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...Last week, Rasmussen Reports gave voters the option of staying home on Election Day if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the big party nominees, and six percent (6%) said that’s what they intend to do for now. Clinton and Trump were tied with 38% support each; 16% said they would vote for some other candidate, and two percent (2%) were undecided. But Trump edges slightly ahead if the stay-at-home option is removed.
While this provides a good morale boost, it's too early to call.
Good luck with your morale boost. Rasmussen is the only poll, out of seven, that puts Trump ahead of her, just as it was the only national poll that failed to call the 2012 election for Obama.
Polls like this are useless at this point.
Oh wow, methinks someone is either bitter or paranoid.
Stop taking their polls away from them.
After Trump systematically dismantled the candidates they support it's the only thing they have left.
Don't you remember these same people telling you, back before elections started being held, that Trump was a sideshow, a laughing stock, he was only doing it for attention, that it would never go anywhere, that he would drop out after New Hampshire, After Super Tuesday, after, after, after...
But Trump set his sights on winning Republican Primaries in each succeeding state and he's done pretty well for himself.
His strategy, and his tactics, haven't yet addressed the Democratic challenger because Trump is a guy who sets his sites on the target that in in front of him and currently poses the greatest threat, the 25M target, as they say.
Clinton has been polling really well up to this point because Trump hasn't yet shifted fire on to her and when he does there is no doubt that he is going to systematically dismantle her just as he has the Republicans.
So let them enjoy their stupid polls for a little while longer.
It's really all they've got.
I'd like to see a poll in which this question was asked:
Which candidate would you vote for, one who had a private email server with classified information on it which was never shown to have been illegal and which was never shown to have hacked, or
A candidate who refers to his wife as a "nice piece of ass", who would date his daughter, believes women have to be pretty to be taken seriously, and wants to secure the border by building a wall reminiscent of the DMZ?
Those are your only choices. Pick A or B.
Stop taking their polls away from them.
After Trump systematically dismantled the candidates they support it's the only thing they have left.
Don't you remember these same people telling you, back before elections started being held, that Trump was a sideshow, a laughing stock, he was only doing it for attention, that it would never go anywhere, that he would drop out after New Hampshire, After Super Tuesday, after, after, after...
But Trump set his sights on winning Republican Primaries in each succeeding state and he's done pretty well for himself.
His strategy, and his tactics, haven't yet addressed the Democratic challenger because Trump is a guy who sets his sites on the target that in in front of him and currently poses the greatest threat, the 25M target, as they say.
Clinton has been polling really well up to this point because Trump hasn't yet shifted fire on to her and when he does there is no doubt that he is going to systematically dismantle her just as he has the Republicans.
I'd like to see a poll in which this question was asked:
Which candidate would you vote for, one who had a private email server with classified information on it which was never shown to have been illegal and which was never shown to have hacked, or
Polls like this are useless at this point.
I'd like to see a poll in which this question was asked:
Which candidate would you vote for, one who had a private email server with classified information on it which was never shown to have been illegal and which was never shown to have hacked, or
A candidate who refers to his wife as a "nice piece of ass", who would date his daughter, believes women have to be pretty to be taken seriously, and wants to secure the border by building a wall reminiscent of the DMZ?
Those are your only choices. Pick A or B.
:roll: Trump hasn't systematically dismantled anyone. The media fell in love with the controversy and gave him a $2 Billion advantage over his opposition, only bringing them on to ask them about Trump. Then his opponents (idiotically) spent all their time and energy fighting each other (assuming, as you point out, that eventually he would say something so stupid or crass that even his base would refuse to support it), meaning that he faced no headwinds until he was already firmly established in the lead. Those conditions aren't going to exist in the General, where Trump is going to have a billion dollars dumped on him, as he faces a single major competitor willing to focus all her time, energy, attention, and allies in the media to the task of using his own words to tear him apart in ads like this.
Trump fans will think that's ineffective, because it doesn't sway them. But it's not aimed at them, it's aimed at the majority of GE voters who are repelled by that sort of thing.
Trump is already the most disliked candidate to run for POTUS, ever, and that's not likely to get much better.
'Fraid not, despite how much people don't want to believe them. Polls are a snapshot in time, and in this case serves to show a trend. The trend is clear and that is the fact Trump has momentum and forging forward despite tons of negative press and organized schemes to stop him.
Compared to Hilary at this point he is in a statistical dead heat, which means that the old saw "he can't beat Hilary" is no longer valid.
Me thinks that anyone that thinks either Trump or Hillary is going to be good for the Nation needs their head examined. Worst Election EVER.