Election 2016: Not Donald Trump vs Not Hillary Clinton

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/06/election-2016-not-donald-trump-vs-not-hillary-clinton

The candidates likely voters are backing in the upcoming presidential election appear to be Not Donald Trump and Not Hillary Clinton.

That's according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday, which looks at a general election hypothetical matchup between Clinton and Trump, and found the Democrat leading the Republican 45 to 36 percent.

But nearly half (47 percent) of those who said they'd support Trump said it was because they don't want Hillary Clinton to win. That motivation was echoed on the Democratic side—nearly half (46 percent) of those who said they'd vote for Clinton said it was because they don't want Trump to win.

In comparison, 43 percent of those who said they'd vote for the billionaire real estate mogul said it was because they support most of his political positions; just 40 percent of those who said they'd vote for the former secretary of state were compelled by her political positions.

The results are not surprising, as FiveThirtyEight noted in a headline Thursday: "Americans' Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking."

"Clinton's average 'strongly unfavorable' rating in probability sample polls from late March to late April [is 37] percent," Harry Enten writes. "Trump, though, is on another planet. Trump's average 'strongly unfavorable' rating, 53 percent, is 20 percentage points higher than every candidate's rating besides Clinton's."

[underthematrix]

1. Donald Trump is mentally disturbed

That should be reason enough not to vote for him.

[Live and Learn]

3. And Hillary sees snipers where there aren't any. And support for AIDS victims where

there was none.

Now, who is disturbed?

Don't get me wrong. I think Trump is an egomaniac and an unpredictable asshole. Wish I could say Hillary wasn't.

[underthematrix]

5. I think the AIDS statement was based on private conversations

with the Reagans. I'll give her a break on that one.

I think Hillary definitely conflated two events into one when she claimed her plane was under attack during a foreign trip as FLOTUS.

But when I say Donald Trump is mentally disturbed I mean in the classic sense. TRUMP appears to have Narcissistic personality disorder, a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. It is rare.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/definition/con-20025568

BTW, TRUMP was kicked out of an elite private school (I believe in New York) because he was considered aggressive and a bully. When TRUMP was asked about his lack of military experience, he said he did have military experience because he attended a military boarding school. He sent there after the he was kicked out of the elite private school.

[Live and Learn]

7. Why make excuses for Hillary and not Trump? I am sure Trump had some events that triggered his

development too.

I'll give them both a break (as if they haven't both had an abundance of them compared to the rest of us). I just don't want either one in charge of the country.

[eridani]

4. If egomania is considered a mental health problem, then yes. n/t

[Live and Learn]

2. Or the new Third Way. Yes Bernie Sanders. Feel the Bern!! nt

[joshcryer]

6. The question should then be, "Are you voting against Trump in Nov?"

It'll be telling the answers you get when you ask that.