Year: 2016
Trump Builds ‘Yuge’ National Lead
44%
Donald Trump’s huge national lead over his GOP rivals, followed by Ted Cruz at 17%, Ben Carson at 10%, Marco Rubio at 10%, Jeb Bush at 8% and John Kasich at 4%, according to a new Morning Consult poll. In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders, 46% to 39%.
Clinton Has Little Traction with Youth Vote
It is fair to wonder about Clinton’s ability to put the party back together if she does become the nominee. Getting youth turnout is always tricky for Democrats, and Clinton is getting absolutely annihilated with young voters: She lost the youngest group of voters (17-29 in Iowa and 18-29 in New Hampshire) 84%-14% and 83%-16%, respectively. Now, we know that Barack Obama put the party back together fairly easily in 2008, and that if Clinton is the nominee she will be able to use her Republican opponent as a motivational tool. But these are staggeringly lousy numbers for Clinton nonetheless.
— Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball
2016 College Freshmen the Most Liberal in 40 Years
34%
Percentage of college freshmen finds that 34% of first-year students view themselves as “liberal” or “far left” — the highest since 1973, when 36% responded that way, according to a new Higher Education Research Institute survey. In contrast, just 22% identify as “conservative” or “far right.”
Trump Finally Repulses Conservatives – His Vulgar Language Shocks S.C. Focus Group
Donald Trump’s rise during the 2016 presidential campaign has confounded experts from the start. No one could have predicted that a buffoonish billionaire from the Outer Boroughs would have broad appeal to conservative voters nationwide.
But now, for the first time, something the GOP frontrunner said appears to have shocked Republican voters.
He said the word “fuck.”
