Clueless Trump brags about new poll that shows him statistically tied with Hillary

[Cigar]

Clueless Trump brags about new poll that shows him statistically tied with Hillary in GeorgiaNo one would accuse Donald Trump of being a knowledgeable veteran of the political scene to begin with, but what might be the most fascinating aspect of his ascendancy to the republican nomination is his seeming total lack of interest in learning anything. For instance, a full year into his campaign, one might expect him to have figured out that Georgia is traditionally a solidly red state in the general election and that he should be dominating there. Instead he’s cluelessly bragging about the fact that his general election rival Hillary Clinton is within the margin of error of taking Georgia away from him.

“Thank you Georgia,” reads Donald Trump’s tweet as he goes on to list the Atlanta Journal Constitution poll results of “Donald Trump 45%, Hillary Clinton 41%” as if this were something to be bragging about in that particular red state. As the newspaper itself acknowledged in the article it published announcing the poll numbers, the margin of error is greater than the four point margin, meaning that Trump and Hillary are statistically tied in Georgia — which he should be winning handily.

It’s not clear what might be the greater liability here. On the one hand Donald Trump appears to have such narrow appeal, even among conservatives, that he’s entering the general election in danger of losing the solidly conservative Georgia. That’s a state that even the unpopular 2012 republican nominee Mitt Romney won by double digits over President Obama. In fact Georgia has gone to the republicans in the last five presidential elections. So it’s a huge liability for Trump that he’s in danger of losing a state that had been initially assumed to be safely in the republican column.

But it’s arguably an even bigger liability that Trump doesn’t seem to know he’s supposed to be winning Georgia....


http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/clueless-trump-brags-about-new-poll-that-shows-hillary/24815/

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Clueless Trump brags about new poll that shows him statistically tied with Hillary in Georgia

No one would accuse Donald Trump of being a knowledgeable veteran of the political scene to begin with, but what might be the most fascinating aspect of his ascendancy to the republican nomination is his seeming total lack of interest in learning anything. For instance, a full year into his campaign, one might expect him to have figured out that Georgia is traditionally a solidly red state in the general election and that he should be dominating there. Instead he’s cluelessly bragging about the fact that his general election rival Hillary Clinton is within the margin of error of taking Georgia away from him.

“Thank you Georgia,” reads Donald Trump’s tweet as he goes on to list the Atlanta Journal Constitution poll results of “Donald Trump 45%, Hillary Clinton 41%” as if this were something to be bragging about in that particular red state. As the newspaper itself acknowledged in the article it published announcing the poll numbers, the margin of error is greater than the four point margin, meaning that Trump and Hillary are statistically tied in Georgia — which he should be winning handily.

It’s not clear what might be the greater liability here. On the one hand Donald Trump appears to have such narrow appeal, even among conservatives, that he’s entering the general election in danger of losing the solidly conservative Georgia. That’s a state that even the unpopular 2012 republican nominee Mitt Romney won by double digits over President Obama. In fact Georgia has gone to the republicans in the last five presidential elections. So it’s a huge liability for Trump that he’s in danger of losing a state that had been initially assumed to be safely in the republican column.

But it’s arguably an even bigger liability that Trump doesn’t seem to know he’s supposed to be winning Georgia....


http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/clueless-trump-brags-about-new-poll-that-shows-hillary/24815/

It sounds like trump is winning georgia.

[FindersKeepers]

I smell desperation.

[Cigar]

Big Surprise, Conservatives Wining Georgia :laugh: ... But still Losing White House

[Chris]

Some polls show Clinton ahead, other Trump. That's the nature of political polls.

[MMC]

Bernie voters are not with her:
These exit polls should rattle the Clinton campaign.....

One of the most striking—and disturbing—takeaways from Tuesday’s West Virginia Democratic primary were exit polls that found large numbers of Bernie Sanders supporters saying if not Bernie, they would actually vote for Donald Trump next fall.

West Virginia is not a mirror of the rest of the country, although its economy and demographics resemble a lot of the Midwest and Appalachia. As Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute (http://www.monmouth.edu/university/monmouth-university-polling-institute.aspx), told AlterNet earlier this week, Sanders supporters do not just include younger people and progressives who feel President Obama’s promises in 2008 “never materialized.” They also include “anti-Hillary white males” who are not enamored with Bernie Sanders and don’t like Hillary either.

The question for millions of Sanders supporters nationwide is not so much are they going to vote for Trump, but whether they will vote for Clinton if she edges out Sanders for the Democratic nomination. The campaign has a Bernie or Bust subset, whose website (https://citizensagainstplutocracy.wordpress.com/) claims it has “99,000+ people” who vowed to write in Sanders’ name or support the Green Party candidate in November, and hopes its ranks will reach 1 million people.....snip~

http://www.salon.com/2016/05/13/bernie_supporters_wont_vote_hillary_a_chilling_new _development_in_the_clinton_campaign_partner/