The Daily Trail: Donald Trump's Love Affair With Polls Is Definitely Over
All great love stories come to an end. This week, we have witnessed the collapse of a romance for the ages. We pause now to pay tribute to the epic relationship between Donald Trump and his poll numbers — a pairing that appears to be, if not over, definitely on a break.
So far, it's a rocky breakup. When the Republican nominee has mentioned polls at all, it's either to reminisce about far happier times and deny that anything has changed, or to dismiss entirely the story surveys are telling now. No longer — at least, not from Monday afternoon through Thursday night, when we're typing this — is he tweeting cheery poll graphics or text toplines. Once, there was love. Right now, there is only an empty space.
The best polling news for Donald Trump on Thursday was that an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll had him down only 9 points to Hillary Clinton.
That survey was released a little while after a poll from McClatchy/Marist that showed Trump down 15 points, pulling only 33 percent of the vote. Those numbers are, to put it bluntly, shocking. Mitt Romney was never down by that much to President Obama in 2012; his worst poll was a survey in June from Bloomberg that had him down 13, with 40 percent of the vote.
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