To: Wharf Rat who wrote (967116 ) 9/24/2016 11:39:56 PM From: Wharf Rat Respond to Most Americans See Trump As a Racist Madman — Some Just Like That in a PresidentEric Levitz average of national polls, while FiveThirtyEight’s election forecast gives the Republican nominee a 40 percent chance of winning the White House this November.of abject failure : Clearly, the fourth estate has not given the American people an accurate assessment of the choices before them.virtually everything else the Democratic nominee brings to the 2016 race.most mendacious candidate in modern American history — and yet voters see him as “ more honest and straightforward ” than his opponent. What’s more, even though his economic program consists of supply-side tax cuts and deregulatory schemes that most Americans oppose — and his career in business has been marked by corruption and incompetence — many polls show a majority of voters saying Trump would be better at handling the economy.newspapers , cable news anchors , even chyron writers . The perception that he is more honest than Clinton likely stems from qualities that are immune to refutation: He often speaks off the cuff, shows little message discipline, and says things that seem both wildly offensive and politically useless. Such behavior is associated with honesty, even when the words being spoken are anything but.Associated Press–GfK survey released Friday finds that a majority of Americans think Trump is at least somewhat racist, while 60 percent say he does not respect ordinary people, and nearly three-quarters say he is neither civil nor compassionate — a sentiment endorsed by 40 percent of Trump’s own supporters. Clinton earns kinder marks on all of those fronts, with 22 percent saying she’s racist, 48 percent that she doesn’t respect ordinary folks (and/or “ deplorables ”), and 58 percent that she isn’t compassionate.new SurveyMonkey poll shows Americans taking an even darker view of the Republican nominee, with a majority of voters saying Trump would abuse the power of the presidency to punish his political opponents, allow the U.S. to default on its debt, inspire “race riots” in major cities, create a database to track Muslim Americans, and order air strikes against the families of terrorists.not been “ normalized. ” Most Americans see him as a racist would-be authoritarian who is highly likely to start a nuclear war. The trouble is, some voters apparently like that in a president.
