Posted on 08/18/2016 2:32:53 PM PDT by drewh
A new Pew Center survey shows Donald Trump down 4 points nationally to Hillary Clinton, which counts as good news for a candidate who’s further behind in most recent surveys.
But beyond that topline number, the poll contained one important thematic question that offers a glimpse of what a winning Trump effort might look like. It shows that Trump voters overwhelmingly have the view that life in America has gotten worse for "people like you" over the past 50 years and that a clear majority of Americans overall agree with this pessimistic assessment.
Pew Center Clinton’s campaign message has been considerably more upbeat than this. And it would be very difficult for her to pivot to a downbeat message. Her supporters, for starters, have a sunnier view of things. And young people and African Americans, two groups that she really needs to make sure turn out to vote in November, see the glass as half full.
Beyond that, Clinton is running as a kind of de facto successor to both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, so it’s inherently challenging for her to argue that the United States has been poorly governed under their guidance.
And yet most people — including pretty overwhelming margins of white people and people without college degrees — see life as having gotten worse over the past 50 years.
Over the past month, Trump has manifested far too many flaws to really be in a position to take advantage of any kind of potentially promising campaign themes. But the kind of nostalgia politics he offers in his more coherent moments has a large constituency, and Clinton is very poorly situated to cater to it in any way.
Matthew Yglesias is an extreme leftist.
As the election draws closer, the MSM anti-Trump gang has to dial back a little on their lies if they wish to have any credibility at all.
@danaperino - The Dems start with 242 electoral college votes to win. They need 270. Even I can do that math - it isn’t hard.
@danaperino - Romney was not going to win in spite of the “rigged polls” - and I vowed that night that I would NEVER EVER fall for that again
Trump must make up for the damn cheating on the democratic side...If he can beat that...
See above: Trump up 6 in another poll with likely voters and good D/R splits.
Best way to win is
Ignore all media
Get Out The Vote
You assume that they are going to keep all of their States-they won’t.
Dana is a solid Bushie. She hates Trump
Best way to win
Ignore all media
Get Out The Vote
You can’t expect to be blessed if you vote for the nation to be ruled by Jezabel.
What better way to stick it to those anti-American bastards in the media than to vote for Trump...
“A new Pew Center survey shows Donald Trump down 4 points”
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If I could vote a 100 times I would...Hillary’s Supreme Court picks scare the hell out of me!!!
FR today seems to be infested with some real idiots, and panicked prisses.
To bad these people spend more time here telling everyone what they ought to do than actually get out there and do something themselves.
True that
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