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Since winning the presidency, Trump has pushed a health-care bill that would cut Medicaid and increase the ranks of the uninsured by 24 million; proposed a budget that would raise military spending by $54 billion while slashing funding for education and transportation; appointed five Goldman Sachs alums to top positions in his White House; picked a foreign agent of Turkeys Islamist government as his top national security adviser; acknowledged that the FBI is investigating his presidential campaign; called for gutting programs that provide job training and development to rural America; gotten into diplomatic spats with Mexico, Australia, and the United Kingdom; and failed to pass a single piece of major legislation, while the one bill hes put some muscle behind appears poised for defeat.
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But while such #Trumpgrets do exist, they are aberrations: Only 3 percent of Trump voters regret their decision and fewer than 1 percent wish they had voted for Hillary Clinton last fall according to a new poll from Penn States McCourtney Institute of Democracy and YouGov.
Whats more, the poll doesnt find all that much ambivalence among the 97 percent of non-regretful Trump backers. When these voters were asked, If you could send a message to President Trump, what would it be? most responded with variations on stay strong, keep it up, or stay the course. Only seven of the 327 (non-regretful) Trump voters surveyed offered a sharply critical message about the presidents performance.
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/regretful-trump-voters-are-mostly-a-myth.html
Dumb asses
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)the believers, the religious right who wanted to pack SCOTUS and those that were leaning Clinton until Comey interfered.
The believers(deplorables) will not sway. The religious right(deplorables) won't sway but those that changed their mind last minute are going to have some regrets.
Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)They said the "silent Trump voter" didn't exist, hence Hillary would easily sail to victory according to polling data. But that was wrong.
louis-t
(23,296 posts)Even my own mother says "I know he's a terrible person, but.....Hillary emails, don't trust her, she said all those things, Benghazi, blah blah blah..."
The fear-mongering and propaganda from the right has succeeded.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)and FOX/hate radio pundits keep the illusion in place. The majority of the supporters don't know any better, and will never learn. If shit hits the fan for them on a personal level, they'll just blame whatever the pundits tell them to blame.
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)Trump is still in his honeymoon phase, so that fact that 3% already regret voting for him is HUGE.
That translates to 1.89 million votes. Barring a miracle, Dem turnout should surpass 2016, so Trump needs to better his 63 million total to have any shot at winning a second term, and if he's lost 1.89 million voters already he's in DEEP shit.
Republicans could run a fresh steaming pile of horseshit as their nominee and get 60 million votes. Forget about any mass exodus or Trump voters, it's not happening. 3% is spectacular news.