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6:19 PM MAR 3, 2016
By NATE SILVER
... On Thursday, Mitt Romney, the previous Republican presidential nominee and the closest thing the GOP has to a party elder, denounced Trump in the strongest possible terms. Trump responded by making what sounded to me like a blow job reference ...
... as spectacular as the clash between Trump and Republican party elites has become, the coverage of it tends to obscure another .. important part of the story. Trump does not just divide rank-and-file voters from Republican poo-bahs. Hes also extremely divisive among Republican voters, much more so than a typical front-runner. In exit polls so far, only 49 percent of Republican voters say they would be satisfied with Trump as their nominee ... But compounding the GOPs problems, Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz would leave only slightly more Republican voters happy ...
The exit polls have asked Republican voters in seven states .. whether theyd be satisfied if each of Cruz, Rubio and Trump won the nomination ... On average, just 49 percent of these actual Republican voters said theyd be satisfied with Trump. The numbers for the other two candidates were better, but not by much: 53 percent of voters said theyd be satisfied with Rubio, and 51 percent with Cruz ...
Not only is Trumps 49 percent satisfaction rating lower than any recent party nominees, its also lower than almost all the losers. Rick Santorum in 2012 was more widely acceptable than Trump, for example ...
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republican-voters-kind-of-hate-all-their-choices/
jillan
(39,451 posts)Hates trump. Could possibly vote for Cruz but thinks Rubio is better. Doesn't really like any of them. Lol.
It's true. They had all these candidates and not one to pick from.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)is the nominee. She can't stand any of the R's running and would never vote for Hillary. Thinks Bernie is the only honest one in the bunch. Suspect she's got lots of company.