Poll: Clinton would easily beat Trump

[Geee]

The Hill:

Democrat Hillary Clinton would defeat Republican presidential rival Donald Trump by double digits in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a poll released Wednesday.

 

Clinton would edge out Trump by 13 points in a one-on-one vote, 51 percent to 38 percent, in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey.

 

Trump, the controversial GOP front-runner, would lose even more soundly to Bernie Sanders should the Independent Vermont senator secure the Democratic nomination.

 

Sanders bests Trump by 18 points, 55 to 37 percent. Sanders picked up a surprise win over Clinton in Michigan on Tuesday, though Clinton expanded her overall delegate lead.

 

By comparison, Trump's rivals Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) both fare better against the Democratic front-runner in the latest polling. Cruz and Rubio have stressed their electability in the GOP race.

 

[SrWoodchuck]

A poll by NBC News & Wall Street Journal (Progressives+Establishment) predicts (using what methodology exactly & skewed by testing what disparate group of voters) that Trump will lose to a Socialist or a Progressive criminal by double digits? Wow. Who'd a thunk it?

 

I am not a Trump guy. I like Cruz for all the marbles...but this seems like some really lame polling propaganda. It appears to be a scorched earth attempt to undercut a popular favorite. The fact that all Trump can say is that the US will be great again & build a high wall...without any platform or policy containing factual evidence for same...is much scarier.

 

Another quote is that Trump can only muster 35%-38% of Republicans, but he's also drawing Independents & Democrats in pretty good numbers. Looking from a Democrat perspective...there are certainly "Old Time" Democrats, or Reagan Democrats, that cannot vote for a straight Socialist or Killary. Who, besides Kasich, looks good to them?

[RandyM]

I agree there's little substance or specifics in what Trump says... but there's little substance or specifics in what ANY of the candidates are saying... Republican or Democrat. Nothing but canned sound bites and harping.

[Geee]

A poll by NBC News & Wall Street Journal (Progressives+Establishment) predicts (using what methodology exactly & skewed by testing what disparate group of voters) that Trump will lose to a Socialist or a Progressive criminal by double digits? Wow. Who'd a thunk it?

 

I am not a Trump guy. I like Cruz for all the marbles...but this seems like some really lame polling propaganda. It appears to be a scorched earth attempt to undercut a popular favorite. The fact that all Trump can say is that the US will be great again & build a high wall...without any platform or policy containing factual evidence for same...is much scarier.

 

Another quote is that Trump can only muster 35%-38% of Republicans, but he's also drawing Independents & Democrats in pretty good numbers. Looking from a Democrat perspective...there are certainly "Old Time" Democrats, or Reagan Democrats, that cannot vote for a straight Socialist or Killary. Who, besides Kasich, looks good to them?

 

The Dems would probably do the same as most Republicans I know - not vote. I am really trying to talk them in to at least going to the polls and vote for other Republican candidates, or we are going to lose the whole ball of wax. They feel the same as I do I guess. If I was a Democrat, I could do as they all do, vote for anyone with a D after their name. I can not vote for anyone who is a crook and not principled and has no core. Voting for T is the same to me as voting for H.

[Geee]

I agree there's little substance or specifics in what Trump says... but there's little substance or specifics in what ANY of the candidates are saying... Republican or Democrat. Nothing but canned sound bites and harping.

Saying and doing are two different things, Trump has a looooong history for anyone who cares to research it.

[Geee]

Why Team Clinton's not sweating Trump

 

Joel Benenson is a world-class worrier, but he isn’t especially worried about Donald Trump in the fall.

 

Trump isn't just freaking out Republicans these days -- Democrats, panicked by his unstoppable rise in the primaries, see him as an ochre ogre capable of undoing Barack Obama's legacy and undermining the civility supporting American democracy.

 

Trump-phobia has infected many people in Hillary Clinton’s extended orbit – especially her notoriously jelly-kneed donors — and they are dutifully fretting over Trump’s dark-alley debate style, his promise to napalm the Clintons with personal attacks and, above all, his magical-realism appeal to angry Rust Belt whites.

 

Benenson, the Clinton campaign’s bearded principal pollster and chief strategist, can't even bring himself to pay lip-service to Trump, whom he sees as a one-man Democratic turnout machine and a turn-off switch to moderates in both parties. His analysis of the 2016 landscape leads him to this conclusion that Trump has virtually no path to the presidency (He won't say the same thing about Bernie Sanders) and Trump presents Clinton with renewed opportunities in purple states – especially North Carolina and Arizona.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/off-message-joel-benenson-2016-220706