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applegrove

(118,008 posts)
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 09:25 PM Jul 2018

TRUMP IS LOSING HILLARY HATERS AND THAT COULD COST REPUBLICANS THE HOUSE IN MIDTERMS: POLL

By Greg Price at Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-hillary-haters-midterms-republicans-1046012

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But with Trump serving as one of the most polarizing leaders in the country’s history, a new poll has indicated the voters who originally picked Trump due to their dislike of Clinton could swing the other way during this fall’s midterm elections.

Fifty-one percent of so-called “Never Hillary” independent voters disapprove of Trump, with 47 percent approving, according to an Axios/Survey Monkey poll released Friday. The online poll drew its results from 52,211 respondents and had a margin-of-error of 1.5 percentage points.

The disapproval for Trump among the group, even if narrow, could be a worrying sign for the president and his party looking ahead to the 2018 midterms. Much, though, will depend on how many of those who disapprove of Trump show up to cast a vote for a Democrat in November.

In the 2016 presidential election, 33 percent of the “Never Hillary” group selected Trump, compared to 23 percent who voted for an independent candidate, with 37 percent opting to stay home.


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applegrove

(118,008 posts)
1. If they disliked Trump enough to stay home or vote 3rd party maybe
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 09:27 PM
Jul 2018

they will vote Democratic after what Trump has wrought.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
10. That was my though also.
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 11:56 PM
Jul 2018

My guess is he has most of the 33% that voted for him still, but the 51% he is losing likely comes from the group that did something else.

applegrove

(118,008 posts)
3. The independents who identified as never Hillary. I'm guessing male former
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 09:35 PM
Jul 2018

union guys. But that is just a guess.

spooky3

(34,300 posts)
8. another guess in addition to your group--a 20-something relative falls into the category
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 11:18 PM
Jul 2018

Has a college degree, white, male, lives in religious area; he is employed but is not in a union.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
4. You mean the bots did not win?
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 09:36 PM
Jul 2018

Axios is an extension of Politico and Politico was one of the sites that helped through Russia and the GOPs put out fake news.

Anywho, thanks applegrove for some good news.

applegrove

(118,008 posts)
5. Of course the bots helped spread never Hillary in the end. So they are responsible too.
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 09:38 PM
Jul 2018

Independants who stayed home or voted 3rd party were just the tools used to vote/not vote.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
11. Approval of Trump and voting for him don't always align sensibly
Sun Jul 29, 2018, 12:37 AM
Jul 2018

In the 2016 exit poll it was 38% approval 60% disapproval. Yet he is in office.

Maybe it will translate more cleanly in midterms with Trump not on the ballot.

applegrove

(118,008 posts)
12. That's because so many did not vote. Suppressing democrats and independant
Sun Jul 29, 2018, 12:46 AM
Jul 2018

votes was one goal of Russian interference on Facebook and Twitter. It worked.

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