{"id":29288,"date":"2015-07-26T21:52:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T04:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29288"},"modified":"2015-07-26T22:00:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T05:00:34","slug":"new-poll-shows-18-of-republicans-are-ignorant-dupes-with-severe-mental-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29288","title":{"rendered":"New Poll Shows 18% Of Republicans Are Ignorant Dupes With Severe Mental Decay"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is much being made about a new CNN poll<\/a> that shows Donald Trump leading his GOP rivals in the race for the Republican nomination for president. However, there is less substance in these numbers than the media is pretending there is. What is astonishing is just how shallow the media analysis of these polls are. The ranking at which Trump finds himself can easily be explained by the clinical dementia of today’s Republican (Tea) Party. And despite these polls, Trump will never get the nomination or reside in the White House.<\/p>\n

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Let’s take a closer look. Trump currently has 18% of the support of the GOP voters. The truth that everyone is ignoring is that that’s an awfully pitiful expression of support. It means that 82% are not supporting him. Why does anyone in the press think that’s a positive showing?<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the media is heralding Trump as the runaway GOP leader with his measly 18% of support. For perspective, note that Bernie Sanders, in his campaign against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, is pulling support from 19% of Democratic voters. Yet the press is dismissing him as trailing Clinton badly. So Sanders has more support among Democrats than Trump does among Republicans, but the schizophrenic media declares Sanders a loser and Trump a phenomenon.<\/p>\n

This same schizophrenia is shown in how Republican operatives and pundits portray the relationship between the media and the candidates. If Clinton declines to do an interview or makes reporters walk behind a rope line<\/a> so they don’t interfere with her interactions with voters, she is condemned as being anti-media and disrespectful to the fine men and women of the press who are struggling mightily to bring truth to the American people. But if Trump or any other Republican bashes the press or denies them access (as Trump just did to the Des Moines Register), they are cheered for putting those unethical press weasels in their place.<\/p>\n

Getting back to Trump’s placement in the GOP polls, the explanation for it is that there is a demographic in the Republican electorate that can best be described as batshit insane. And Trump has managed to secure a near monopoly on that addle-brained GOP faction. Prior polling has revealed that a significant subsection of the GOP holds some hysterically idiotic views. For instance:<\/p>\n