LOL@LIBTARDS.COM Wrote:
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> It has been almost exactly one year since
> President Trump shocked the world by defeating
> Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. And he might
> well do it again today.
>
> Confronted with the events of the past 12 months
> and even Trump's unprecedented unpopularity — 59
> percent disapprove of his presidency — a new
> poll shows that 2016 voters look as though they'd
> still pick Trump, albeit about as narrowly as they
> did before.
>
> The Washington Post-ABC News poll asked
> respondents how they'd vote in a redo of the 2016
> election, and, if anything, Clinton seems to have
> lost more ground than Trump. Among those who
> voted, 46 percent say they picked Clinton last
> year and 43 percent picked Trump — a slightly
> more favorable sample than the 2016 election, in
> which Clinton won the popular vote by two
> percentage points. But in a head-to-head rematch,
> Clinton's support drops even more than Trump's
> does, and they wind up in a 40-40 tie. Given that
> Trump overperformed in key, blue-leaning swing
> states, that means he'd probably have won again.
>
> Interestingly, Clinton actually seems to have lost
> that ground because of disillusioned Democrats.
> Even as the Trump presidency has unified the
> Democratic Party against him and his policies,
> just 72 percent of Democrats said they would vote
> for Clinton in a rematch — vs. the 84 percent
> who said they did vote for Clinton last year.
> Trump's share of the Republican Party, meanwhile,
> dropped just five points from 89 percent who said
> they did vote for him to 84 percent who said they
> would do it again.
>
> (Almost all of the Democrats who would no longer
> vote for Clinton would opt for a third choice —
> 9 percent go to Gary Johnson, Jill Stein or
> someone else — while the others would not pick a
> candidate. Trump does not pick up any of this
> support)
>
> Clinton also loses 10 points in terms of support
> from nonwhite voters. While 64 percent say they
> voted for her, just 54 percent said they would do
> so in a rematch.
>
> The utility of this question is, of course,
> limited. Clinton seems to be done with running for
> office, and there will not be a redo of the 2016
> election. The question is purely hypothetical.
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