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Well, this is depressing.
But while such #Trumpgrets do exist, they are aberrations: Only 3 percent of Trump voters regret their decision and fewer than 1 percent wish they had voted for Hillary Clinton last fall according to a new poll from Penn States McCourtney Institute of Democracy and YouGov.
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(52,319 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)If 1% of Trump voters had voted for Hillary on November 8, she wins PA, MI, WI, FL and NC. If another 2 percent voted 3rd party or stayed home, it's a huge victory and Democrats may have taken the Senate
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)That 1% would have been enough more than likely.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)It's human nature to double down on bad choices. I have little doubt that eventually a lot of the deluded will eventually see a way to bail from their choice with a bit of dignity.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)Meaning a lot of people are so embarrassed they won't admit they voted for him now.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)That's the GOP base.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)71,000 vote difference in 3 states.....but this is only 2 months into the presidency and the fact that trump is a boldface liar still hasn't sunk in....but its slowly happening..
redo poll in 2 months....and in 6 months and in a year
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)or embark on history's largest cultist group deprogramming. Maybe we can use rallies like twitler does already?
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Unfortunately I am in contact with Trumpkins every day. They all seem blissfully ignorant of any trump failure and believe Democrats are just still being sore losers. I hear every excuse in the book. I have grown weary of trying to educate them on the falsehoods they have been brainwashed to believe. The worst of them really believe that president Obama is trying to undermine the tangerine asshole.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)As they lay dying in a ditch thanks to Dumpcare, unemployed,starving,broke and homeless....
The last words out of their hate enraged minds will be...whatever they last heard from fox news/hate radio/reich wing preachers.
F those stupid bastards!
Caliman73
(11,744 posts)The conclusion is that Trump's electoral coalition is holding together. His electoral coalition represents 27% of eligible voters, of which he would lose another 3%. While it is sad and unfortunate that there is a little less than a quarter of eligible voters who still support him, it should not be depressing. It means that 75% of eligible voters would not vote for him.
What we need to do is figure out how to get at those 75% of which we already have about 30% solid. We need to motivate about 60% of the people who did not vote in 2016 to come out and vote Democratic in 2018 and 2020 and we can start to undo the damage being done by Trump and the GOP.
Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)This shows around 10% who voted for him are so embarrassed they want nothing to do with him. The remaining 37% are fucking nuts and love all the idiotic chaos he is causing. Not surprising.
MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)the line attributed to him seems very apt:
"It is easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled."