AP-GFK POLL: REPUBLICANS VIEW DONALD TRUMP AS MOST ELECTABLE
Source: AP/Huffington Post
Republican voters view Donald Trump as their strongest general election candidate, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that highlights the sharp contrast between the party's voters and its top professionals regarding the billionaire businessman's ultimate political strength.
Seven in 10 Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters say Trump could win in November 2016 if he is nominated, and that's the most who say so of any candidate. By comparison, 6 in 10 say the same for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who, like Trump, has tapped into the powerful wave of antiestablishment anger defining the early phases of the 2016 contest.
"It's the lifelong establishment politicians on both sides that rub me the wrong way," said registered Republican Joe Selig, a 60-year-old carpenter from Vallejo, California. "I think Trump is more electable. He's strong. We need strength these days."
Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AP_POLL_GOP_2016?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-25-08-37-25
"I think Trump is more electable. He's strong. We need strength these days."
ut oh.... I think I've heard this refrain before...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
Funny and yet terrifying!
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)The Italian Royal family (the House of Savoy), who owned most of Italy's wealth at the time and used him to do all their dirty work.
Some things never change.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The people who got the United States into the present situation are the same people who benefit from the situation being what it is. Time to rethink strategy, including who rules -- runs -- the Democratic Party, and the rest of Washington. Personally, I side with Democracy.
Baron DeRothschild and Sen. Prescott Bush enjoy a moment and an official photograph together, ca. 1954.
How a Concentration of Wealth and Political Power Undermines Democracy
Who Rules the World?
by BENJAMIN DANGL
CounterPunch, Nov. 20, 2014
EXCERPT...
Just as most of the worlds wealth is in the hands of a few people, according to a recent article in the academic journal Climatic Change, two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions were produced by just 90 companies, with Chevron, Exxon and BP leading the list as the biggest polluters. Half of these emissions were from the past 25 years.
There are thousands of oil, gas and coal producers in the world, Richard Heede, the author of the journal article, told the Guardian. But the decision makers, the CEOs, or the ministers of coal and oil if you narrow it down to just one person, they could all fit on a Greyhound bus or two.
Confronting climate change requires a systemic transformation of how our economies are run and who runs them. Part of this radical change will involve disempowering the global 1% and the disaster-producing industries they profit from.
Across the US, we are living in a dream state; crisis is the new normal. In the face of global catastrophe, the leading political parties of the country typically offer more business as usual, meaning more corporate power to fuel democracy, more capitalism to fight inequality, more war to fight for peace, and more pollution to fight climate change.
We cannot depend on the 1% of the world to lead us away from disaster they caused our global crises in the first place, continue to profit from them, and cannot bring about solutions from the top-down. It has to be the peoples movements leading the way from below, deconstructing capitalism and building a better world from the bottom-up.
SOURCE: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/20/who-rules-the-world/
From FDR through LBJ's Great Society, life got better and the Middle Class grew in size and power. The rest of the time, it's pretty much a steady state of the Rich getting Richer and the Poor getting Poorer -- which is where the Middle Class is going in the wealthiest times in human history.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Dear Lord, it's so much more interesting than fiction.
Thanks as always for the great reads, Octafish.
frizzled
(509 posts)Though I'd shudder to think who he'd appoint to the Supreme Court.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)That'll have the Donald running for the nearest exit.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)why else would he maintain that epic combover if not for an unusual fear of baldness? Yes, there is a word for this:
http://common-phobias.com/phalacro/phobia.htm
forest444
(5,902 posts)Or, in this case, laugh alike.
MrWendel
(1,881 posts)Should be a cake walk for any Democratic Nominee.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)And when Democrats win 40 states, I hope they continue to believe it's because they just. Weren't. Conservative. Enough.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Vinca
(50,261 posts)He agrees with Carson that Medicare should go in favor of health savings accounts. Any politician who thinks he can win on abolishing one of the 2 most popular programs in the country's history is in for a shock. And Medicare-age people always vote.
ffr
(22,669 posts)Vote in great enough numbers to drown them out from this time forward. The rest is just noise.
NO
MORE
REPUBLIS.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Whatever they're smoking, I want some.
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)I guess the GOP voters are still operating in the same hate radio/faux news bubble as they did in 2012. They support candidates that have no chance of winning a national election. That is FACT and COMMON SENSE. Something they have problems with. This keeps up we will hold on to the WH for a looooong time. This is great.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)If you assume HRC will be the Dem nominee, than as of today, the polls support the headline, Trump would seem to be the most electable Repub.
uawchild
(2,208 posts)I wonder about us as a nation sometimes. Trump. shiver.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)If I was Republican, I'd vote for The Donald. He's the best they have.
AKing
(511 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)Presbyterians aren't all that bad..
kimbutgar
(21,127 posts)In the real world they don't realize trump is considered a joke.
olddots
(10,237 posts)we can all die entertained .
Cosmocat
(14,563 posts)I really don't see Carson as a threat, just not enough personality or power there to muscle through his stupid.
But, Trump, this country IS stupid enough to elect him ...
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)these crazies.
uawchild
(2,208 posts)Oops, I mean Dr. Ben Carson.
"Ben Carson Has Plenty of Energy, Once Tried to Stab a Guy"
http://gawker.com/ben-carson-has-plenty-of-energy-once-tried-to-stab-a-g-1738615515
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)It will not be Prozac Carson. Have you seen a guy with less energy...it looks like it is a struggle for him to move his lips...but all those lies must make for heavy lifting.
Sometimes I think all of this is not real and I am in a dream but folks in 1930's Germany must have felt the same way before that final election.