I love politics and when I see how close the polling is between Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton, it does frighten me.
A new Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released Tuesday shows Clinton up by a single point in the key swing states of both Florida (43 percent to 42 percent) and Pennsylvania (43 percent to 42 percent), while Trump actually beats Clinton in Ohio by 43 percent to 39 percent.
Source: Salon
I get it, we’re still 6 months out from the general election but this isn’t suppose to be happening, Trump isn’t suppose to be close to the Democratic candidate and my liberal/progressive friends in the US should be worried about these numbers. Trump is no joke, I have a feeling while Hillary is courting Jeb’s donors, he’ll start to run to her left and who knows, he’s great at marketing… He’s already softening his stance on the minimum wage and taxes so the democratic party better get its shit in order and take him seriously.
Of course with that said Bernie does better against Trump than Clinton but the political establishment and media keeps saying he’s the weaker general candidate, interesting.
The world should worry about Trump becoming POTUS. The ripples it would send across the political and economic fronts would be enormous, at least for the short run. Personally I don’t think that Trump is fit to be POTUS and I hope that the voters will wake up to this fact before the November elections.
I agree, lol who in their right mind would say they would let the US default on debt to renegotiate… I know he walked it back but UGH, if he’s doing well later in the year even if he loses I think it’d affect the markets. I don’t like Hillary but the status quo is better than his unpredictability.
What politics and economics fear the most is the unknown. Regardless of whether Clinton is the best candidate to be POTUS or not she is at least a “known quantity”. Trump is such a wild card that people don’t know how to read him and therefore will likely cause people to make extreme decisions. That is why I fear the “Trump Effect”.
Clinton & Trump are polling within the margin of error! It’s going to be an interesting 6 months, entertaining and scary at the same time.