Posted on 04/02/2016 3:48:28 PM PDT by Steelfish
Donald Trump Is Now The Least Popular American Politician In Three Decades
By David Lauter
For months, as Donald Trump lurched from controversy to controversy, commentators marveled that his voters remained loyal: Trump is impervious to political attack, some said. Not so. Trump wasn't immune; analysts were just failing to look at the whole board.
While Trump’s polarizing campaign did not dent his standing with core supporters in the Republican primaries, it took a punishing toll on how the rest of the electorate views him. Trump’s image, which was poor even before he ran for president, has plunged to an unequaled low. Among scores of major political figures measured in polls over the last 30 years, Trump’s numbers are the worst.
If Trump were to win the GOP presidential nomination with his current public image, he would be the most unpopular nominee in the history of U.S. opinion surveys, veteran Democratic pollster Peter Hart said in an email.
“By a lot,” he added.
The share of Americans with an unfavorable view of Trump is extraordinary: 68% in the most recent Bloomberg poll, 67% in the CNN/ORC survey, 67% in the ABC/Washington Post poll, 65% from Gallup. The 57% unfavorable rating he received in the most recent CBS/New York Times survey looks mild by comparison.
Comparable numbers are difficult to find, particularly over a sustained period. Even during the worst of the Vietnam War, for example, only 38% of Americans in Gallup polls gave an unfavorable rating to President Lyndon B. Johnson, although all public figures and institutions received more favorable rankings in that era.
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He still has more votes than blobfish.
With both Hillary and Bernie beating Trump in spades, and before conservatives get a shellacking in the general election that plunges this nation into oblivion, Trump now needs to suspend his campaign and unify behind Cruz whom Rush has rightly called the true and tested conservative in this race and may lay legitimate claim to Reagan’s mantle. Time to put country first!
Trump got thrashed in Utah, the reddest of red states, and by all accounts if Trump is the nominee Utah may be lost to Hillary.
Establishment astroturf...
You’re not too popular yourself...
Are you high?
Really. Can we do a poll on his popularity
And who cares about Utah?
The Mormon vote is nothing
Why go after the Mormon vote when you can go after the blue collar vote in Michigan, Ohio, New York, PA, New Jersey?
How come he has more votes already than any current or former GOP candidate?
He also will decimate the Hildebeast.
Go Donald J Trump!
OH NO
yea.. cruz... because hillary won’t push his eligibility to the courts
and you can bet, the guy born in canada, who hadn’t set foot in the US until he was 4, will be found to be ineligible.
Trump is so unpopular 20,000 to 35,000 show up for his rallies and he’s leading in all the polls and has twice as many delegates and number two. Yes it just sucks to be The Donald. :-)
I am not voting for Trump because I think he is a cool guy to have a beer with
I am voting for Trump because I believe he could turn this country around and point us back in the right direction
I am not even expecting him to be some sort of “super president” and fix everything, that is impossible
But if he can build the wall, curb illegal immigration, make smarter and better trade deals and kill ISIS he would be the best president of my lifetime
Abortion, gays, etc are just secondary, they just don’t matter if we don’t have a country
And the 'bell curvers' call Trump supporters 'low information' voters.. Rush is a lazy idiot.
Dear God - there was massive cheating going on in Utah, and cite this as proof that Trump can’t win the nomination? You are one crazy person - and dumber than a box of rocks. Who got shellacked in Florida? Hmmmmm? I can’t believe how dumb you are. I just can’t.
Trump is not going to be the nominee. The Republicans aren’t going to let the “GOPe” haters blow up the party, even if they have to forfeit the Presidential race.
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