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Poll: US Troops Prefer Donald Trump to Hillary by 2-1 Margin
Gateway Pundit ^ | May 9, 2016 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 05/10/2016 7:18:51 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Hillary and Barack Obama wait for the arrival of US victims of the Benghazi terrorist attacks. Hillary lied and said a YouTube video was behind the massacre.

Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton by a 2 to 1 margin in the latest Military Times poll. Trump also beats Socialist Bernie Sanders 51 to 38%. The Military Times reported:

In a new survey of American military personnel, Donald Trump emerged as active-duty service members’ preference to become the next U.S. president, topping Hillary Clinton by more than a 2-to-1 margin. However, in the latest Military Times election survey, more than one in five troops said they’d rather not vote in November if they have to choose between just those two candidates.

But given only those choices, 21 percent of the service members surveyed said they would abstain from voting.More than 54 percent of the 951 troops Military Times surveyed said they would vote for Trump, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, over Clinton, the Democratic front-runner. Only about 25 percent said they would vote for Clinton in that matchup.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; hillary2016; militaryvote; trump; trumpdod; trumpendorsement
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1 posted on 05/10/2016 7:18:51 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

2 to 1 is insufficient; should be 6 to 1.


2 posted on 05/10/2016 7:19:54 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Santorum 2016)
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To: COUNTrecount

Vote absentee guys.

Remember how the clinton regime sent ships out of port the day before the election?

Vote well in advance or have your franchise deployed away.


3 posted on 05/10/2016 7:22:04 AM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: COUNTrecount

Hillary loathes the military just like Obama does.


4 posted on 05/10/2016 7:23:49 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: Theodore R.

Troops are young, and many don’t vote because they’re deployed and it “tends to be a hassle.”

When I was in, there was always a big push to attempt to get the younger sailors to submit their ballots early and get the vote out. It doesn’t matter — you can harp about it every muster and every evening and every GQ drill post-brief, but outside of making it a liberty item? It’s like pulling teeth.


5 posted on 05/10/2016 7:24:23 AM PDT by Syncopated
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To: COUNTrecount

That being the case, either their votes won’t be counted or, due to a “gross oversight that’ll never happen again”, they won’t receive their absentee ballots...


6 posted on 05/10/2016 7:25:30 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: COUNTrecount

Who are the 33% that see Hillary as a viable option? Every single on should be briefed on Benghazi and impact of classified materials being put on personal servers.


7 posted on 05/10/2016 7:26:42 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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Really? 2 - 1 favoring Trump?

If a uniformed member gives a rats rectum about our nations defense, it should be 99 - 1. With that 1% being the homos and other deranged hanging out in the armed forces for political reasons.

Hillary is an untouchable felon, she’s proven she does not care about anyone in harms way, she does not care about classified information and she will do whatever it takes (legal or otherwise) to line her pockets.

She has the potential to do more harm to the nation that obama.

While I’m on my rant, if Trump gets the nomination, if any person claiming to care about our nation does not vote for Trump and Hillary gets elected, they deserve exactly what they get. They are no different than the RINO’s.


8 posted on 05/10/2016 7:27:19 AM PDT by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: Theodore R.

Agreed!


9 posted on 05/10/2016 7:28:29 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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That being the case, either their votes won’t be counted or, due to a “gross oversight that’ll never happen again”, they won’t receive their absentee ballots...
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or the plane with the absentee ballots didn’t land in time.


10 posted on 05/10/2016 7:30:30 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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I was the ‘voting officer’...very hard to get guys to register (long distance) and vote.


11 posted on 05/10/2016 7:30:45 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: COUNTrecount

Hillary Clinton lied to the face of the Benghazi families.

She will lie in the face of our military. She’s a crook, a liar, and a longtime opponent of the military.


12 posted on 05/10/2016 7:34:30 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: lacrew

Why can’t you order them.


13 posted on 05/10/2016 7:42:52 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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To: COUNTrecount

I can’t believe anyone who puts on the uniform would even consider voting for Hillary.


14 posted on 05/10/2016 7:51:14 AM PDT by bigbob
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You can’t order someone to exercise his/her rights as a citizen. Believe me, we’d have done it. The process of voting has to be independent and internally driven - you can’t make people care, or as somebody once said, “I can teach it to you. I can’t understand it for you.”

Colonel, USAFR (ret)


15 posted on 05/10/2016 8:02:11 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: COUNTrecount

Prolly by racial and ethnic lines


16 posted on 05/10/2016 8:03:01 AM PDT by wardaddy (ill buy the bodybags)
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To: COUNTrecount

She’ll kill your kids and lie to your face.


17 posted on 05/10/2016 8:15:22 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: ichabod1

“Why can’t you order them.”

Voting isn’t really related to the mission or military duties - for that reason alone, it would be a strange thing to order somebody to do.

Add to that - some idiot would start ordering soldiers to not only vote, but who to vote for, and the entire concept is a giant cluster.

Instead, as voting officer, I just made available to the soldiers a mechanism to vote, since most were away from home and unable to vote the traditional way. And I added in a little cheerleading. But I couldn’t ‘order’ them to vote.


18 posted on 05/10/2016 8:20:21 AM PDT by lacrew
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That being the case, either their votes won’t be counted or, due to a “gross oversight that’ll never happen again”, they won’t receive their absentee ballots...


19 posted on 05/10/2016 9:05:24 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Theodore R.

Agreed. My first reaction was - ONLY by 2-1???


20 posted on 05/10/2016 12:19:57 PM PDT by simpson96
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