Is Donald Drumpf bringing new voters to the table?

[SwimExpert]

Simple question. Is Drumpf motivating people to get out to vote, or are we dealing with the same voters who would have been voting anyway?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Trump, to his credit, has motivated many who have not voted at all or for a long time.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Trump should have run 3rd party from the get-go. Perot got 20% in 92 running on a similar populist agenda, without any celebrity whatsoever.

 

[eddiew]

Trump, to his credit, has motivated many who have not voted at all or for a long time.

yes they're letting people in asylums vote

 

[SwimExpert]

No input from the drumpfodder?

 

[browsing deer]

He is moving Hillary voters from republican primaries to democratic ones.

Hillary voters vote for hillary, or trump. The result is the same

 

[JakeStarkey]

Trump is ensuring a HRC victory in the primaries and the national election.

 

[washamericom]

Simple question. Is Drumpf motivating people to get out to vote, or are we dealing with the same voters who would have been voting anyway?

i wasted my vote on benedict romney last time, so this year i'm voting for Trump twice,
which will cancel out one vote from a long time dead voter in chicago voting for hillary again.

these are the same dead voters who still receive social security checks,
which curiously, only about half of which actually get cashed.

 

[washamericom]

Trump is ensuring a HRC victory in the primaries and the national election.

no, that's your job jake starkey.

 

[HUGGY]

Trump is just getting more Tea Party types to get involved. He offers them the rhetoric they longed for as their previous founders AKA Bennett, Rove and the Koch brothers never spoke out loud in public.

No one with half a brain believes the crap Trump spews and damn sure doesn't want someone with so little restraint sitting in the White House with access to nukes.

If you think the Donald is scary now... just wait till he actually has power. Not gonna happen.

 

[eddiew]

Trump is just getting more Tea Party types to get involved. He offers them the rhetoric they longed for as their previous founders AKA Bennett, Rove and the Koch brothers never spoke out loud in public.

No one with half a brain believes the crap Trump spews and damn sure doesn't want someone with so little restraint sitting in the White House with access to nukes.

If you think the Donald is scary now... just wait till he actually has power. Not gonna happen.

and who's gonna put up the billions if he is repub candidate??? Him??? lol lol

 

[HUGGY]

Trump is just getting more Tea Party types to get involved. He offers them the rhetoric they longed for as their previous founders AKA Bennett, Rove and the Koch brothers never spoke out loud in public.

No one with half a brain believes the crap Trump spews and damn sure doesn't want someone with so little restraint sitting in the White House with access to nukes.

If you think the Donald is scary now... just wait till he actually has power. Not gonna happen.

and who's gonna put up the billions if he is repub candidate??? Him??? lol lol

If he has any honor and the courage of his stated convictions maybe so. Congress certainly won't pay for his wall and the extraction of all of the immigrants he has stated must go The promise that Mexico will pay for the wall is nonsense and most Americans are not falling for it. If Mexico REALLY was going to stop illegal activity at the border they could easily arrest all parties involved. Of course the Mexican authorities are involved in the drug trafficking and turn a blind eye to those passing through en route to our country. If they cracked down on vagrants they could eliminate them but then they would be exposed for the drug traffickers they get paid by.

 

[SwimExpert]

But the question is whether he is bringing new voters to the table? Are people voting just because Trump is a candidate? Or is the pool of people who are voting pretty much the same as it would be if he weren't in the picture?

 

[Cecilie1200]

But the question is whether he is bringing new voters to the table? Are people voting just because Trump is a candidate? Or is the pool of people who are voting pretty much the same as it would be if he weren't in the picture?

Apparently, it's a very complicated, complex question. Some states are seeing an increase in new voter registration as GOP, some are seeing increases in new voter Democrats. Those that are seeing switches from one party to another are seeing more Democrats switching Republican than the other way, which may be sincere or not, given that these are just primaries. Some states don't ask party affiliation when people register, so they can't contribute data. And of the new voters registering as Republican, some are doing so to vote for Trump, and some are doing it to vote AGAINST him. And, of course, even if he brings in new voters for himself, he also pushes longer-term voters away.

So . . . it's a mixed bag.