Clinton Has 12-Point Edge Over Trump in Bloomberg National Poll

[pnwmom]

Source: Bloomberg

Democrat Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead nationally over Republican Donald Trump, whose negatives remain unusually high for a presidential candidate amid early indications that the Orlando terrorist attack has had little direct impact on the 2016 race.

A new Bloomberg Politics national poll shows Clinton leading Trump 49 percent to 37 percent among likely voters in November's election, with 55 percent of those polled saying they could never vote for the real-estate developer and TV personality.

Read the questions and methodology here.

Most national polls in late May and early June showed a closer race, but they were taken before criticism intensified of Trump's charge that a U.S. judge overseeing fraud cases against Trump University is biased because of the judge’s Mexican heritage. Fifty-five percent of likely voters in the new poll said they were very bothered by those comments.


Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-14/bloomberg-politics-national-poll-june-2016

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. So we heard.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2185085

[geek tragedy]

3. why so gloomy? nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Not gloomy -

Just pointing out it was posted earlier. Did you miss it, too?

[geek tragedy]

7. this is LBN, not GD: Primaries.

A lot of people don't read GD: Primaries

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

17. I did. I stay out of GD:Primaries

Like the plague.

[byronius]

2. Beat. The. Crap. Out. Of. That. #$%$%#.

Oh yeah.

[stopbush]

5. But Bernie leads Trump by 12.1%!!!!!!!

C'mon, super delegates! You need to step in and vote for the most-electable candidate!!!teh1

[Night Watchman]

8. Haven't you Seen the latest Unicorn Poll?

Sanders leads Trump by 471.9% (four-hundref-seventy-one-point-nine percent)!

[onehandle]

6. Impotent hairless orange racist non-billionaire goin' down. nt

[Kelvin Mace]

9. Only 12 points?

Against a barking mad racist?

[Sophiegirl]

11. That will change quickly

Once Dems unite and Obama, Biden, Warren, Sanders and others start giving speeches as powerful as our President did today, Trump will be toast. I look forward to watching the GOP burst into flames.

[MadBadger]

32. 12 points is a landslide

[Kelvin Mace]

40. Only in politics.

In real life 38% of the populace supports an unhinged bigot who looks like a first draft of Bozo the Clown.

That says something about either the populace, the candidate or both.

[RAFisher]

10. It's frightening that people think Trump is better at fighting terrorism

However I'm hopeful that it will shift after what happened this week. Trump is just a strongman with no fucking ideas. Clinton tore into him today pointing out his incompetent he really is. That's what's so shocking about this. People think Trump is better at terrorism and still Clinton has a 12 point lead. It seems like Clinton's lead can only continue to rise.

[pnwmom]

12. It was within the margin of error -- but I agree, it's frightening that it is so close.

Scary that so many people are susceptible to his strong man, racist appeals.

[63splitwindow]

19. Hey! He went to military school...

and his nightclub crawling sexual escapades in the '80s were like Viet Nam. Not to mention being in the WWE Hall of Fame.

[Xipe Totec]

30. Hair Captain Trump, of the US Hair Farce. nt

[Cosmocat]

29. The result of DECADES of bullshit

generated by right wing propoganda and parroted by the "liberal" media saying how great Rs on security and how weak liberals/democrats are.

The buffoons of this country have had their heads shrunk so indelibly even someone as abhorrent as Trump can't shake them out of their programming.

[oswaldactedalone]

13. I unskewed this poll

and, very sorry, Trump leads by 6.

[obamanut2012]

14. lolz you guys!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

18. Yeah, I unskewed it even more....Rmoney beats Obama!

[itsrobert]

15. Not good news for the JPR posters who read DU

Thanks for reading my post

[Gore1FL]

37. Are you suggesting JPR members support Trump? nt

[itsrobert]

38. They sure don't support the Democratic Party Nominee

Do they?

[Gore1FL]

39. The Democratic Party doesn't have a nominee yet.

The convention hasn't happened yet. Just like if she wins in November, she won't be president until inauguration.

[Kingofalldems]

16. Trumpies got the Blues for sure.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

20. Someone missed their chance to post a poll

Strange....

[Kingofalldems]

21. Boom. You got it.

[alp227]

22. Poll was conducted June 10-13.

Interesting timing with the Orlando shooting. I wonder how polling would change after Trump's "no Muslims" statement after the shooting.

[greiner3]

23. And when the polls come out post orlando

Trump will flip Hillary's numbers. A couple more will give Trump the presidency

[winstars]

25. I wouldn't bet on that...

[Zambero]

41. People are finding him to be repugnant

Even some who entertained voting for him a while back. He is as unelectable as Barry Goldwater was, and will take an even larger downticket toll on the GOP.

[MrModerate]

24. I'd say the Orlando Attack will have a large effect on the race . . .

In that Trump's response to any serious event requiring a modicum of judgement -- which was already going to be awful -- has now been painted in letters 10 stories high.

[phazed0]

26. Polls don't count, remember? nt

[pnwmom]

27. Polls don't overrule the votes of voters in elections. And online polls

should be viewed suspiciously.

But this wasn't an online poll.

[phazed0]

28. I've been told differently by many just weeks ago.. but OK.. nt

[DrBulldog]

31. That's like saying she has a 12-point edge over Clarebell the Clown.

No great accomplishment.

[jamese777]

35. How about a 13 point lead

on Bernie Sanders:
Hillary Clinton: 16,257,527 (55.6%)
Bernie Sanders: 12,496,702 (42.7%)

Clinton over Sanders by 3,760,825 votes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016

[bucolic_frolic]

33. If you can pray, pray

We've had 2 or 3 fortuitous events so far this year

May our luck hold out until Trump and the GOP are defeated

and put in cages at the zoo

[Tarheel_Dem]

34. K&R!

[AKing]

36. How soon before we start hearing cries of "dishonest polling"?

[eastwestdem]

42. Good to hear! nt