Hillary Clinton has a 28-point lead over
Donald Trump among millennial voters during the final throes of the 2016 presidential campaign, a new poll says.
Her margin over Trump with that group is higher than Barack Obama’s lead in 2012.
The new data from the Harvard University Institute of Politics shows Clinton with a 6-point boost from the group’s pre-convention polling. The most significant gains came in her favorability, which jumped significantly over the past three months while Trump’s high unfavorable rating has held firm.
WaPo:
A growing number of prominent Republican women are worried that as members of their male-dominated party step up to defend Donald Trump against accusations of sexual assault, they are causing irreparable damage to the GOP’s deteriorating relationship with female voters.
Trump has faced questions throughout his campaign about his crass comments about women, but concern escalated this month following the release of a 2005 video in which Trump boasted that he had sexually assaulted women and subsequent allegations by 11 women that Trump had inappropriately touched or kissed them. A series of mostly male Republicans have come to Trump’s defense — dismissing the accusers as liars and, some worry, further alienating the female voters that the party desperately needs to survive.
Fascinating ‘undecided voter’ group in NC from James Hohmann, but pay attention to this when you look at focus groups:
If this was a normal year, with a conventional candidate, most would have voted Republican.
Philip Bump/WaPo:
Under new developers, the apartment buildings were built and now bear his name: Trump Place.
But only on the outside, and only because there's a legal agreement that they do so. The Times reported this week that other mentions of Trump's name in the complex will be removed at the behest of residents. The floor mats in the lobby will go from reading "Trump Place" to identifying the building's street address, and "the doormen and concierges have been measured for new uniforms that will no longer carry the Trump name," the Times' Charles Bagli writes.
Travel Weekly reports that the Trump backlash is not limited to those who've bought property in his buildings. A majority of travel agents told the magazine that they were recommending Trump hotels and resorts less than they did before Trump began his campaign; half also said that their clients have said they don't want to stay at Trump properties. After the publication of the "Access Hollywood" tape in which Trump casually mentions committing sexual assault, travel agents reported an uptick in aversion to Trump. In August, the travel site Hipmunk noted that bookings at Trump properties had dropped 58 percent, year-over-year.
The most visible since of this blowback came in a report this week that a new hotel chain owned by Trump wouldn't use the name Trump. Instead, the chain will be called Scion, a decision that a company representative said was because they "didn't want to confuse consumers between the two brands." One can read that as suggesting that the company would rather people not think "Trump" when they see "Scion."
This Democracy Corps poll (Hillary +12) will likely not get attention:
The final pre-election national survey for Democracy Corps shows Clinton moving into a commanding 12-point lead over Trump, getting to 50 percent of the vote as the third party vote is squeezed.1 This lead is produced by some historic voting patterns and a breathtakingly unpopular Republican Party led by Donald Trump. It is also produced by a country where President Obama's approval has reached 56 percent and wrong track numbers for the country’s direction have begun to fall.
Politico:
Donald Trump Talks Like a Woman
And strange as it sounds, it might be one of the reasons he’s done as well as he has.
Sam Stein/HuffPost:
Donald Trump Has Irrevocably Changed How We Will Grade Our Presidential Candidates
Just try to imagine Mitt Romney with Trump’s baggage. You can’t!
Catherine Rampell/WaPo:
As in the last “autopsy,” the GOP establishment will probably conclude that it needs to broaden its appeal to demographics beyond older white men; that what prevented this more widespread appeal in 2016 was having a boorish, sexist, race-baiting, egomaniacal, undisciplined nominee; that if only it fielded a more genteel version of Trump, someone who espoused essentially the same fiscal and social policies but with more empathy, they’d have won the White House, and will win it once again.
This conclusion would be wrong.
The sickness in today’s Republican Party is not confined to its current standard-bearer. It is therefore not curable by merely disavowing, however belatedly, the soon-to-be-defeated nominee. The sickness has taken over the Republican base, and there’s only one antidote.
If Republicans truly want to save the Republican Party, they need to go to war with right-wing media. That is, they need to dismantle the media machine persuading their base to believe completely bonkers, bigoted garbage.
So maybe there is a silver lining to Trump. The end of puritanism (and the end of WJC attacks), the end of supply side and entitlement cut orthodoxy, the end of Newt and Rudy, etc…
Molly Ball/Atlantic:
Trump's Graying Army
In the Republican nominee’s nostalgia-fueled campaign, older voters see their last chance to bring back the 1950s. But he could be starting to lose them, too.
Dylan Matthews/Vox:
21 maps and charts that will change how you think about the election