Posted on 04/02/2016 9:20:46 PM PDT by Steelfish
Electoral Map Is a Reality Check to Donald Trump’s Bid By JONATHAN MARTIN and NATE COHN APRIL 2, 2016
Donald J. Trump is so negatively viewed, polls suggest, that he could turn otherwise safe Republican states into tight contests. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times
Donald J. Trump’s presidential candidacy has stunned the Republican Party. But if he survives a late revolt by his rivals and other leaders to become the party’s standard-bearer in the general election, the electoral map now coming into view is positively forbidding.
In recent head-to-head polls with one Democrat whom Mr. Trump may face in the fall, Hillary Clinton, he trails in every key state, including Florida and Ohio, despite her soaring unpopularity ratings with swing voters.
In Democratic-leaning states across the Rust Belt, which Mr. Trump has vowed to return to the Republican column for the first time in nearly 30 years, his deficit is even worse: Mrs. Clinton leads him by double digits in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Trump is so negatively viewed, polls suggest, that he could turn otherwise safe Republican states, usually political afterthoughts because of their strong conservative tilt, into tight contests. In Utah, his deep unpopularity with Mormon voters suggests that a state that has gone Republican every election for a half-century could wind up in play. Republicans there pointed to a much-discussed Deseret News poll last month, showing Mrs. Clinton with a narrow lead over Mr. Trump, to argue that the state would be difficult for him.
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In the movie “Bridge Over The River Kwai,” Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson played by Sir Alec Guinness upon seeing the cables to blow up the bridge during low tide, realizes the impending disaster and exclaims “Oh God, What Have I Done”! as he falls on the plunger.
If Clinton, the worst the Rats can ever offer is now seen as beating Trump even in the reddest of red states- Utah, Trump supporters must ask themselves “Oh God What Have We Produced”?
This is such BS. Carter was beating Reagan by 20 points BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY RAN AGAINST EACH OTHER.
More propaganda.
GOO will never win another WhiteHouse based on that map.
Are you talking about the tiny Liechtensteinian-like country of Cruzutahidaho?
Yep...more NYSlimes propaganda.
Polls show....unnamed sources....some are saying....
FAIL!!!
Even in Utah? Oh no!!
In the home of moronism?
Former Cruzer here. Now all I care about is supporting the eventual Republican Nominee. Cruz or Trump are OK with me.
Just one question.
If Cruz can’t beat Trump in the Primary, how can he beat Hillary in the General?
In a couple more decades due to growing non-white demographics the only GOP candidates that might win the presidency will be complete RINOs like Kasich.
1980 USA no longer exists. The white voters who switched to Reagan aren’t here anymore. Reagan won California. Structurally impossible today. Conversely, Romney would have won the presidency in a landslide with 1980 demographics.
Its a reality check to how the GOPe can attempt to deatroy itself with GOPe PAC money because it has reached the levelnof out of touch that you would expect Ann and Mitt Romney to be.
This, coming from that rag known as the new york times.
The DC establishment is scared shitless of Trump, and this is just another of many more articles to come of the DC establishment projecting their worst fears; that Trump actually wins, and they lose control.
If this were true, why are the commie lib, Clinton supporters so worried about it? They should be rejoicing. Their Snowflake Queen has got it in the bag.
If Hillary, the baby-killing carpet muncher, is elected, the American People (the idiots among them) will have called down the judgment of God upon themselves. The United States of America will not exist once Hillary and her Muslim masters are finished.
And any poll taken using "Likely Voters" is COMPLETELY missing the mark this time out. Most of Trump's blood-loyal followers are people who either usually don't vote, or who usually don't vote for the GOP.
No poll of "Likely Republican Voters" will even reach out to 60% of his enormous base.
For instance, the polls say that this Tuesday, Trump will lose Wisconsin by 10. I say he wins by 10, a difference of 20%.
Let's see, shall we?
The Media needs to publish this $h!t so when diebold vote counting machines choose hildabutt, nobody will question the vote totals.....like last time when Hussain “won”.
Please explain for us why Cruz lost the states he was supposed to win?
Why don’t you also explain why Trump leads Cruz by 273 delegates so far?
This must be Cruzbot Common Core logic in action.
Cruz will destroy Clinton. and it will probably be quick
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