2016 Postmortem
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Trump has insulted the military and veterans six ways to Sunday time and time again. Why should there be this level of support among members of the military for a man who has no coherent international policy beyond "kill everyone?"
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/election/2016/05/09/military-times-survey-donald-trump-beats-hillary-clinton/84132402/
In a new survey of American military personnel, Donald Trump emerged as active-duty service members' preference to become the next U.S. president, topping Hillary Clinton by more than a 2-to-1 margin. However, in the latest Military Times election survey, more than one in five troops said theyd rather not vote in November if they have to choose between just those two candidates.
But given only those choices, 21 percent of the service members surveyed said they would abstain from voting.More than 54 percent of the 951 troops Military Times surveyed said they would vote for Trump, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, over Clinton, the Democratic front-runner. Only about 25 percent said they would vote for Clinton in that matchup.
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)anti military non patriots.
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)glennward
(989 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)FSogol
(45,487 posts)Doubt they're lining up to vote for Comb-over Trumpy.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I believe some of that information can be found on page 18.
Nothing would shock me considering the level of testosterone in the military. Don't get me wrong. It's no fault of those serving, it's simply by design.
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Nowadays, with no draft, people don't join the military to spread peace or help mankind.There's a small percentage that do it for education or to get out of a bad situation, but not many.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)I wonder how they put this supposed survey together.