According to VOX. Where as other polls indicate a ~7 point lead.
The 7 point number makes more sense to me since ~52% of citizens disapprove of Trump and ~45% approve of Trump. Now if the 52% will only get out and vote...
I had an interesting exchange with a FB Friend who said he loves and respects Trump. So I asked him if he thought Trump's lying was acceptable from a politician and providing a good role model for the children in our society. Needless to say he has not answered. :-(
Now this individual seems very ProLife, so I can understand appreciating Trump loading the courts with Conservative Christian Judges and Justices. However is this really enough to respect a man who cheated on his third wife, lies to American citizens daily, etc? Apparently ~45% of Americans think so?
Personally I can not understand it. Here are some of his recent mistruths.
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Single issue voters have a very steep and slippery slope vulnerability. Since nothing else matters to them, on nn other issue do they have credibility. The president is in pay of Russia? But what about X? 200,000 Americans have died? But what about X? The economy has collapsed, yes but what does that matter in comparison to X. You simply can't argue with single issue people because they will say anything to advance their single issue X.
--Hiram
I don't people respect Donald Trump. I don't think they admire him. I don't think people believe that he is a particularly successful business, or that "The Apprentice" wasn't ironic. I think those are, in fact, things that make Donald Trump relatable. People who feel they have been disrespected, are sympathetic to perhaps the most disrespected president in history. No billionaire has ever in history been as downtrodden as Donald Trump.
--Hiram
It seems to me more like a cult following, and I don't understand how someone gets pulled into those either?
This is an interesting piece...
"In most cases, you wouldn't recognize a cult member if you stood behind one in a supermarket check-out line or saw one at a gas pump, both of which you probably have done at one time or another. Cultists look and seem surprisingly normal for the most part.
The question is, why do they do it?
What causes people to surrender themselves willingly - even rapturously - to others even to the point of being willing to die for their leader or their group? What trick of the mind allows a man to hand his wife over to a cult leader for sex in the next room? Why would anyone give away property or money without doubts about such a transaction?
The answer is simple enough. People join cults because they're looking for love and acceptance and because they want answers to the personal problems in their lives.
Unlike most people who find socially acceptable solutions to their problems, these emotionally scarred individuals are willing to go beyond the bounds of normalcy in order to meet their deeply felt needs. They will do whatever it takes to find balm for their wounds and answers to their questions.
At this point in their lives all it takes is a magnetic, problem-solving personality (male or female) along with the perception of a loving, caring family group and the trap is sprung. Once ensnared, cult life for these people seems perfectly normal and right to them and to other insiders, no matter how pathological it appears to outsiders."
In politics some people are very authority oriented. Very often they project this attitude on to others to their bafflement. The fact is, some people are roughly the opposite. They reject automatically anything put forward by authority and authority figures.
--Hiram
But in this case, the people who say they do not like Federal authority are lying on their backs like dogs who want their bellies rubbed...
Nobody is a Republican when perched on a rooftop with the waters rising, at least early on. After a while, if they don't die, they start arguing being perched on the rooftop is the new normal, and that markets should be allowed to lower the waters. Trump will tell you don't let the floods dominate you.
--Hiram
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