Why There Will Be No Trump Landslide in November

[cuky]

Why There Will Be No Trump Landslide in November

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432784/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-doormat-white-house

In New York, the most recent Siena poll has Clinton beating Trump, 57 percent to 34 percent. This is not a reflection of phenomenal popularity on her part; the survey finds 48 percent of registered voters in the Empire State feel favorable to her, and the same percentage feels unfavorable. But, the protestations of Root and other boosters aside, voters in Trump’s home state like him even less than Clinton; only 29 percent have a favorable view of him, compared with 59 percent who see him unfavorably. And what limited support Trump does get in New York doesn’t come from blue-collar voters, either: He does best among those who make more than $100,000 per year, and a full 64 percent of voters in that group still have an unfavorable opinion of him.

The outlook is equally grim across the river in New Jersey, where Trump’s Atlantic City casinos once made him a key employer. Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind survey, conducted last week, shows Clinton leading Trump 52 percent to 36 percent among registered voters in the Garden State. When asked to offer one word that describes Trump, New Jerseyans most commonly answered “arrogant,” “idiot,” “good,” “bad,” “obnoxious,” and “ass.”

In Michigan, the latest Marist poll has Clinton ahead of Trump, 52 percent to 36 percent. The exit poll from that state’s GOP primary found that 48 percent of its participants would be “dissatisfied” if Trump won the nomination, and 50 percent did not think Trump was “honest and trustworthy.”

Trump and Clinton have the lowest percentage of respondents who have no opinion of them — just about every potential voter already knows them, and just about every potential voter has a strong feeling about them one way or the other. The electorate dislikes and distrusts Trump much more than the average presidential contender. The most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found 30 percent of adults think favorably of Trump, and 67 percent think unfavorably

In January, Gallup found Trump to be the most unpopular political candidate they had ever recorded.

“Based on all of the data I have seen, the answer to the question, ‘Does Donald Trump have a path to victory in November?’ is clearly ‘No,’” Republican pollster Ed Goeas warned in a memo this weekend. “The question is, how many down-ballot Republicans will he take with him?”

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[libertybele]

I'm afraid the writing has been on the wall.  I have been of the opinion that Trump has never intended to become POTUS; his objective was to pave a path for Hillary by taking down the GOP.  He is succeeding.

[NavyCanDo]

I'm afraid the writing has been on the wall.  I have been of the opinion that Trump has never intended to become POTUS; his objective was to pave a path for Hillary by taking down the GOP.  He is succeeding.

That has always been my suspicion.   Why would Trump, one who  enjoys living the life of the rich and famous, the clubs, the yachts, the parties, TV appearances, want to take on having the Secret Service envelop him and watch his and his families every move for the rest of his life?   Of all the Presidents that would resent that the most, I could think of nobody more so than Trump.   

[Sanguine]

I'm afraid the writing has been on the wall.  I have been of the opinion that Trump has never intended to become POTUS; his objective was to pave a path for Hillary by taking down the GOP.  He is succeeding.

I think he may have started that way, but I've always maintained that his enormous ego won't let him play second fiddle to Hillary.  I think he really wants it now.

[Wingnut]

I think he may have started that way, but I've always maintained that his enormous ego won't let him play second fiddle to Hillary.  I think he really wants it now.

Like you I think he got into the race because he thought it was a good business move.  Always the huckster he figured it would be a way to expand his empire.   Now maybe old weasel dicks ego has him thinking not only he might win but he will win....at all costs.

Wonder how he plans to run his empire while he is running The Empire?

[Jazzhead]

Trump will cause the loss of the Presidency and the Senate.   With those losses, the path will be clear for President Clinton or Sanders to nominate the most liberal judiciary picks possible.   That development will in turn reverberate for the rest of my life,  and a good portion of my kids' lives too.   Trump,  in other words, is the herald for a permanent liberal hegemony.   

He must, quite obviously, be stopped by any means necessary.  There is no more patriotic act that any one of us can do than to crush Trumpism.