glide path to the nomination and I believe we will see Cruz drop out as his funding will dry up quickly.
On the contrary, leftists voting Trump is a very bad sign.
People need to show this to Kasickness to get him to STFU. It’s what he’s basing his whole campaign on... Old cooked polls.
I would wager that if the election was held tomorrow that Trump would beat Hillary. The reason being is that the turnout for a change in the direction of our Country will be record breaking. The voters are pissed. Turnout will always determine elections and you can start to get a glimpse of things to come by studying the response to the primary voting for each party and the massive crowds that both Sanders and Trump are consistently attracting from coast to coast.
They give the media and opposition something to talk about, but that is about it.
If, for example, Trump were so unpopular, why would he be drawing 10s of thousands to rallies?
Same with Sanders.
Congress still has about 9% unfavorable and they continue to get reelected.
>>On the contrary, leftists voting Trump is a very bad sign.
Maybe they aren’t Leftists. The Democrat party includes working class union members, old FDR Dems, single issue voters who ignore everything else, as well as the card carrying communists and overeducated Progressives (the last two are certainly Leftists).
Trump is appealing to the rest of those Democrats. You can call them Leftists, but we used to call them Reagan Democrats a few decades ago.
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