If you think Trump just cannot win the nomination …
by digby
Think again. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but check this out:
So, on the surface it looks like Americans in general haven’t completely lost their minds. But look at the GOP. Only 36% of them reject this proposal on its face.
Only a little over a third of one of the major parties in the United States automatically understands that banning people who observe one of the three major world religions from coming into the country is a daft proposal. What makes people think that the two thirds who like it or “don’t know” won’t vote for Trump?
This is, by the way, not unusual in today’s GOP. They’ve shown their true stripes for some time:
Sixty-three percent of Republican voters would support deporting the population of 11 million undocumented immigrants, according to a new CNN/ORC poll taken in the days following Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants being drug dealers and rapists.
Look at these numbers on the combination of deportation and opposition to Syrian refugees which until Trump put it on the menu was mostly confined to the fetid corners of the right wing fever swamp:
Nearly half of GOP-leaning respondents in the poll — 47 percent — both support the deportation of undocumented immigrants and oppose accepting refugees from Syria and other Mideast conflicts. If a GOP-leaning voter supports deportation, there is a 79 percent chance she or he also opposes Syrian refugees, compared with 54 percent if they oppose deportation.
For nihilistic wingnuts who think democracy is a sham and America is supposed to dominated by white men, Trump is their “hope and change” candidate. Don’t underestimate his ability to get them out to vote. I don’t know how many of them there are but it seems to me that it’s foolish to assume he can’t win the GOP nomination. Why not?
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