Donald Trump Hits 49 Percent Support in New National Poll

[Liberal_in_LA]

Source: Abc

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is stretching his lead to its widest margin, garnering support from nearly half of GOP voters nationwide in a new poll today.

Forty-nine percent of Republican voters say they back Trump for the Republican nomination in the new CNN-ORC poll released this morning. Sen. Marco Rubio earns 16 percent support, Sen. Ted Cruz earns 15 percent, Dr. Ben Carson has 10 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 6 percent.

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Trump's support also remains widespread across every demographic group, including gender, ideology, age and even education level, where Trump had lagged behind among voters with a college degree.

Other recent national polling has shown Trump with a double-digit lead and support from about one-third of GOP voters.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-hits-49-percent-support-national-poll/story?id=37279402

[oberliner]

1. Among GOP voters

Which says quite a lot about that party.

[MattP]

2. The KKK endorsement is worth 10 points in the GOP

[turendae]

3. My kids made this parody of Trump and it's priceless

Watch the slides with the poll numbers.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Lol. Good use of barbie dolls

[big_dog]

10. very creative!

n/t

[Human101948]

4. Trump has about 20% of the electorate...with highest negatives ever recorded...

Do two negatives make a positive?

We’ve got an unpopular set of presidential candidates this year– Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in either party with a net-positive favorability rating — but Trump is the most unpopular of all. His favorability rating is 33 percent, as compared with an unfavorable rating of 58 percent, for a net rating of -25 percentage points. By comparison Hillary Clinton, whose favorability ratings are notoriously poor, has a 42 percent favorable rating against a 50 percent unfavorable rating, for a net of -8 points. Those are bad numbers, but nowhere near as bad as Trump’s.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-really-unpopular-with-general-election-voters/

[LongTomH]

7. And people still say: "I like Bernie; but, Hillary is more electable!"

Bloody Hell!!!!! When will people wake up???

[DCBob]

6. Good grief.. this country is going full blast "Idiocracy"

Its frightening.

[SoapBox]

8. The impotent MSM has succeeded in their endless promotion.

...you bought it, you own it.

[moonscape]

9. It's all so disheartening and dismaying - I've run out of words. n/t