Can Trump win a general election?

TD ^ | 03/15/2016 | Michael Coulter

[Boogieman]

“His voting results are vastly higher then the claims of “his ceiling” the Hate Trump Always people like to cite based on their polling.”

Not from what I’ve seen. When it was a multi-way race with a dozen candidates, his ceiling (according to polling) was around 33% and his results were around or below that level. When it thinned out into a 3-4 way race, his ceiling rose (along with other candidate’s) and he’s been hitting around 40-50% now.

If the race changes, the polling on that subject changes and the ceilings change. That’s how it goes.

[Leto]

Where was this analysis for Romney, McCain, Dole, etc?

Worthless GOPe turds.
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A lot of us had the same evaluation of them also. However none of them had the name recognition or off the charts negatives among the general population as you will see.

[MaxFlint]

The question then becomes will those Republicans who will eventually come around to supporting Trump reach the historical 93%? Just 80% or 85% won’t do for the general.

It's easy to say you're not going to support the nominee to some pollster when he isn't the nominee. Once there's a real candidate up against a really awful Democrat like Hillary there won't be any problem getting to 93%.

Trump's problem is beating the party insiders to win the nomination. Once he's got it almost every Republican will fall into line, just as they did for weak candidates like McCain and Romney. Add to that the new moderate and Democrat voters brought over by Trump's immigration and trade ideas and he wins in a landslide.