Quote (bogie160 @ 15 Mar 2016 23:29)

Rubio is a just a schemer who tried to climb too high.

Trump has created a credible discussion on the future of the party. The GOP needed to escape the Evangelical trap. I'll forgive his other inadequacies.

Quote (Pollster @ Mar 15 2016 03:23pm)

Essentially her rating is -12 and it's been there for the last 6 months. There's no comparison between that and -30 though, as polarization has increased to make everyone some form of unpopular. You also have to figure in the advertising climate: less than 1% of the Republican advertising budget pre-March was spent attacking Trump, the entire Republican apparatus has been attacking Clinton (both during this cycle, and for 25 years) while boosting Sanders), and 15 candidates lobbing attacks at Clinton while only 3 Democratic candidates returned fire at Trump. Add it up and he's 2-3x more unpopular than she is without the first Democratic ad to air or the oppo file even being opened.

I have no doubt that some Sanders supporters will refuse to donate/vote in November, but there won't be widespread sit-outs. You can see that measured in two places, the percent of people who are satisfied with both Clinton and Sanders, and the people who prefer Clinton to Trump. The latter is what's really astounding: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/14/poll-millennials-clinton-sanders-trump-president/81612520/

Quote (Pollster @ Mar 15 2016 02:23pm)

Essentially her rating is -12 and it's been there for the last 6 months. There's no comparison between that and -30 though, as polarization has increased to make everyone some form of unpopular. You also have to figure in the advertising climate: less than 1% of the Republican advertising budget pre-March was spent attacking Trump, the entire Republican apparatus has been attacking Clinton (both during this cycle, and for 25 years) while boosting Sanders), and 15 candidates lobbing attacks at Clinton while only 3 Democratic candidates returned fire at Trump. Add it up and he's 2-3x more unpopular than she is without the first Democratic ad to air or the oppo file even being opened.

I have no doubt that some Sanders supporters will refuse to donate/vote in November, but there won't be widespread sit-outs. You can see that measured in two places, the percent of people who are satisfied with both Clinton and Sanders, and the people who prefer Clinton to Trump. The latter is what's really astounding: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/14/poll-millennials-clinton-sanders-trump-president/81612520/



Those are bigger than Obama-Romney numbers. The 18-29s are not going to allow someone with Donald Trump's rhetoric get on the ballot and then not turn out to vote against him. They're even choosing to not vote in our primary just to vote against him right now.

As far as re: Trump and how his popularity has changed, he may have become more popular in YouGov's survey because their online-only (or mostly) methodology is one where I'd imagine he would clean up in, but you can tell the link above that in the overall picture the last 6 weeks haven't been kind to him -- he went from around -19% at the end of January to around -29% now. There will be an upswing if he indeed wins the Republican nomination because all presumptive nominees see their numbers improve at least a little bit, but he's among the least-popular presumptive nominees in modern political history, maybe the most-unpopular.

Quote (EndlessSky @ Mar 16 2016 04:55am)

What. the. actual. F.

1 7 2 6 v o t e l e a d

http://www.decisiondeskhq.com/results/2016/primary/gop/president/missouri/

52 more delegates in the pocket.

Quote (Skinned @ Mar 16 2016 07:22am)

So many Trump and Cruz supporters in this state!

We know where the first FEMA camps are going.

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Mar 16 2016 06:25am)

...apparently there was a substantial number of Democrats who voted Kasich yesterday here in Ohio . The question remains if it was pro Johnny K or anti Trump .

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Mar 16 2016 05:25am)

...apparently there was a substantial number of Democrats who voted Kasich yesterday here in Ohio . The question remains if it was pro Johnny K or anti Trump .

Quote (GamingOn @ Mar 16 2016 08:38am)

Hopefully those Democrats decide Trump is better then Hillary the law breaker or Bernie the commy.
I don't think there is as much anti-Trump as you people seem to think. There should be more anti-noactiontakers
because America is a place of action and due to recent administration short comings we are being seen as weak.
The nation would only continue to be seen as week with Hillary or Bernie which is why Trump is promised to win
the White House.

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Mar 16 2016 06:42am)

...then explain to me why over 60% of Republicans are not supporting Trump nationwide or why 30% of Ohio Republicans polled yesterday said they will not vote for Trump if he gets the nomination .