Posted on 06/15/2016 3:15:31 PM PDT by Angels27
Donald Trump is viewed unfavorably by 7 in 10 Americans in a new national poll. Seventy percent of U.S. adults have an unfavorable view of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, according to the ABC News/Washington Post poll released Wednesday, a 10-point increase since last month.
That's his highest unfavorable rating since the launch of his presidential campaign and is close to Trump's highest-ever unfavorable rating in the poll, 71 percent, from May 2015. Since then it's hovered closer to 60 percent and had fallen toward the end of the GOP primary season.
Hillary Clinton is also viewed unfavorably by a majority of Americans, 55 percent, a new high in the poll for her. Forty-three percent view her favorably.
Those numbers come shortly after Clinton won enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Still, national polls asking voters whom they plan to support in November have shown Clinton pulling ahead.
Clinton has higher favorability among members of her party than Trump does among his in the ABC poll: 75 percent of Democrats view Clinton favorably, and 65 percent of Republicans view Trump favorably.
Independents, which both candidates are seeking to win over, are tepid on both: 68 percent hold unfavorable views of Trump, and 63 percent hold unfavorable views of Clinton.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
There is no law against the MSM making up a poll to twist public opinion. That’s what a lot of these are, I suspect.
It’s the Republicans’ constant criticism that hurts him. People tune out partisan Dem statements.
The GOPe is trying to save it’s RINOs by driving away as many Trump voters as they can. And they’ll end up without the Senate or the Presidency.
If you think the media is going to print or broadcast anything positive about Trump you’re kidding yourself. Nice to see after a bad poll or two some of you are already throwing in the towel. That’s why the left beats us constantly. The RINOs give up and so do a lot of so-called conservatives too.
Translation:
We’re push polling to try to get Trump to drop the subject that we have a marxist muslim America-hating faggot illegal alien as POTUS.
Part of this is non-stop MSM negativity. I googled the name ‘Donald Trump’ and got 20 stories all bitchy, whiny nasty dreck. Then I googled ‘Hillary Clinton’ and got 20 stories, all glowing fiction about her wonderfulness.
It’s worrisome but its still early in the game. It doesn’t help that all the republicans who pledged to support the primary winner are reneging on their promise. Also the mealy-mouthed slime from Ryan and his ilk doesn’t help. If the republicans don’t go all out and support their nominee, they will NEVER have another chance. They’ll lose half their membership and even then, it won’t matter because the democrats will import enough new voters so that a republican will never again hold national office. This is exactly what happened in California so as far fetched as it sounds, its a very real possibility.
In the end, I’m certain that turnout will turn the tide. Everybody hates Trump except for the voters who will turn out in greater numbers than for Clinton. Keep in mind that polls can’t measure this.
The entire Government is corrupt and the mass of Americans are so used to corruption that they cannot tell the difference. America is in great trouble and you can tell by the forces that are trying to ruin Trumps chances.
Trump for President.
I have been for Trump from the beginning of the debates. Unfortunately, the opposition can make a very brief video with a series of Trump's very few unfortunate statements, especially taken out of context. People watching this in practically a loop will never even know what he stands for. I am praying that he can break through the biased media.
It’s a poll of adults - 40% of whom won’t vote, another 10% are ineligible to register. Notice they didn’t publish any internals. The negatives probably rose among those who would never vote for Trump, but hadn’t been paying attention until recently.
Why poll favorability and not who voting for?
He’ll probably drop out by the end of the week. He’ll be so depressed to hear that news from abc/washington compost. My nephew pointed out to me that Trump has over 8 million followers on face book and hildabama has a little over 4 million. Don’t know if that counts towards Nov or not.
Internals? Mix?
Yes, all 10 of them.
With all the negatives Trump has, he somehow became the GOP nominee.
We’ll hear it: people hate him so much he can’t be President.
No one with negatives as high as Trump has ever been elected President.
We’ll see if that iron-clad rule holds up.
It’s a spike for her after she secured the nomination. She will get another after Bernie endorses her. This will go up and down.
I’m more concerned that she is damaging him with ads in important states, and he doesn’t have a great ground operation.
