Polls may actually underestimate Trump's support, study finds

[puppetmaster]

No and a thousand times no. Everything was fine for Rand till this imbecile showed up. The GOP gets rid of Chump then Rabd supporters can show up and vote for him as a delegate.

The other thing as bad as the other guys are they are not nearly as bad as Chump. They don't support universal health care not they want to use nuclear bombs.

but they don't win against hillary.....so the bitch is for universal health care and to stupid to oppose the war machine.

 

[hells_unicorn]

but they don't win against hillary.....so the bitch is for universal health care and to stupid to oppose the war machine.

Trump doesn't win against Hillary, so who the fuck cares?

 

[r3volution 3.0]

but they don't win against hillary.....so the bitch is for universal health care and to stupid to oppose the war machine.

Clinton is a monstrous, criminal, socialist.

Trump is a monstrous, criminal, insane, socialist.

So, if the choice is Clinton or Trump, I choose Clinton; she's marginally less likely to have a twitter-battle with Putin escalate to nuclear war.

 

[statist slayer]

I guess I would vote for Trump over Clinton, only because he isn't capable of accomplishing anything -- he would be like a Jesse Ventura or Arnold Schwarzenegger. Pretty sure he's all bluff and bluster.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

I guess I would vote for Trump over Clinton, only because he isn't capable of accomplishing anything -- he would be like a Jesse Ventura or Arnold Schwarzenegger. Pretty sure he's all bluff and bluster.

Launching a nuclear war does not require an act of Congress.

...it's effectively an executive order, to obtain and press the button on the nuclear football.

Now, one would hope that the top generals/admirals would stifle an insane President Trump, but one never knows.

...I suppose the silver lining of a Trump Presidency is that we might have a military coup.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Granted I don't hang out among the sheep, but I don't know a single person who supports Donald Trump. Not one. Is it just me?

Almost everyone I know or run into supports Trump to a certain extent (except for the Democrats, of course). And it's not just white males, so forget that stereotype. They are Fox News people, but low information, and buy into the false left/right, DEM/GOP, CNN/FOX teams. Generally, they don't know a lot of the details. They know what Rush, Hannity or O'Really tell them. These people like what Trump says for the most part, but take it all with a grain of salt. "He's tough. He slams the media." They will say, yeah, he's not perfect, and they will list their second choices.

It's funny who their second or third choices are. Usually it's Cruz, Fiorina or Rubio. They think those are the "anti-establishment" candidates. The media is good at manipulation.

 

[statist slayer]

Launching a nuclear war does not require an act of Congress.

...it's effectively an executive order, to obtain and press the button on the nuclear football.

Now, one would hope that the top generals/admirals would stifle an insane President Trump, but one never knows.

...I suppose the silver lining of a Trump Presidency is that we might have a military coup.

I don't think Trump is insane on an apocalyptic level. More like insane like a fox.

The main danger of a Trump presidency is that he would bypass Congress even more than Obama and Bush due to his complete disrespect of divided government, and with the virtually inevitable Democratic demographic tidal wave, this would provide the next liberal president a precedent to sweep aside any residual conservative resistance in Congress or the Supreme Court.

 

[hells_unicorn]

I don't think Trump is insane on an apocalyptic level. More like insane like a fox.

The main danger of a Trump presidency is that he would bypass Congress even more than Obama and Bush due to his complete disrespect of divided government, and with the virtually inevitable Democratic demographic tidal wave, this would provide the next liberal president a precedent to sweep aside any residual conservative resistance in Congress or the Supreme Court.

In either case, the entire country is screwed, and the moronic weekend Paleo-Cons that have been swallowing his B.S. will likely be the most directly hurt by the result of his ascension. I feel positively NO REMORSE for being as rough and as combative with some of Trump's Paleo-Con supporters as I have been of late. I sympathize with their complaints, but they are in such an utter case of shell-shock from the onslaught of PC culture that they can't think straight and are gravitating to the first brazen opportunist that panders to them, even though it's clear as day that he's lying to them.

 

[statist slayer]

In either case, the entire country is screwed, and the moronic weekend Paleo-Cons that have been swallowing his B.S. will likely be the most directly hurt by the result of his ascension. I feel positively NO REMORSE for being as rough and as combative with some of Trump's Paleo-Con supporters as I have been of late. I sympathize with their complaints, but they are in such an utter case of shell-shock from the onslaught of PC culture that they can't think straight and are gravitating to the first brazen opportunist that panders to them, even though it's clear as day that he's lying to them.

Hear, hear! I've gotten back to roughing up Trumpkins on Breitbart.

 

[Philmanoman]

When people actually make it into the booth they wont be picking trump.
Arent voters pretty fickle?
Or...the ones being polled wont even show up at the booth.
I bet his will be the case for at least half of trumps support.

 

[thoughtomator]

I know someone who hasn't had a political thought in his brain probably in his whole life who spontaneously texted me two days ago to tell me he was voting for Trump.

I hadn't the heart to remind him his prior felony from 20 years ago means he's not eligible to vote.

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

I know someone who hasn't had a political thought in his brain probably in his whole life who spontaneously texted me two days ago to tell me he was voting for Trump.

I hadn't the heart to remind him his prior felony from 20 years ago means he's not eligible to vote.

You might as well tell him that and then continue on to say that Rand Paul is the only one who wants to give back voting rights to (non-violent) felons.

 

[Ronin Truth]

If I were a Trump supporter, I'd lie to the pollsters, just to mess with them.

 

[fcreature]

If anything, this is just one more reason polling is a horrible way to base anything off of during an election cycle.

Donald Trump supporters are typically on the lower tier of the education scale (not surprisingly) and are moderate/liberal. They're not going to show up to vote in these caucus's. It's not gunna happen. My biggest hope is that the results are so vastly different come Iowa than the polls have been that they're completely discredited.

It's quite ironic that his demographic is the very definition of the low information voter that the conservative talk radio media is always talking about, yet they've been supporting him all along.

 

[randomname]

Trump won't reach 20% in Iowa on February 1. He will place third or fourth.

If he doesnt win IA nor NH, will he even win a single primary?

 

[Ronin Truth]

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.' The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. -- H L Mencken, Baltimore Sun (26 July 1920)

 

[Todd]

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.' The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. -- H L Mencken, Baltimore Sun (26 July 1920)

This^ + Scary......