The American people agree with Clinton: Trump is a bigot. This new poll confirms it.
Source: WashPost
The American people agree with Clinton: Trump is a bigot. This new poll confirms it.
By Greg Sargent
September 12 at 9:31 AM
(David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)
.................And so, on Fox, Trump had this to say about Clintons deplorables comment: I think its the single biggest mistake of the political season.
But the new Post/ABC News poll released over the weekend raises questions about whether Clintons remarks were really a political mistake. If Clintons goal was to force a public discussion of Trumps bigotry and chauvinism, well, the Post poll finds that a large majority of Americans agree with her that Trump is biased against women and minorities, including among the voter groups that Trump needs to improve among in order to win.
The Post poll, which found Clinton leading Trump by five points among likely voters nationwide, also found that 60 percent of Americans believe Trump is biased against women and minorities, with 48 percent believing that strongly. According to the crosstabs, college educated whites believe this by 57-41, and college educated white women a crucial demographic that the campaigns are fighting over believe it by 61-39.
Whats more, majorities of college educated white men and non-college white women also believe this. Indeed, as James Downie puts it: At this point, the only group of voters that doesnt think Trump is biased is white men without a college degree........................
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/12/the-american-people-agree-with-clinton-trump-is-a-bigot-this-new-poll-confirms-it/?postshare=2331473687380601&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.dfd4e50ea4eb
I watched about 10-15 minutes of morning joe this am before I shut the tube off. Any news outlet talking of this poll in relation to Hillary's basket of deplorables???
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Clinton: Half of Trump supporters fit in 'what I call the basket of deplorables'
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"To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the 'basket of deplorables,'" Hillary Clinton said at a New York fundraiser on Sept. 9. "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that, and he has lifted them up." (Video: The Washington Post / Photo: AP)
Yallow
(1,926 posts)Go ahead and complain Trump.
Anyone with half a brain knows a huuuuuuge percentage of your supporters are sick puppies.
It's not your fault though.
They were sick before you gave them a voice.
Should they have a say in running our government? The racists?
Hell no.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Problem is, he gave them a voice, one that resonates deeply inside that midbrain that was borrowed and transplanted from a syphilitic, rabid, beer loving, lobotomies vole that serves as their brain center.
Ronbeaux
(35 posts)...Trump is just the bullhorn that is delivering it and cranking up the volume of their delusions.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)GreydeeThos
(958 posts)LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)Response to riversedge (Original post)
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)It's a good hobby.
How did you find DU? Someday I hope for an answer.
AllyCat
(16,189 posts)I wish we could see old posts after they are removed. Maybe after the election we can go back to that system.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)comments deleted over and over.
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)Laser102
(816 posts)is why you support the racist tick. He's singing your song. If you support him because life has kicked you around and you think he'll make it better, ask the people who have worked for him and been stiffed. Either way we see you. We know who you are. We won't be fooled.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)In their heart of hearts, most bigots simply believe they are "correct": Muslims are terrorists, black people are thugs, Hispanics are lazy, and all the rest of that racist claptrap.
It infuriates them to no end that calling someone by the N-word is not welcome in polite society.
Laser102
(816 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)appeal to them?
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)I'm so happy to get this news that they did the poll and it supported Hillary. Each time she calls him out and he feigns shock, I hope they do a poll so that everyone can see this country is not lost.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Not that I disagree with her, but I'm not running for President.
rivegauche
(601 posts)They're the ones constantly screaming about "not being politically correct". Well, HRC dished out a big helping of some not-politically-correct dumplings and they can fucking eat it. They ARE bigots, they ARE deplorable and good for her for calling them what they are.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Volaris
(10,272 posts)When we sit down to dinner with barbarians?
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)rivegauche
(601 posts)I'll offer some: Ignorant, hateful, bigoted ASSHOLES.
calimary
(81,318 posts)She called 'em out - for what they ARE. They're the ones who don't like having to be politically correct, so OKAY then! Game ON! His side is crammed full of racists, misogynists, xenophobes, Islamophobes, those who hate people of color, gays, anyone who isn't white, some sort of Southern-Baptist derivative, and preferably male.
I find what I have seen of them and their behavior and their acting out - to be UTTERLY deplorable! Deplorable is a perfect word for what and who they are. Many times we on this side of the aisle, here, and at other sites, have wondered openly - WHO THE FUCK is it who votes for a candidate like Donald Trump? WHO ON EARTH thinks that's Presidential? WHO CAN POSSIBLY support the things he says, the "promises" he makes, the ignorance he repeatedly displays - that would be brought to bear on any decision-making regarding issues of great national and international importance - even life and death questions? Maybe even planetary life and death questions!
And I'm sorry. I know this sounds intolerant, but I think their behavior tells us all that they're jerks. Angry, mean-spirited, closed-minded, SMALL-minded, fearful, ill-informed and WILLFULLY ignorant, bullying, thoughtless jerks. When you let the teabagger movement fester, THIS is the result you're apt to get. It's not good for ANYBODY, or ANYTHING, in this country.
I used to tell my kids - "if you act like a jerk, you're gonna be treated like a jerk." Seems to me that advice holds for more than just little kids learning the basics of how to behave themselves. Hillary just, in effect, called 'em what they are. She says "deplorables." I lean toward "jerks" also.
llmart
(15,540 posts)Your description of the deplorables.........perfect.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)WhiteHat
(129 posts)Trump is a heartless, thoughtless, thieving pig who only gets away with his scams because his victims can't match his legal expenditures.
In a truly just society, Trump would have been jailed decades ago.
Portland_Anni
(164 posts)That is just one of many common sense reasons to profoundly distrust Putin and take him to task. Trump is quite obviously a bigot.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)When Hillary says "deplorables", it's the worst thing ever and she should be DQ'd as a candidate
The double standard for Republicans vs. Democrats is fucking obscene