If I were Donald I’d break the bank and provide that ad money, because the RNC is NOT going to properly support him.
But Trump is down from a month ago in almost all the polls I have seen recently, so it isn’t one metric but everything taken together. Can he still win ? Of course. But not full blast on the way he was going.
Here are the internals:
http://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1144-57Clinton-TrumpFavorability.pdf
This is a left wing country. It is hard for me to accept. But it becomes clearer everyday. Texas and West Virginia may be only states that are not hard left. Trump has my vote but most Americans now want Weakness, want to blame men for acting like men and despise Judio-Christian values. I know many people who want to appeaseIslam. It’s scary.
The Stephanopoulos Bezos poll- who gives a rip - like they don’t have axes to grind!
It’s June, right?
5.56mm
Special Report
How Carter Beat Reagan
Washington Post admits polling was “in-kind contribution”; New York Times agenda polling.
By Jeffrey Lord – 9.25.12
Dick Morris is right.
Here’s something Dick Morris doesn’t mention. And he’s charitable.
Remember when Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980?
That’s right. Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980.
In a series of nine stories in 1980 on “Crucial States” — battleground states as they are known today — the New York Times repeatedly told readers then-President Carter was in a close and decidedly winnable race with the former California governor. And used polling data from the New York Times/CBS polls to back up its stories.
Four years later, it was the Washington Post that played the polling game — and when called out by Reagan campaign manager Ed Rollins a famous Post executive called his paper’s polling an “in-kind contribution to the Mondale campaign.” Mondale, of course, being then-President Reagan’s 1984 opponent and Carter’s vice president.
All of which will doubtless serve as a reminder of just how blatantly polling data is manipulated by liberal media — used essentially as a political weapon to support the liberal of the moment, whether Jimmy Carter in 1980, Walter Mondale in 1984 — or Barack Obama in 2012.
First the Times in 1980 and how it played the polling game.
The states involved, and the datelines for the stories:
· California — October 6, 1980
· Texas — October 8, 1980
· Pennsylvania — October 10, 1980
· Illinois — October 13, 1980
· Ohio — October 15, 1980
· New Jersey — October 16, 1980
· Florida — October 19, 1980
· New York — October 21, 1980
· Michigan — October 23, 1980
Of these nine only one was depicted as “likely” for Reagan: Reagan’s own California. A second — New Jersey — was presented as a state that “appears to support” Reagan.
The Times led their readers to believe that each of the remaining seven states were “close” — or the Times had Carter leading outright.
In every single case the Times was proven grossly wrong on election day. Reagan in fact carried every one of the nine states.
Here is how the Times played the game with the seven of the nine states in question.
• Texas: In a story datelined October 8 from Houston, the Times headlined:
Texas Looming as a Close Battle Between President and Reagan
The Reagan-Carter race in Texas, the paper claimed, had “suddenly tightened and now shapes up as a close, bruising battle to the finish.” The paper said “a New York Times/CBS News Poll, the second of seven in crucial big states, showing the Reagan-Carter race now a virtual dead heat despite a string of earlier polls on both sides that had shown the state leaning toward Mr. Reagan.”
The narrative? It was like the famous scene in the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy and her friends stare in astonishment as dog Toto pulls back the curtain in the wizard’s lair to reveal merely a man bellowing through a microphone. Causing the startled “wizard” caught in the act to frantically start yelling, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” In the case of the Times in its look at Texas in October of 1980 the paper dismissed “a string of earlier polls on both sides” that repeatedly showed Texas going for Reagan. Instead, the Times presented this data:
A survey of 1,050 registered voters, weighted to form a probable electorate, gave Mr. Carter 40 percent support, Mr. Reagan 39 percent, John. B. Anderson, the independent candidate, 3 percent, and 18 percent were undecided. The survey, conducted by telephone from Oct. 1 to Oct. 6, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
In other words, the race in Texas is close, assures the Times, with Carter actually in the lead.
What happened? Reagan beat Carter by over 13 points. It wasn’t even close to close.
http://spectator.org/articles/34732/how-carter-beat-reagan
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