Flopper
Diamond Member
I think those extremes are within the parties. 43% of voters now identify themselves as independents. Unlike party members, these voters are not likely to be swayed by primary candidates. They adopt a favorite after the candidates in general election are known. They are not eligible to vote in primaries and not generally polled in primary polls. About half are politically engaged; that is, they actual read government and political news. The rest jump to sports, entertainment, and weather and have little interest in politics until a few months before the general election. However, the independents today are the voters who decide the elections.I went back to do it but it would not let me. Now on topic, can you not see that the general dis-like of what has been politics by BOTH sides is so dis-liked that the Trump AND Sanders support is a call from the people to the PARTIES to start listening to the people?Yeah, I blew the title. Had someone talking to me as I was writing. That never works out for me.No GOP member really wants Bush anymore then any DNC member truly wants Hillary. What if the Bush and Hillary numbers were the degree of sleaze in the party? The wonks the bots and the flunkie?
Now Bush's number inside the party is about 9%. By the time you take away the wonks the bots and the flunkies you got zip for him. That 9% equals the sleaze factor IN the party.
SO, Hillary's in party number is 31% and that is about the same amount of sleaze in the DNC.
THAT explains their beating in the off year and why Bernie AND Trump are doing so well. BOTH have left the core and struck out new ground.
Bush and Clinton are nothing more then the sleaze meters for their parties.
Uhm, ok:
View attachment 48631
So, how are we suppposed to "Ready" the polls? Can you give me a deceleration of intent on this one?
Oh, and Clinton is not at 31, she is far closer to 50. Get yer facts straight, baby Huey, before you start decelerating!!
Uh, you do realize you can edit your OP-titles in the first four hours or so after you make an OP, right?
I see the extremes of both parties gravitating to those two respective candidates, neither of which is going to ultimately win the nomination.