Trump Support Surges Gaining 12 Points, Nearly Catching Clinton In New National Reuters/Ipsos Poll!

[imagine2015]

May 11, 2016
'Terrifying' New National Poll Shows Trump and Clinton Statistically Tied
Last week, Reuters/Ipsos poll had Clinton ahead of Trump by around 13 points. Today, they're running neck-and-neck.
by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

Hillary Clinton continues to lose ground to Donald Trump in national polling, as the latest survey from Reuters/Ipsos shows the two candidates running neck-and-neck.

The poll released Wednesday found 41 percent of likely voters supported Democratic frontrunner Clinton, and 40 percent backed Trump, with 19 percent not decided on either yet. Clinton led Trump by around 13 points in the same poll just one week ago, and thus the results represent a big jump for Trump since GOP hopefuls Ted Cruz and John Kasich withdrew from the race.

In an email to supporters on Wednesday, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver called the recent poll numbers "terrifying."

It's a huge gamble, wrote University of New Hampshire professor Seth Abramson on Wednesday—and one with high stakes.

"The idea that Clinton is in a dead heat with Trump in the three most important battleground states at a time when Trump is the most unpopular major-party candidate in American history is horrifying to Democrats," Abramson argued at the Huffington Post.

He continued:

How horrifying it is cannot be overstated; along with recent polling showing Clinton tied nationally with Trump, and the fact that Hillary's unfavorables are already rising while Trump’s are already falling, and the fact that the Republican Party is uniting dramatically behind Trump precisely because Clinton looks to be the likely Democratic nominee, the fact that Hillary is already struggling in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania against an absolute buffoon of an opponent is causing Democrats to worry that she actually can't win.
"And," Abramson pointed out, "they may well be right."


Read the full article at:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/11/terrifying-new-national-poll-shows-trump-and-clinton-statistically-tied


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REUTERS
May 11, 2016 4:26pm EDT
Exclusive: Trump surges in support, almost even with Clinton in national U.S. poll
NEW YORK | By Chris Kahn

Donald Trump's support has surged and he is now running nearly even with Democrat Hillary Clinton among likely U.S. voters, a dramatic turnaround since he became the Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.

The results could signal a close fight between the two likely White House rivals as Americans make up their minds ahead of the Nov. 8 election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama. As recently as last week, Clinton led Trump by around 13 points in the poll.

In the most recent survey, 41 percent of likely voters supported Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, and 40 percent backed Trump, with 19 percent not decided on either yet, according to the online poll of 1,289 people conducted from Friday to Tuesday. The poll had a credibility interval of about 3 percentage points.

The results reflect a big increase in support for Trump since he knocked out U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Governor John Kasich last week to become the last Republican in the White House race.

Full article at:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-idUSKCN0Y21TN

[trumad]

1. OMG! terrifying!!!!!!!!!

Not.

[doc03]

2. I wouldn't dismiss this as some kind of joke n/t

[LoverOfLiberty]

3. Why, you are practically giddy!

What will you do when Clinton is the nominee and Sanders endorses her?

[imagine2015]

7. If Clinton captures the nomination Trump will crush her in the general election.

Sanders can't stop that with an endorsement of Clinton.

Would that outcome make you giddy?

I think not.

Don't put personal loyalty to Hillary Clinton above defeating Trump.

[trumad]

9. Yawn

You BSers are so silly.

Clap louder...clap louder....

[LoverOfLiberty]

12. Unlike you

I will support the Democratic nominee, be it Clinton or Sanders.

[MisterP]

8. nobody cares about the Clintonistas' object of bawling worship anymore

her only constituency is the corrupt half of a shriveled Democratic party that barely represents a quarter of the registered electorate

and she'll never, EVER care about her votaries one-thousandth as much as the love they pour into her--heck, she cut out whole half-chapters on Honduras and Libya for the paperback version of Hard Choices--not because they were incriminating, but because what she did to those countries hardly even registered for her

[trumad]

10. Tick tock

Tick tock

[coffeeAM]

4. Bernie Keeps Winning, Trumps glides past Clinton over the next month

and the super delegates will have no choice but to put the only candidate that can actually fill more seats then your local coffee shop can hold to face off against Trump.

[840high]

22. Welcome to DU.

[mooseprime]

5. I remember a time when facts

still mattered in our country. It ended with the ascension of rove

[onehandle]

11. 'General election polls before and during the primary are predictive of absolutely nothing.'

Ignore hypothetical matchups in primary season – they also measure nothing. General election polls before and during the primary season have a very wide margin of error. That’s especially the case for candidates who aren’t even in the race and therefore haven’t been treated to the onslaught of skeptical media coverage usually associated with being the candidate.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/harrys-guide-to-2016-election-polls

[floppyboo]

13. Sanders smacks down Trump 45-32! There is an answer...

Maybe I'm blind, but can't find #'s for Sanders more recent in reuters than this. Strange, not!

April 22, 2016


1,870 Respondents
Bernie Sanders 45.2%
Donald Trump 32.0%
Neither 9.1%
Wouldn't vote 8.0%
Don't know 5.8%

[anotherproletariat]

14. Makes sense...he has had the lions share of the news cycle in the past week, and

the right is starting to rally around him. Thanks to Sanders, our side is still bickering and many people who are polled would say they are for Trump, just to harm Hillary's numbers.

[imagine2015]

16. "many people polled say they are for Trump, just to harm Hillary's numbers." Can you back that up?

With some actual evidence from credible sources?

I'll be looking for the evidence if you don't decide to disappear after making that claim.

[anotherproletariat]

17. Only from comments made by Bernie supporters here. There is a great deal of hate and vitriol

coming from that side, and people who pull up old, debunked, right wing talking points to attack Hillary are likely to do just about anything.

[Fawke Em]

18. An ongoing FBI investigation isn't an "old, debunked, right wing talking point."

[anotherproletariat]

20. I'll give you that...it's a new right wing attack...that like the others won't find anything

Think about it logically...as Sanders supporters always say, Hillary pretty much knew she would run for president again after losing in 2008. There is no way she would have taken any risks to her future candidacy. She is like any older person, who doesn't know technology well, and took some bad advice. There is no way they will be able to show that she knowingly set up anything to deceive or harm anyone, because she didn't.

[840high]

21. Oh please. With her shady

past history I don't believe this. I'm older than Hillary and know to follow rules.

[anotherproletariat]

23. She did follow the rules. She was given permission to have her own server, just like

previous SOS had done. The only thing that will solve this dispute is when the FBI report is released...so I guess we shall see...

[840high]

24. If nothing else she went against

Obama and hired Sid.

[apnu]

15. National polls are bullshit when we have the EC.

Even more so in May.

Even more so before the primaries are over.

[timlot]

19. Polls drove me crazy in 2012. The lesson I learned...

I've already decided I'm voting for Hillary or Bernie. No need to even pay attention anymore to the day to day 24hr news channels because it will just make you miserable. They need this race to be negative and close to get the most eyeballs. So the polls are going to start reflecting what the media wants them to. I'm just one vote like everyone else. Made up my mind already so now I've decide to indulge myself in sports (nba,mlb,nfl) and any other entertainment thats going to make me laugh. Hell we're all going to die anyway what does it even matter.