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Fozzledick

(3,860 posts)
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 12:14 PM Jul 2016

Donald Trump is not qualified to be president. And the American people know it.

As the GOP convention gets underway in Cleveland today, three national polls released over the weekend showed Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump: A CNN poll putting Clinton up by 49-42; an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll putting her up by 46-41; and a Washington Post/ABC News poll putting her up by 47-43.

But buried beneath the toplines is evidence of another dynamic that gets at something important about the state of this race: While both Clinton and Trump are very unpopular, large majorities in two of these polls believe that only one of them is qualified for the presidency, and equally large majorities believe that the other one is not.

The new WaPo poll finds, for instance, that Americans say by 59-39 that Clinton is “qualified to serve as president,” but they also say by 60-37 that Trump is “not qualified to serve as president.”



The WaPo poll also finds that 59 percent of Americans say that Clinton has the “better personality and temperament to serve effectively as president,” while only 28 percent of Americans say that about Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/07/18/donald-trump-is-not-qualified-to-be-president-and-the-american-people-know-it/

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Donald Trump is not qualified to be president. And the American people know it. (Original Post) Fozzledick Jul 2016 OP
But, but...Hillary isn't likeable...she's dishonest... stopbush Jul 2016 #1
And she's the Anti-Christ, sarae Jul 2016 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2016 #3
Don the Con is singularly unqualified to be President. teamster633 Jul 2016 #4

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
1. But, but...Hillary isn't likeable...she's dishonest...
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 12:41 PM
Jul 2016

she's a lesbian who killed her male lover, Vince Foster.

sarae

(3,284 posts)
2. And she's the Anti-Christ,
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 12:45 PM
Jul 2016

on top of everything else...

and, and, even though she's beating Trump in every recent poll, she's obviously gonna lose.

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teamster633

(2,029 posts)
4. Don the Con is singularly unqualified to be President.
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 01:02 PM
Jul 2016

I fervently hope that our party has the courage to run a "Daisy" ad in order to make it crystal clear to voters all that is at stake in this election.

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