I think that the primaries will be important and it sounds like Trump will start off on a losing note which will hurt him nationally imo. Trump has already alienated the hispanics/latinos and being an equal opportunity offender, he's got plenty of time to piss off some other groups and lose their votes as well. If he's hasn't peaked yet, he will soon and it's all downhill from there.
Yup. But it isn't the GOP per se. It is the voters in the GOP. The GOP is now populated by a bunch of reactionary nuts who think the whole world is against them. And that group is mainly composed of uneducated white people and the vast majority of those are evangelicals.
And then there is the very large percentage of us who aren't religious, are very educated, make 6 figures, and don't like runaway spending (taxes). In fact, most people I know fit that demographic .
So the voters of California, NY, Illinois, Maryland are smart, all democratic states and will go for Hillary, are fiscally bankrupt. And the states of Texas and conservative legislatures that are being run properly, are morons? Give me the morons, they know that they are responsible for themselves and not entitled to live off other people.
I didn't see any measure of "success" cited in those polls. Both parties are made up of a lot of different kinds of folks. The data showed that the more educated someone was, the more likely they were to have a lean toward the D's. It also showed that R's held the advantage with the less educated, as well as with older people, white Christians and Mormons. I'm not holding that up to say anything one way or the other about either party. My point is that you shouldn't inject your opinion about the level of success of someone based on party affiliation into the argument. It weakens your point.
If the voters go into the polls thinking environment or economy our next prez will probably be a dem. If the voters go in thinking terrorism or immigration our next prez is probably a rep.
Do you really believe that Dems get a vote as the champion of the economy after 7 years Of the Obama administration? I really had more faith in you. Must apologize.
A lot of voters are going to hit the polls with immigration as an important issue, but they are not going to agree with the GOP stance.
Agree. Immigration is a giant bullet in everyone's agenda at this point, but everyone has a different approach to fix it.
Gotcha. Thanks for the info. I looked at the employment stats, and it was odd to me that the dem lean dominated all employment categories (full time, part time, and unemployed). It also struck me as odd that the number of folks falling into those categories was so low (over 25k participants, little over 5k total in those categories). That must mean that this data is aggregate, and that question wasn't always asked. I wonder if there's any bias to those numbers based on that since they are so different than the income level numbers.
