Posted on 05/10/2016 8:13:07 PM PDT by Mariner
A liberal friend is very concerned about the Republican Party. He tells me that Donald Trump will make it impossible for anybody anywhere running under the “R” column to win election. Even a dogcatcher in Podunk is doomed!
The New York Times shows a similar concern. Surely written with furrowed brow, its front page worries because “Sparring in GOP Rises” and because “Rift Grows Wide as Republicans Abandon Trump.” It joins two other concerned lefties, the Huffington Post and CNBC, in declaring that the GOP is “unraveling.”
All stand ready to help sponsor a dignified funeral, but that won’t be necessary. Their reports of the Republican Party’s death are premature. Very premature.
A new Quinnipiac poll tells the inconvenient truth. Trump and Hillary Clinton are tied in each of the three key swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.
The breakdown in Florida reveals how truly close the race is. As Politico puts it, Clinton has a 13-point advantage among women, 48 percent to 35 percent, while Trump’s lead among men is also 13 points, 49 percent to 36 percent. Each gets 39 percent of independent voters, while Trump wins big among whites, and Clinton wins big among nonwhites. The candidates have identical net negative approvals of minus 20 points, 37 percent to 57 percent.
With the poll showing Bernie Sanders doing better against Trump than Clinton (and Sanders winning the West Virginia primary on Tuesday), I myself am growing concerned about the “unraveling” of the Democratic Party!
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...and we voted Tea Party to get the RIGHT people in there...and they failed us. Trump is not necessarily conservative in all ways...but he is Anti-Left. Today, if you ran as an Anti-Left dog catcher, you would win on Trump’s coat tails.
So Clinton wins the symbolic vote in Nebraska yesterday?
Look for black voters to stay home in droves!
As a whaler, when I see those flappy blubber arms, I see pure profit.
Shilliary actually does well with the african american voters — its how she trounced Bernie in the south. And in the last few election cycles, married caucasian women vote republican almost as frequently as white males (no matter their marital status) do. Democrats do own the minority and single women’s votes though and at least in 2008, owned the youth vote, too.
My thought was that without a black person running, blacks are not going to make the effort to vote.
In CA some homo legislation was voted down because black people, notoriously anti-homo, came out in droves to vote for Barack and the homo legislation was on the ticket at the same time.
Even murder!? Trump should dump the S.S. security and hire an equal number of his own. Hillary has to have the goods on just one of the S.S. detail.
Something's rotten in the state of Denmark West Virginia.
Yes, they answer pollsters and we hang up on them...at least I do ...I never assume pollsters are not skewed.
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I’m 70 years old and have been voting since I was old enough at age 21 and I’ve never been polled.
Give a $100 contribution to your local representative. You'll be on every contribution and polling list there is.
Prop 208 in 2008 that banned gay marriages in CA — and it is absolutely true that the HUGE turnout by african americans materially contributed to that initiative passing.
Sure, for 2016, the african american vote MIGHT not be as large as it was for Hussein. One of the reasons the usual suspects are screaming about how racist Donnie-boy is — trying to fire up the minority voters.
“A liberal friend is very concerned about the Republican Party. He tells me that Donald Trump will make it impossible for anybody anywhere running under the “R” column to win election.”
So this “liberal” is concerned that Republicans might not win elections? Really? When a liberal tells me they think “X” policy will hurt Republican chances, I think we should double down on it.
“Rachael Maddow on MSNBC said the only Republicans concerned about Trump as GOP nominee are Republicans inside the beltway”
Broken clock analogy applies here.
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