Peter1469
08-17-2016, 06:59 PM
Trump leads Clinton among military households- 51 to 41 (http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-trump-leads-clinton-among-military-households-n632106)
Unsurprising.
Interesting article and they go into detail about their methods.
There has been a lot of speculation about how much support Trump is getting among veterans and those affiliated with the military. Trump himself has spent a considerable amount of effort to secure this important voting bloc. But the candidate generated considerable controversy with his feud with a "Gold Star" family that appeared at the Democratic National Convention. Khizr Khan, whose military son was killed in Iraq, criticized Trump's call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S. Trump later accused Khan of making false statements about him.
Typically, Republicans do well among military households, and past presidential elections have shown the Republican candidate winning veterans by double digits. Mitt Romney won the veterans vote by 20 points in 2012, according to a American National Election Studies post-election survey (http://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=nes2012). John McCain carried vets by 10 points in 2008, and George W. Bush won veterans by 16 points in 2004 according to network exit polls.
Unsurprising.
Interesting article and they go into detail about their methods.
There has been a lot of speculation about how much support Trump is getting among veterans and those affiliated with the military. Trump himself has spent a considerable amount of effort to secure this important voting bloc. But the candidate generated considerable controversy with his feud with a "Gold Star" family that appeared at the Democratic National Convention. Khizr Khan, whose military son was killed in Iraq, criticized Trump's call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S. Trump later accused Khan of making false statements about him.
Typically, Republicans do well among military households, and past presidential elections have shown the Republican candidate winning veterans by double digits. Mitt Romney won the veterans vote by 20 points in 2012, according to a American National Election Studies post-election survey (http://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=nes2012). John McCain carried vets by 10 points in 2008, and George W. Bush won veterans by 16 points in 2004 according to network exit polls.