Ken Berwitz
Why is it that – again, asalways seems to be the case – a study is conducted asking about Trump\’spopularity among Republicans (who can then be classified as mouth-breathingneanderthals for supporting someone like him), but Democrats are not askedwhether they would give trump their vote? What ispolitico.com afraid of? Do the people there avoid asking out of fear overwhat they might find out? Or, is it that they did ask the question anddid generate the information, but don\’t want to tell us what it is?
A new survey of likely voters might at least raise momentarydyspepsia for Democrats…
…The survey by Washington-based Mercury Analytics is acombination online questionnaire and “dial-test” of Trump\’s first bigcampaign ad among 916 self-proclaimed “likely voters” (this video shows the ad and the dial test results). Ittook place primarily Wednesday and Thursday and has a margin of error of plusor minus 3.5 percent.
Nearly 20 percent of likely Democratic voters say they\’dcross sides and vote for Trump, while a small number, or 14 percent, ofRepublicans claim they\’d vote for Clinton. When those groups were furtherbroken down, a far higher percentage of the crossover Democrats contend theyare “100 percent sure” of switching than the Republicans.
