Republican Voters Kind Of Hate All Their Choices
6:19 PM MAR 3, 2016
By NATE SILVER
... On Thursday, Mitt Romney, the previous Republican presidential nominee and the closest thing the GOP has to a party elder, denounced Trump in the strongest possible terms. Trump responded by making what sounded to me like a blow job reference ...
... as spectacular as the clash between Trump and Republican “party elites” has become, the coverage of it tends to obscure another .. important part of the story. Trump does not just divide rank-and-file voters from Republican poo-bahs. He’s also extremely divisive among Republican voters, much more so than a typical front-runner. In exit polls so far, only 49 percent of Republican voters say they would be satisfied with Trump as their nominee ... But compounding the GOP’s problems, Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz would leave only slightly more Republican voters happy ...
The exit polls have asked Republican voters in seven states .. whether they’d be satisfied if each of Cruz, Rubio and Trump won the nomination ... On average, just 49 percent of these actual Republican voters said they’d be satisfied with Trump. The numbers for the other two candidates were better, but not by much: 53 percent of voters said they’d be satisfied with Rubio, and 51 percent with Cruz ...
Not only is Trump’s 49 percent satisfaction rating lower than any recent party nominee’s, it’s also lower than almost all the losers’. Rick Santorum in 2012 was more widely acceptable than Trump, for example ...
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republican-voters-kind-of-hate-all-their-choices/
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