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Attorney in Texas

(3,373 posts)
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 03:45 PM Mar 2016

CBS News: Florida voters 'fed up' with Clinton speak out

link to Florida voters "fed up" with Trump and Clinton speak out; excerpt:

Voters in the key swing state of Florida are sharing their frustration about their options in the 2016 presidential race. A focus group comprised of Republican and Democratic voters who oppose both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump offered a revealing look at the anger toward the front-runners in both parties.

Clinton and Trump share the distinction of being among the least-liked candidates.

"I would rather not vote than vote for either one of these candidates," one woman told CBS News contributor and Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who led the group at the Orlando Public Library. "And it pains me to say that, because I feel it's my right as a member of this democratic society to be able to vote. But given those two candidates, I can't vote for either one of them."... "I just think that none of the-- either party doesn't deserve my vote. They're not giving me what I feel we need as a country," another woman explained. "So why give the support to someone who's not gonna do what I need them to do for me and my family?"

"I don't believe Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton really care about the American people. I don't trust either of them. I don't think they are presidential," one man said. ... "The thing about Hillary Clinton is that all of her flaws are verifiable and provable. ... "There is a great opportunity for someone. And that person had better come forward fast, because if the Republicans put Donald Trump up, and if the Democrats put Hillary Clinton, it will be the worst turnout election ever," a woman said.

Probably half of the Sanders supporters I know are actively interested in Plan B if Sanders cannot overcome the delegates Hillary won in the Bible Belt (of course, he's winning the delegate court outside of the Bible Belt). I personally do not think Plan B is a viable option because Sanders is not interested and because Jill Stein's math is wrong (she is counting the super delegates now but they don't vote until this summer and few will defy the people's choice so Sanders' goal is to win a majority of pledged delegates without regard to the super delegates).
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CBS News: Florida voters 'fed up' with Clinton speak out (Original Post) Attorney in Texas Mar 2016 OP
Funny how they voted for her. hrmjustin Mar 2016 #1
Keep telling yourself that until November... Human101948 Mar 2016 #3
Keep telling yourself Sanders is going to win, hrmjustin Mar 2016 #6
Didn't say any such thing...I am envisioning her getting the nomination... Human101948 Mar 2016 #8
Apparently, she didn't. floriduck Mar 2016 #4
Well a lot of people did. hrmjustin Mar 2016 #7
Frank Luntz.Now that's desperation.nt sufrommich Mar 2016 #2
I'm not sure that CBS News is all that desperate. You might not like Luntz (I don't either) but CBS Attorney in Texas Mar 2016 #11
This farleftlib Mar 2016 #5
Meh. Frank Luntz hand picked focus groups. yellowcanine Mar 2016 #9
K&R dana_b Mar 2016 #10
Oh, FFS. Frank Luntz? Why not just get quotes from Trump and Karl Rove? This is assinine. Squinch Mar 2016 #12
See how "fed up" they get with 20+year rulings from an ultra right SCOTUS. oasis Mar 2016 #13
Kicked . nt MaeScott Mar 2016 #14
And yet she won by a landslide book_worm Mar 2016 #15
 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
3. Keep telling yourself that until November...
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 03:48 PM
Mar 2016

I don't feel so confident about her high negatives.

(Doesn't matter whether she deserves them or not.)

 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
8. Didn't say any such thing...I am envisioning her getting the nomination...
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 03:56 PM
Mar 2016

and then finding on election day that all those negative ratings made a Republican win the White House.

But I hope not.

The truth is that the right wingers have been successful in raising her negatives into record territory. How is that going to change in the next 7 months?

 

floriduck

(2,262 posts)
4. Apparently, she didn't.
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 03:49 PM
Mar 2016

Not everyone was as vote aware as she was. But she can still write-in Bernie Sanders.

Attorney in Texas

(3,373 posts)
11. I'm not sure that CBS News is all that desperate. You might not like Luntz (I don't either) but CBS
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 04:11 PM
Mar 2016

News has an enormous audience that doesn't know Luntz from Haim Saban.

dana_b

(11,546 posts)
10. K&R
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 04:10 PM
Mar 2016

"There is a great opportunity for someone. And that person had better come forward fast, because if the Republicans put Donald Trump up, and if the Democrats put Hillary Clinton, it will be the worst turnout election ever," a woman said."

mmmm hmmmm...

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