Poll: GOP voters standing behind Trump after lewd comments

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: The Hill


A new poll shows a large majority of Republican voters is standing behind Donald Trump after a tape surfaced showing the party’s nominee making lewd comments about women in 2005.

Almost three-quarters of Republicans, 74 percent, said GOP leaders should still back Trump, according to a Politico/Morning Consult poll released Sunday morning.

Twelve percent of all Republican voters said Trump should end his campaign, pollsters found. Thirteen percent of female Republicans said he should drop out.

Seventy percent of Democrats, meanwhile, said Trump should leave the race.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/300060-poll-gop-voters-standing-behind-trump-after-lewd-comments

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I am deeply offended that Hillary said half of his supporters are deplorables.

She seriously understated the 74 percent who would be fine with their nominee bragging about how he got away with sex assaults.

[underpants]

1. That's not enough to win. AND their ignorant hate is showing.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. They have that blank stare

of stupidity and numb hatred

[mdbl]

3. There's one word left for the GOP voters

CREEPY!

[BlueStreak]

4. That's why they are deplorable

I heard an interview a couple of days ago with a couple in Ohio. The guy was a life-long factory worker who had always voted for Democrats. He and his wife said they were thinking seriously about voting for Trum. This was really bizarre. The reporter asked about one issue after another. In each case, the couple seemed to agree with the position Clinton has on the issue.

Until the reporter said "what about immigration?"

Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding

These people were racists and xenophobes, plain and simple. And there are millions like them. We aren't going to change that. We have a country full of racists, and ironically, Obama's presidency has emboldened them to come out in public as if that was not a deplorable thing. I don't know this is anything new. It has been there since the beginning of the country. But it looks to me like we may be living among 25% hard core racists and xenophobes. I am not sure we have made such a lot of progress since the Civil War.

[mdbl]

7. So true

I thought Obama in the presidency would have the opposite effect and calm down the racism, but in face has morphed it into a movement. It's very sad our society is so unenlightened and so easily manipulated by hitler-esc type maneuvers by those in the GOP and the KKK.

[BlueStreak]

14. And for all the talk of the GOP trying to change after Trump, they really have no choice

The electorate available to the GOP is:

10% of of the voters who are dumbassess failing the "You aren't in the 1%. Why do you vote as if you were?" rule

10% hard core racists, still carrying the baggage of the Civil War

10% equal opportunity racists that don't just hate blacks, but are fearful of Mexicans, Muslims, Asians, and all the other "them"s

10% religious and gun wackos

1% that actually benefit from Republican policies and values

To win a national election they need every one of these groups to turn out in high numbers. They simply cannot afford to drop any of these groups.

[VMA131Marine]

5. I'm starting to worry that there are going to be mass suicides of Trumpers

after he loses. They have so much invested in him and they really believe that a President Hillary Clinton will be the end of the country.

[broadcaster75201]

34. I hope so nt

nt

[Coventina]

36. I'm more worried about mass shootings, frankly.

All this talk of "patriots" who are going to "rise up" and revolt is pretty creepy.

[world wide wally]

6. No need to be offended.

This means that Trump lost 24% of his Republican voters.

[GreenEyedLefty]

8. The photo in the OP fascinates me.

The dead-eyed stares. Even the woman who is smiling, there is no real mirth in her eyes. I wonder what goes on in the mind of someone who allows others to do the thinking for them. Nothing, I suppose.

[Orrex]

9. Of course they are

They don't love him in spite of the horrible things that he says and does; they love him because of the horrible things that he says and does.

Perhaps the one true statement that Trump has made during his campaign is that he could shoot someone in the street and his supporters would still vote for him. He and his supporters have proven this claim again and again and again.

[relayerbob]

11. So, the number of deplorables is up

to 100%

[lark]

12. Bet my crazy ass repug boss is one standing by him.

She hates HRC with a visceral passion and that's what this is about to her. She watches Faux so thinks Hillary is responsible for Benghazi and thinks she shared national secrets via her email. In other words, she's a political idiot and would be sooo shocked if drumpf was elected and turned into the Hitler I think he would be. Of course, this wouldn't be her fault, she's perfect, it's Hillarys' for making her hate her. that's how deep repug delusion runs. I csn't talk to her about this, she'd see my total disdain and fire me, that's how she rolls.

[Mary Mac]

32. look for another boss

Nt

[lark]

40. I'm retiring very soon

or I would.

[BlueStreak]

13. I understand the men, but WTF is wrong with these women?

Maybe I'll try attending a Trump rally (if he has any more) and start grabbing the private parts of each woman I see, if they think that is such acceptable behavior.

If they object, I'll just explain, "Hey, I'm rich and famous. I can do this."

How far do you think I'd get with that?

[SunSeeker]

28. Their xenophobia overwhelms rational thought.

Plus they only watch Fox.

[itsrobert]

16. Just don't let Trump stand behind America

and sexually assault it like a dog.

