Trump’s bad week was thanks largely to Republicans, not Democrats

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Trump’s bad week was thanks largely to Republicans, not Democrats
By Philip Bump August 5 at 5:07 PM

Eternally endearing themselves to people who spend a lot of time looking at polls, CNN and its partner ORC surveyed before, between and after the two parties' conventions last month.

Before both conventions, Hillary Clinton had a 7-point lead. She got support from 89 percent of Democrats, while Donald Trump got 93 percent of the vote from Republicans. Independents were the difference-maker, backing Clinton by 10 points.

Between the conventions, Trump took a 3-point lead (this was after the GOP convention, which came first). He got 90 percent of the vote from Republicans to Clinton's 88 percent from Democrats, but independents flipped to back Trump by 13 points.

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If you look at that by party, the difference is more stark. In McClatchy's poll, 67 percent of Democrats who back Clinton do so because they support her. Fifty-two percent of Republicans who back Trump do so because they oppose Clinton. In CNN's poll, a slight majority of Republicans who back Trump do so because they support him, 51 percent to the 46 percent who oppose Clinton. But nearly 7 in 10 Democrats who back Clinton do so out of support for her.

Only Trump's base voters like Trump.  Other Republicans who support him do so out of opposition to Hillary.  That's called "lack of enthusiasm" and it's usually the death knell of a campaign.