The Pubs had no chance with any of those other candidates running.
You must be joking.
Did you see ANY of the matchup polls between Hillary and the others vs Hillary vs Donald?
Rubio and Kasich had a clear advantage. Even Cruz.
Trump always performed the worst against Clinton.
I don't know how to respond to something like this. I hope you are just venting/provoking me.
It has been proven time and time again that these polls simply signal that the parties are divided during the primaries and that the frontrunners receive more negative votes than the outsiders.
In other words, those polls do not indicate the actual performance of those candidates pitted against Hillary Clinton.
Consider this fact too: Both Hillary and the Donald have 100% name recognition and are very well defined. Those other candidates were not widely known and are not defined and naturally opinion of them is going to be higher.
I don't agree with you Ljube.
Others like Kasich and Rubio would have had a better chance than trump .... no doubt about it.
You can just see the posts here on Atlas from a good number of Pubs, who are saying that they will not vote for trump. trump is too toxic, too clownish, racist & sexist remarks, no political experience, dangerous unknown character to handle the military/nukes, temperament, narcissism, etc etc.
There would NOT have been this type of and large exodus of Pubs with a candidate like Kasich or Rubio.
There would not have been an unusually high
er exodus from women and white women, with a candidate like Kasich or Rubio.
There would not have been an unusually high exodus of Hispanics with a candidate like Kasich or Rubio.
Etc, etc.