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Trump would be least-popular major-party nominee in modern times
WaPo ^ | 03-31-2016 | Philip Rucker and Robert Costa

Posted on 03/31/2016 6:00:02 AM PDT by NRx

If Donald Trump secures the Republican presidential nomination, he would start the general election campaign as the least-popular candidate to represent either party in modern times.

Three-quarters of women view him unfavorably. So do nearly two-thirds of independents, 80 percent of young adults, 85 percent of Hispanics and nearly half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.

Those findings, tallied from Washington Post-ABC News polling, fuel Trump’s overall 67 percent unfavorable rating — making Trump more disliked than any major-party nominee in the 32 years the survey has been tracking candidates.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York; US: Texas
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To: McGruff

Ted Cruz is more popular when you sample everyone, not just Republican primary voters. Even among Republican primary voters, not-Trump is far more popular than Trump, but split its vote.

The willingness of FReepers to ignore polls is very odd. Absent a few outliers, polls are very accurate. They are telling us as scientifically as possible that Trump would lose in a landslide to Hillary if the vote were today. That doesn’t mean that result is guaranteed for November, but it means that it will be the result absent a recipe for Trump to become more popular among people who right now seem to have a very dim view of him.


61 posted on 03/31/2016 6:26:59 AM PDT by only1percent ( who)
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To: NRx

ALL ABOARD!!!

Get on board the Washington Pest Concern Troll Train!


62 posted on 03/31/2016 6:30:51 AM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: QuigleyDU

thanks you as it needs ot be said more and more after these lies by the establishment saying how cruz is the better option.


63 posted on 03/31/2016 6:30:53 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: NRx

All of it courtesy of the GOPe in the Chamber of Commerce.


64 posted on 03/31/2016 6:31:25 AM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016 (and 2020)!)
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To: ETL
Let’s face it, the guy is a totally obnoxious, arrogant, overly sensitive, spoiled brat, nasty/mean, emotionally and intellectually immature creep. And these are some of his better qualities.

Whyh wouild you say such things about Ted Cruz?

He's not THAT bad... LOL! :)

65 posted on 03/31/2016 6:33:25 AM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Donald Trump is broadly unpopular with national adults, more so than any other major candidate of either party. Over the past week (Feb. 26-March 3), Trump was seen favorably by 30% of the country, while twice as many U.S. adults saw the GOP front-runner unfavorably (63%).

66 posted on 03/31/2016 6:36:12 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: NRx

Oh, I believe The Trump is popular enough. Here we have another article that bounces off reality to land in the largest pile of fake articles written in modern history.


67 posted on 03/31/2016 6:36:26 AM PDT by inkfarmer
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To: LibFreeUSA
Yeah, let’s nominate Cruz so he can get his 25% vote nationally.

Hey, Ted won Idaho & Utah.

With his landslide victory in those two states in November, he could form his own Lichtenstein-like country: Cruzutahidaho.

And there's a "ho" in that country, too! :)

68 posted on 03/31/2016 6:37:16 AM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: NRx

All those arena filled rallies were fake then?


69 posted on 03/31/2016 6:39:48 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: HypatiaTaught

But ,but,there some differences in style and delivery.


70 posted on 03/31/2016 6:40:57 AM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: All

I haven’t seen this much self delusion among otherwise intelligent conservatives since the Christine O’Donnell fiasco back in 2010. A chapter of political history that many of us (for good reasons) would like to forget. There are just way too many people on here who seem to be floating down a river called de-nial.

If Trump is the nominee we are going to get buried in a once in a generation electoral shellacking.


71 posted on 03/31/2016 6:44:28 AM PDT by NRx (Ceterum censeo Trump delendum esse.)
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If the election were held today, who would be your first choice for President of the United States?

Who would be your first choice for Donald Trump's running mate?

Who would be your first choice for Donald Trump's running mate?


72 posted on 03/31/2016 6:46:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: AmericanCheeseFood

Pray to your Cruz god.


73 posted on 03/31/2016 6:51:12 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: AmericanCheeseFood

Feel good to agree with WaPo? LOL.


74 posted on 03/31/2016 6:52:44 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: NRx

Leave it to liberals to project what they fear the most. It is what they do.


75 posted on 03/31/2016 6:54:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: NRx

Yet another garbage poll by the Washington compost.


76 posted on 03/31/2016 6:55:26 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: mkjessup

I see your point.


77 posted on 03/31/2016 6:57:13 AM PDT by Brasky (You miss every shot you never take.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

You, above all, surprise me in your support for Trump, a guy who has hopped in bed with the person we, unlike most here, know and understand to be a serious threat to the US and its allies in the years to come. That is of course, KGB/FSB Putin. And please don’t say it’s only that he respects him as a strong leader, because it’s much more than that. He is in cahoots with Putin in his mission to restore Russia to a major competing superpower. At best, he’s dangerously/foolishly naive. At worst, an agent of sorts for the Russians.


78 posted on 03/31/2016 7:03:40 AM PDT by ETL (You can lead a Trump supporter to critical facts & info, but you can't make him/her think)
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To: mkjessup

You are as stupid as you are ignorant.


79 posted on 03/31/2016 7:07:22 AM PDT by ETL (You can lead a Trump supporter to critical facts & info, but you can't make him/her think)
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To: NRx
I think we are going to have to come up with someone else. I have been supporting Trump, but it is to late for a needed personality transplant and Cruz needs one too. It would be better if we went to a brokered convention and came up with some one else who would not be an open borders guy or an establishment backstabber, and would be acceptable to all wings of the party. I am thinking John Thune.
80 posted on 03/31/2016 7:07:34 AM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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