Less than half — 45 percent — of Republican voters say they are satisfied with Donald Trump as their party's presidential nominee, according to the latest results from an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Monday. Another 52 percent said they would have preferred someone else as the GOP standard bearer, while the levels of satisfaction are reversed among Democratic voters, 52 percent of which said they are satisfied with Hillary Clinton as their party's nominee in November...
Among conservative Republicans, 53 percent said they would have preferred a candidate other than Trump, while 45 percent of that group said they are fine with the Manhattan real-estate mogul as the nominee. Moderate Republicans split at 49 percent each, while 58 percent of Republicans who have a high-school education or less said they are satisfied. Sixty percent with a college degree said they would like someone else...
...yet only a minority think that the convention should replace him with someone who is both conservative and sane.
...yet only a minority think that the convention should replace him with someone who is both conservative and sane.
Replacing him would be suicide... but it would also make for very entertaining television so why not? Go for it, I say! We're stuck with President Hillary either way so why settle for a simple train wreck when you can have a train wreck with a marching band and fireworks?:lol:...yet only a minority think that the convention should replace him with someone who is both conservative and sane.
...yet only a minority think that the convention should replace him with someone who is both conservative and sane.
The irony here is that they don't want Trump but they voted for Trump. Could be buyer's remorse?
If the voters vote one way or another it is the job of the party to respect that. If the people decide after the fact they don't like the person they voted for then it sucks to be them.
Yeah, except it's not really unprecedented. The modern primary system only really went into effect in 1968; before then, it was routine for top party members to pick the candidate.He won the primary elections. Changing the rules in a practically unprecedented fashion in order to invalidate all of those elections would be absolutely horrendous.
You're assuming that the primaries are democratic in the first place -- or that Trump wouldn't try to change the rules if it suited him. While it's more democratic than party elites picking someone, it's also pretty thoroughly compromised by now, and has resulted in a profoundly unpopular candidate who just might kill the Republican ticket all the way down the line.As much as I despise a Trump nomination, he won fair and square in the process that was set forth. However little chance there is that I'd ever vote for Trump, there'd be even less that I'd vote for someone nominated in such an unscrupulous and despicable fashion.
Trump got about 45% of the vote, when all was said and done.
So, basically, he's managed to keep the portion of the GOP base who supported him in the primary.... and that's about it.
He still got more votes than any other candidate by far. Way to take responsibility for nominating a wanker. Make excuses. LOL. :mrgreen:
Hey now! I didn't nominate this moron. I voted for Rubio.
But yeah. Way too many ambitious politicians kinda screwed us, there.
I also voted for Rubio, I have a very very very hard time voting for Trump and likely won't. I think Hillary is more despicable and disgusting so I'll likely vote 3rd party in protest of the current nominees.
You and me both. Currently I'm voting for Kenniston of the Veterans Party. I wanted to pull for Austin Petersen, but Gary Johnson picked up the Libertarian Nomination by telling the party he'd bring them legitimacy.... and then went to a CNN townhall with Weld and told America they thought Obama had done a solid job as President, and Hillary was both a wonderful person and highly qualified to be President. Oh, and that you had a positive right to Abortion. :doh
I honestly fear bat**** crazy liberals running the country more over a Trump presidency
America cannot afford that (especially with the open SCOTUS).
Where I live my vote doesn't matter so much, so I'm confident in voting 3rd party. If I lived in a swing state I'd likely reconsider and try to weigh the lesser of two very large evils.
Hey now! I didn't nominate this moron. I voted for Rubio.
But yeah. Way too many ambitious politicians kinda screwed us, there.
If the voters vote one way or another it is the job of the party to respect that. If the people decide after the fact they don't like the person they voted for then it sucks to be them.
Trump is the horse they put into the race. No viable option remains now but to run that sucker. Win or lose.
I thought it was the parties job to promote the political will and positions of the members...
The irony here is that they don't want Trump but they voted for Trump. Could be buyer's remorse?
He won the primary elections. Changing the rules in a practically unprecedented fashion in order to invalidate all of those elections would be absolutely horrendous. As much as I despise a Trump nomination, he won fair and square in the process that was set forth. However little chance there is that I'd ever vote for Trump, there'd be even less that I'd vote for someone nominated in such an unscrupulous and despicable fashion.
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