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Poll: Veterans Much Prefer Trump to Clinton
Morning Consult ^ | May 26, 2016 | Cameron Easley

Posted on 05/26/2016 10:17:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The news on Donald Trump and veterans hasn’t been very flattering this week, but recent Morning Consult surveys show that members of the military and their families largely back the presumptive GOP nominee in the race for the White House.

Almost half of veterans and voters who belong to veteran households (47 percent) picked Donald Trump as their presidential nominee in surveys taken from May 13 through May 24. Of the 1,668 military voters polled, only 38 percent support former Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. Fourteen percent of military voters remain undecided....

(Excerpt) Read more at morningconsult.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016polls; clinton; election2016; hillary; newyork; trump; veterans; veteransvote

1 posted on 05/26/2016 10:17:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

38% of the military support Crooked Benghazi Hillary? What has Obama done to our armed forces?


2 posted on 05/26/2016 10:19:24 PM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now there’s a shocker.... /s


3 posted on 05/26/2016 10:23:28 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: NYRepublican72

shouldn’t we be doing 60 percent with military or have times changed/


4 posted on 05/26/2016 10:23:47 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: NYRepublican72

shouldn’t we be doing 60 percent with military or have times changed/


5 posted on 05/26/2016 10:23:50 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: NYRepublican72

yeah, what the ###? she left americans to die and apologized for freedom of speech (the video).

sometimes i think this is all a sick joke and i’ve been dreaming for seven years.


6 posted on 05/26/2016 10:25:27 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

“shouldn’t we be doing 60 percent with military or have times changed/”

38% supporting Hillary is 62% supporting Trump.


7 posted on 05/26/2016 10:30:29 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: NYRepublican72
"What has Obama done to our armed forces?"

I don't think that it was obama, I think that it was the liberal takeover of our schools. obama hasn't really been there long enough, the demonazi educators have been in position at least a generation.

8 posted on 05/26/2016 10:36:50 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Kerry, Barry, and Cankles need to be hung by their heels, after trial and conviction for Treason!)
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To: NYRepublican72
38% of the military support Crooked Benghazi Hillary?

Veterans not people currently serving and that is about right.

The military is not made up of only staunch Republicans.

9 posted on 05/26/2016 10:40:44 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
The military is not made up of only staunch Republicans.

True. But anyone that took up a firearm in defense of this country should be smart enough to know what a terrible, despicable, anti-military person Hillary Clinton is. What she did to the families of the fallen in Benghazi is inexcusable --- lying to their faces. Disgraceful.

10 posted on 05/26/2016 10:57:02 PM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This doesn’t surprise me. Anyone aligned with conservative or traditional institutions will gravitate toward him.

Although ambivalent about Trump, I took one look at his opponents’ supporters & knew what side to take. No way in hell can these kind of people run a country, let alone defend it.


11 posted on 05/26/2016 11:09:07 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: NYRepublican72

The Bell Curve is skewed.


12 posted on 05/26/2016 11:11:40 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: NYRepublican72
You would be surprised at how many saw the military as a job rather then as serving their country and that is not even including those who were drafted or those who were given the option of enlisting or going to jail.
13 posted on 05/26/2016 11:16:34 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Like Sergeant Alvin York?


14 posted on 05/26/2016 11:30:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Fai Mao

14 percent undecided.


15 posted on 05/26/2016 11:37:09 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was thinking more like Bradley Manning, Weaselly, pardon me, Wesley Clark, LBJ or John Kerry.


16 posted on 05/26/2016 11:40:39 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: NYRepublican72

“...anyone that took up a firearm in defense of this country should be smart enough to know “ to not answer these surveys honestly


17 posted on 05/26/2016 11:42:35 PM PDT by stanne
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Clinton’s internal polling must be the same, as I see a ton of shills posting in various comment sections of web-sites attacking Trump because he did not pay taxes for a couple years in the 70’s, and the straw-man argument is that Trump does not support our troops or vets because he didn’t pay taxes, therefore is not a patriot

It’s a pretty lame attempt and a long reach, but for the past maybe 10 days, I’ve seen that argument being pitched (usually to no response, on an unrelated top to the pitch) only to be ignored, but then posted again a half hour or so later.

No one seems to be biting, but it just keeps popping up. Figured it must be paid agitators. These numbers substantiate the reason.


18 posted on 05/27/2016 2:29:25 AM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: Fai Mao; All

I gues the 38% never heard of Benghazi.


19 posted on 05/27/2016 6:25:43 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, 38% of the military are looking to protect the status quo.


20 posted on 05/27/2016 10:05:28 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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