A Bare Majority Still Want Trump Nominated

[DonViejo]

A new CNN/ORC poll finds that 51% of Republican voters want Donald Trump nominated at the GOP convention next month while 48% want someone else.

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/06/21/a-bare-majority-still-want-trump-nominated/

[still_one]

1. Which means half of the republicans want him

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The CNN/ORC poll must have polled orcs.

[lapfog_1]

3. The real problem is that the "someone else"

isn't one person... it's 12 or 15... and no single person gets more than 12% in that same poll... most get less than 5%.

[geek tragedy]

4. and that person would want to be the one left holding the bag nt

[Lord Magus]

6. Yep, that's exactly the problem the Repugs face.

Even if they get to the point that a majority of their base don't want Trump to be the nominee, that doesn't give them any alternative candidate who would have broad enough appeal to overcome the backlash inherent to parachuting in somebody other than the primary winner. If anti-Trump Repugs had that sort of unity behind a single candidate, Trump would've never won the nomination in the first place.

[stevenleser]

5. That's really perfect for us. We want it to stay just like that.

With half of Republican voters wanting someone else, that is a terrible position to be in going into a general election.

But its not bad enough to be able to pull the plug.

Like I said, its perfect.