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thesquanderer

(11,990 posts) Fri May 6, 2016, 09:51 AM May 2016

"Poll: Most Voters Heading To Polls To Prevent The Other Party’s Candidate"

in a poll about Trump vs. Clinton in the general, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll_us_572c5399e4b0bc9cb046564a

About 47 percent of Trump supporters said they backed him primarily because they don’t want Clinton to win. Another 43 percent said their primary motivation was a liking for Trump’s political positions, while 6 percent said they liked him personally.

Similar responses prevailed among Clinton supporters.

About 46 percent said they would vote for her mostly because they don’t want to see a Trump presidency, while 40 percent said they agreed with her political positions, and 11 percent said they liked her personally.

The April 29-May 5 poll included 469 likely Trump voters and 599 likely Clinton voters. It has a credibility interval of 5 percentage points.

The headline is wrong, as in both cases, the figures they quote do not equate to "most"... not just because the numbers are below 50%, but the numbers don't even represent the majority of those who expressed an opinion. That is, for Trump, 49% are supporting him for some reason other than stopping Hillary (more than the 47% who are supporting him for that reason), and for Hillary, 51% are supporting her for some reason other than stopping Trump.

Still, the poll is noteworthy as further evidence of what we already knew, these are two highly disliked candidates. Fortunately for us, the Republicans are putting up someone with even higher unfavorables than Hillary.

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"Poll: Most Voters Heading To Polls To Prevent The Other Party’s Candidate" (Original Post) thesquanderer May 2016 OP

Cue the Lee Greenwood... NightWatcher May 2016 #1

Pretty sick GE if that happens. Sick. Bernie for President. The only honesty and trustworthy bkkyosemite May 2016 #2

Voters have voted against the opposition candidate since this country began. Trust Buster May 2016 #3

Maybe next election cycle the parties will run someone the people like! Silver_Witch May 2016 #4

Gotta admit, this will be a truly uninspired election. marmar May 2016 #5

The PERFECT Argument For A 3rd Or Even 4th Party ChoppinBroccoli May 2016 #6

my whole problem with "people hate hillary" okieinpain May 2016 #7

Was she running back then? jwirr May 2016 #8

hell yeah she was running and everybody okieinpain May 2016 #12

Sounds like an open primary. Have Democratic friends in Ohio who voted for Kasich to hurt Trump. n/t pampango May 2016 #9

There is a difference between bad and worse, and it is far sharper than that between good and better KamaAina May 2016 #10

'twas ever thus fred v May 2016 #11

Too bad. We could have had someone we would have been proud to vote for davidn3600 May 2016 #13

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

1. Cue the Lee Greenwood...

Reply to thesquanderer (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 09:52 AM

May 2016

And I'm proud to be an aMurican...

bkkyosemite

(5,792 posts)

2. Pretty sick GE if that happens. Sick. Bernie for President. The only honesty and trustworthy

Reply to thesquanderer (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 09:53 AM

May 2016

candidate.

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)

3. Voters have voted against the opposition candidate since this country began.

Reply to thesquanderer (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 09:56 AM

May 2016

Sure I liked Obama but I equally disliked McCain and Romney. Those that spend their time waxing philosophically on the obvious should go take a nice walk in a local park and appreciate nature as a way of resetting one's perspective.

Silver_Witch

(1,820 posts)

4. Maybe next election cycle the parties will run someone the people like!

Reply to thesquanderer (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 09:59 AM

May 2016

I doubt it but maybe they will learn.

marmar

(77,084 posts)

5. Gotta admit, this will be a truly uninspired election.

Reply to thesquanderer (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 10:00 AM

May 2016

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,784 posts)

6. The PERFECT Argument For A 3rd Or Even 4th Party

Reply to thesquanderer (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 11:12 AM

May 2016

If there were anybody out there viable enough to start up another Party and actually be a threat to win, this would be the year to do it. Just to use him as an example (not because I think he could or even should do it), it's kind of the same situation as when Jesse Ventura got elected Minnesota's Governor (i.e. there was a large segment of the populace that didn't like either candidate, and he represented something different).

Ross Perot and Ralph Nader didn't have the gravitas to be serious contenders, but certainly there must be someone out there who could make a 3rd Party run this year and actually be a big enough threat to be considered something other than just some "outsider nutball" throwing a Hail Mary. Because ultimately, I'd love it if we had 3 or even 4 parties, all on equal footing every election. Give the people some REAL choices.

okieinpain

(9,397 posts)

7. my whole problem with "people hate hillary"

Reply to thesquanderer (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 12:44 PM

May 2016

is why wasn't this being discussed after 2012. why wait to now for everybody to go "anybody but hillary".

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

8. Was she running back then?

Reply to okieinpain (Reply #7)

Fri May 6, 2016, 02:01 PM

May 2016

okieinpain

(9,397 posts)

12. hell yeah she was running and everybody

Reply to jwirr (Reply #8)

Tue May 10, 2016, 06:29 PM

May 2016

was talking about "who's gone stop her now". I didn't see any post back then going "hell nah, not hillary". now it's like she a spawn of the devil or something.