Clinton Vaults to a Double-Digit Lead, Boosted by Broad Disapproval of Trump (POLL)

[brooklynite]

Source: ABC News

Hillary Clinton has vaulted to a double-digit advantage in the inaugural ABC News 2016 election tracking poll, boosted by broad disapproval of Donald Trump on two controversial issues: His treatment of women and his reluctance to endorse the election’s legitimacy.

Likely voters by a vast 69-24 percent disapprove of Trump’s response to questions about his treatment of women. After a series of allegations of past sexual misconduct, the poll finds that some women who’d initially given him the benefit of the doubt have since moved away.

See PDF with full results, charts and tables here.

Fifty-nine percent of likely voters, moreover, reject Trump’s suggestion that the election is rigged in Clinton’s favor, and more, 65 percent, disapprove of his refusal to say whether he’d accept a Clinton victory as legitimate. Most strongly disapprove, a relatively rare result.

All told, Clinton leads Trump by 12 percentage points among likely voters, 50 to 38 percent, in the national survey, her highest support and his lowest to date in ABC News and ABC News/Washington Post polls. Gary Johnson has 5 percent support, Jill Stein 2 percent.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clinton-vaults-double-digit-lead-boosted-broad-disapproval/story?id=42993821&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_hero_headlines_bsq_hed

[NYC Liberal]

1. Who are the 24% that approve of his "response to questions about his treatment of women"

Those are people I want to avoid at all costs.

[oberliner]

6. how about the 74 percent of republicans who agree about the election being rigged

that is scary

[tarheelsunc]

8. When Hillary said 50% of his supporters are deplorable, she was low-balling. eom

[cannabis_flower]

15. I think there are 3 groups voting for Trump..

The Deplorables... that would be the racists. The greedy bastards and the Can't Fix Stupids. They might overlap a little bit.

[lark]

7. Yeah, they are probably his hard core KKK, Aryan Nation, White Surpremicist (sp),

Jerry Falwell type of women haters and a few brainwashed women who follow their men in hating women, because jebus says. Avoiding these types are good. I make sure I don't walk too close to any house that has a drumpf sign. My bad thieving neighbor has 2 taped inside his window because people kept stealing his yard signs. Now 2 of his trees destroyed our chain link back fence and the other neighbors fence and shed and he won't even cut down the heavily damaged 30 ft. 1/2 tree that's left. So now I have to serve notice to him to remove this very present danger or he will be held responsible for double damages due to malicious negligence, the assholes. Just shows his supporters are as classless as him.

[True_Blue]

9. The deplorables.n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. Nuts who want him to win no matter what

[livetohike]

2. Great! Let's bring this home and be rid of him.

Watching his surrogates this morning pathetically trying to say the race is close.

[smirkymonkey]

3. K&R

[EricMaundry]

4. Awesome - Thank you

[OKNancy]

5. graphic

[truthisfreedom]

10. I think that as soon as he started announcing that he was going to sue his accusers

that pretty much sealed the deal for many women who were on the fence. That, unfortunately for trump and his limited way of thinking, clarified the answer to the nagging question: "Why didn't these accusers come forward before?" Obviously, they were afraid of being sued. And here he goes with the lawyers, even though his own lawyers have in all likelihood told him not to do it before the election.

[Stonepounder]

11. The Times They Are A-changing

Come Senators, Congressmen
Please Heed the Call
Don't Stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he that has stalled
There's a battle outside and its raging
It will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changing.
-Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate

I've been waiting 50 years for this! If you are not familiar with his song, see full lyrics at:

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+times+they+are+a+changin+lyrics&oq=the+times+they+are&aqs=chrome.1.0l2j69i57j0l3.5479j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[riversedge]

12. A Democratic Wave Is Building As Number Of Republicans Likely To Vote Drops By Nearly 20%

A Democratic Wave Is Building As Number Of Republicans Likely To Vote Drops By Nearly 20%

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/23/democratic-wave-coming-number-republicans-vote-drops-20.html

By Jason Easley on Sun, Oct 23rd, 2016 at 10:57 am

The new ABC News/Washington Post has found that Donald Trump is threatening to depress Republican turnout by nearly 20 points as poll indicators point to a building Democratic wave.
A Democratic Wave Is Building As Number Of Republicans Likely To Vote Drops By Nearly 20%

The new ABC News/Washington Post has found that Donald Trump is threatening to depress Republican turnout by nearly 20 points as poll indicators point to a building Democratic wave.

According to the poll, “The previous ABC/Post poll found a sharp 12-point decline in enthusiasm for Trump among his supporters, almost exclusively among those who’d preferred a different GOP nominee. Intended participation now has followed: The share of registered Republicans who are likely to vote is down 7 points since mid-October.”

An equally large problem for Republicans is that Trump’s support is in collapse with white voters. Clinton leads Trump with men 44%-41%. She has gained 12 points with non-college educated white women and has opened up a 32 point lead with college-educated white women. Trump leads Clinton with white voters by just 4 points, 47%-43%. Mitt Romney carried these voters by 20 points in 2012.

Donald Trump’s election rigging claims and the way he has attacked the women who are accusing him of sexual assault have backfired and depressed Republican turnout.

The numbers in the ABC News/Washington Post poll are more concrete because they aren’t based on mythic enthusiasm. It is a straight up question of whether or not people are going to vote. ...................

[paleotn]

16. Democratic tidal wave coming....

...if it plays out, control of the Senate is a cinch. The House? I ain't going there. I wont jinx us.

[Johnny2X2X]

13. Saw this mentioned on all the shows today

Great timing as it cemented the narrative that this is not a competitive race even in FOX.

[paleotn]

14. Very interesting info....

I've not taken the time to look at polling details in months...and it appears we have women and minority voters to thank for keeping us from the jaws of hell. At least in this particular poll....

Women - 55% Clinton - 35% Trump +20 Clinton

White Women - 50% Clinton - 43% Trump +7 Clinton

White Women (college graduates) - 62% Clinton - 30% Trump +32 Clinton
- among college educated women of color, the split is most likely far greater! 70's and 80's for Clinton at least

Non-White - Net 68% Clinton - 14% Trump +54 Clinton
African Americans +78 Clinton
Hispanics +38% Clinton (I would expect this to be higher...interesting)


Trumps largest constituency? You guessed it.....

White Men (no college degree) 29% Clinton - 60% Trump +31 Trump
White Women (no college degree) 42% Clinton - 51% Trump +9 Trump

With household income proportional to actual voter turnout, we could be seeing a Clinton landslide hiding in the data. Particularly as non-degreed whites become more despondent with the latest polling and revert to their usual low turnout.