Donald Trump the top Republican choice among Tenn. voters
Twenty-six percent of Democratic respondents said they don’t know who they support. The survey finds 44 percent of self-identified Republicans saying they are anxious about Trump becoming president, higher than his closest competitors Cruz (25 percent) and Rubio (28 percent). Half would be comfortable with it, compared with just 30 percent of suburbanites and 20 percent of city-dwellers.
The numbers painted a significantly better potential picture for Bloomberg than a recent Morning Consult survey, which found Bloomberg grabbing 13% in a hypothetical three-way race.
In Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race, Democratic voters are largely undecided about who they’d like to see emerge as their nominee to take on Republican U.S. Sen. Clinton and Trump, who have been in the public spotlight for decades, enjoy nearly 100 percent name recognition.
The Marquette University Law School also asked likely voters about proposed legislation to allow concealed carry on K-12 school grounds if sanctioned by local school boards.
The poll shows that in Iowa, 61 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers with a candidate preference – including 76 percent of Trump supporters and 58 percent of Cruz supporters – are strongly committed to their choice of candidate.
Statewide opposition to Trump, though notable, was only half as strong as statewide opposition to Clinton.
But 47 percent of self-described Democratic voters in the sample picked Clinton as the candidate they’d most like to see win the presidency. And, of course, basic probability theory says that the odds of both Mr. Trump and Mr. Sanders being nominated are far less than the chances of either one of them being chosen. A respective 10 percent, meanwhile, said they would instead back Clinton and Bloomberg. “The conventional wisdom in American politics has always been that someone who is not religious can not be elected president of the United States”, Pew said.
Will the general election be between three New Yorkers? Partisan divisions are 34-23-34 percent, Democrats-Republicans-independents.
This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by landline and cellular telephone January 21-24, 2016, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 1,001 adults.