Trump's Poll Numbers

[Doctor Jack]

One thing I have found to be interesting about all of the recent polling between trump and clinton is Trump's level of support. We have heard a lot about trump having a surge in poll numbers due to clinching the nomination and republicans rallying around him. They say that Trump appears to have a real lock on the republican base at this point. His support is in place and ready to go and is sitting around....41%. A few show him around 42%, a few around 39% but overall his highest polls he has ever had have him in the upper 30's to low 40's.

We hear a lot about how clinton is only leading trump by 2 or 3 points (before she has consolidated democratic support I should add) but we never hear about how Trump's high water mark so far is somewhere between abysmal and catastrophic. Curious that the media would skew their coverage of this. Its so unlike them....

[spanone]

2. sorry, posted in wrong forum.

[saltpoint]

3. I am wondering if Trump is personally

too unstable to be in the very public (and highly scrutinized) heat of a presidential campaign.

He may be a pit bull in his own board rooms. But he's in the public eye, visible to all, and vulnerable to exposure.

I don't think a narcissistic personality likes that sort of environment, especially when reporters begin dredging up things Trump would just as soon they never find.

[Doctor Jack]

7. Just wait until the dems are out in force against him

Imagine when Hillary, Bill, Sanders, Obama, and Biden are all mocking him relentlessly. I could see him vomiting with rage during one of his klan rallies.

The approach they need to take with him is the same that Biden took with Paul Ryan during the 2012 VP debates: just laugh in his face until he turns bright red. Things are going to get real fun.

[saltpoint]

10. Yep. Mr. Trump is probably going

to make it easy for us, too.

And he does seem to be a lad with a volatile temper.

[Cosmocat]

12. I think Hillary and Obama need to stay above it

for the most part, stick to standard political comparisons.

But, while (hopefully) about 55% or so of the country gets that this guy has absolutely no business being POTUS, they need someone else to vote for, and it has to be Hillary, and she has to act the part. So, she can't be "mocking him." And, it just isn't who BHO is, he is too classy and above it.

I am sure they will take some really subtle shots, but they need to be presidential.

That said, from those two down, there have to be a LOT of high level Ds who troll the $hit out of him.

Elizabeth Warren has shown the way to do it.

His nature is pretty clear, he simply can not let anything other than kissing his ass go, and the more of a dig someone takes at him, the more he loses his focus and responds to it.

He needs to have a couple people going after him daily, because that will be enough to distract him and keep him from taking as many shots at Hillary, and also continue to highlight him as the meglomaniac he is in comparison to Hillary being FAR more fit for the job.

[braddy]

4. That is what I keep seeing also, he doesn't seem to be going anywhere, or have much anywhere to go.

[Doctor Jack]

5. Charlie Cook said a few days ago

that if clinton gets just 70% of sanders supporters, she will win by 8-10 points. The only people that trump has left to try to win over are Sanders supporters and I highly doubt that he would would appeal to anywhere near 30% of them, let alone enough to actually overtake clinton.

Really, what is left for him? There are only so many white men with grossly misplaced anger in this country.

[SunSeeker]

6. K & R

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. The media wants a horse race

In addition to the reality TV clown parading as a presidential nominee

[Doctor Jack]

9. They always do, just have to look past what the low information media has to say

I still remember on election night 2008, as the polls were already closing, MSNBC was still claiming that the race was a toss up and we had no idea what was going to happen. Its all about money, no about facts.

[Cosmocat]

11. I thought I saw him a little higher in a poll here or there

44% or so.

But, I generally agree with that point.

With the republican pods coming in line, as long as he does not get into the mid to upper 40s before the convention clears, it does not reach a critical mass.

[UCmeNdc]

13. Donald Trump Lies!

He is a Con artist.