[Andy823]

17. So they did a poll

1,549 registered voters, with 1,390 likely voters. Yet they have lost Utah for sure, Hillary is taking the lead in most of the swing states, 26% of theses they did survey aren't going to be voting for him, we still have plenty of time for more stuff to come out, and it will. Trump is tweeting all kinds of crap about the republicans who are not standing by him, so many of his voters are NOT going to vote down ticket when they vote, because they are pissed at them for not standing behind their sick piece of crap candidate, and tonight we get another debate where Trump is going to make things even worse.

I don't see anything positive for republicans at all. Looks like a pretty good morning to me!

[PSPS]

18. This really points out the media's fallacy of a "horse race"

With Trump support of merely a plurality of what's left of the GOP base, the fact that "three-quarters of Republicans" still support Trump indicates that the real number of republicans in the country is small -- certainly too small to win any national election. In other words, the GOP base of bigots, xenophobes, white supremacists, misogynists and billionaires, is lucky to hit 30% of the voting public. But the media can't admit this fact because, in order to fill their ad slots, they have to create "drama."

[truthisfreedom]

19. It's the republican cult.

The dead-eyed stares give it away. They'll stand by their leader with every ounce of their collective Stockholm syndrome.

[SunSeeker]

26. It is not Stockholm Syndrome. Trump gives voice to their hatreds.

He is their lizard brain, on a live mic.

[Quantess]

33. The women, though?

Do they even think of who they are voting for? The hispanics, the taxpaying poor, the taxpaying middle class?

Or are you suggesting that they hate themselves and vote against themselves? If so, that's interesting, and not completely out of the question.

[SunSeeker]

38. Republican women can be just as racist and sexist as men.

[Amonester]

29. To most of the civilized world outside of Putin's inner circle...

it looks more like a Berlin syndrome, circa late 1944 ATM.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/ < Can't wait for later this week, although GOTV is still a priority so we can hope to stop the Sixth Mass Extinction that already started... honey bees first... it's getting late GOTV

[turbinetree]

20. And these deplorables go around being the "law and order" types

and if one of there female family members got this kind of "stuff" what would they do and say--------------it's okay, I don't think so


Your "republican candidate" commits serial assault and battery, and then he says that he would bring back "stop and frisk".

Think about that for one moment, "stop and frisk"

[tblue37]

43. These are headlines for stories on raw Story today:

Pat Robertson: It’s ‘macho’ for Trump to grab women ‘by the p*ssy’ without permission

Ex-prosecutor Jeff Sessions won’t say forcibly grabbing a woman by the genitals is sexual assault

[ananda]

21. Well, at least now the GOP cannot shake Trump.

His voters would be up in arms (in every sense of the word.)

[Blue Idaho]

22. Not Your Fathers Republican Party Anymore...

The knuckle dragger takeover of the Republican Party is complete. There is no room left there for ideological conservatism. Gone are the days of the intellectual republican. They have all been shunted to the side by the aging backwoods yokels who follow personally instead of principle.

Of course what we are really watching is a party in its death throwes. The party has crawled out onto the weakest limb of the evolutionary tree of democracy and are busy sawing it off. Voting for and backing Trump Is now the litmus test for self centered stupidity, hate in its many flavors, and fear of all things modern.

They don't want their country back, they want their buggy whips and plantation slaves back.

[nwduke]

23. Uh----

Looks like they need a bigger basket!

[rladdi]

24. During this entire election, the radical women amaze me. They would certainly be

good ISIS members. They are most extreme and maybe would like Trump to grope them. Women are more radical and say things more extreme than the males do. So i know why so many women join ISIS. Just look at all the female spokes persons on TV for Trump. Most are radical women and supports anything Donald says or does. We have Katrina Pierson, Kellyanne Conway, Most of the GOP female politicians in House/senate, they all support Trump. What surprises me most are Ralph Reid and the so called men of GOD. They said they support Trump no matter what he says or does. Are they really men of GOD or the DEVIL.

[SunSeeker]

25. Well, Hillary did say "half" was wrong. nt

[Cha]

27. Yes, Hillary nailed you trump fans... 'bout time you copped to it. You're

just going to need a bigger basket.

[Rex]

30. Of course! They would stand behind Satan after he revealed himself to the world.

And yet suggest he is misunderstood AND still pretend to be Purity Police.

[awoke_in_2003]

31. They all are

sure, Ana Navarro is going on some righteous rants lately, and some GOP are speaking out, but where the fuck have they been the last 20-30 years? Seriously, have these dumbasses not been paying attention? They are as stupid as Log Cabin Republicans and black White supremacists (Dave Chapelle reference)

[ailsagirl]

35. Somehow I can't imagine ever holding a sign that reads...

DEPLORABLE and proud of it

[4lbs]

37. It's not the GOP voters that will be swayed, but the Independents and any undecideds that are still

left.

He was always going to get about 85% of Republicans.

However, that would have never been enough to get more than about 41%.

To win, he needed to get a majority of Independents and undecideds.

[0rganism]

39. good good, we don't want him dropping out due to perceived lack of support

gotta turn up that heat slowly, so it comes to a boil on Halloween

[forest444]

41. And then they wonder why anyone would call them a "basket of deplorables"

[AgadorSparticus]

42. Of course they will vote for him. But, this election is not about them.