Fox News Poll of potential 2020 matchups

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What does it matter? What the OP image actually shows is a list of five people who will not be President following the 2020 election.
I was hoping that a Republican, that I could vote for, would stand up and beat Trump in the primaries. Looks like they are all scared to try it,
 
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Last time it was postulated that people who voted for Trump lied to pollsters because they were too embarrassed to admit it. (I certainly would have been.)

But I don't know. He won, and preachers' wives started telling me he was ordained by God. Fallback position? Blame God for one's bad decisions?
 
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Exactly, he was polling low (exit polls included) all the way up to his winning.
How low, specifically, and how did those numbers compare to the results in the OP? I mean, "the polls are wrong! fake news!" is a great bit of spin but let's see how well it holds up against the facts.
 
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Yeah, 2018 didn't exactly go well for GOP candidates, just as Donald's low approval ratings would have predicted. They haven't changed significantly since then, either.

Voters will have two choices in 2020,

Vote their dislike for Trump.
Vote their pocketbooks.

If the economy continues to surge the Dems might propose new programs for everyone (except the very rich) intending to pay for them by taxing the heck out of the new economy. If taxpayer aren't fooled this will work against them.

In the meantime the Republicans might propose new tax cuts to take political advantage of the increase tax revenues generated by the surging economy.

If the voters understand all this Trump will win easily, imo.
 
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Not the worst source of news by any stretch. Fox News is a roller coaster in terms of quality.
Well, it is NOW. Like its slant or not, it once was a quality network. Now that it is under new ownership, the conservative moderators, hosts, anchors, etc. have apparently been told that they must feature liberals along with conservatives, and the result is a mish-mash of conflicting comments from politicians speaking over each other--often to the obvious distress of the moderators.
 
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Way, way too early to take polls seriously.

Or even the speeches made by the candidates at this point. Most of us have lived through (survived?) enough election cycles to realize this. But the campaigning seems to begin earlier every time.
My advice to a person who wants to run for president: Wait until about January of the year of the election. Start campaigning and making speeches too early, and you risk saying or doing something foolish. Joe Biden is already doing that.
 
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The national polls were pretty accurate for 2016. .
No, they were not. Only two, I think it was, out of a dozen or more had the winner correct. And those two were often ridiculed in the weeks leading up to election day. As for the fact that the electoral college chooses rather than the popular vote, most of the polls you are referring to had Hillary much further ahead in the popular vote than it turned out to be.
 
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No, they were not. Only two, I think it was, out of a dozen or more had the winner correct. And those two were often ridiculed in the weeks leading up to election day. As for the fact that the electoral college chooses rather than the popular vote, most of the polls you are referring to had Hillary much further ahead in the popular vote than it turned out to be.
Clinton got more votes nationally than Trump did. Polls only measure popularity, not electoral votes.
 
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Voters will have two choices in 2020,

Vote their dislike for Trump.
Vote their pocketbooks.

No, they can also vote because of their fear of losing their status to "the other", or because of abortion, or concern for the environment, or for a candidate who can speak in complete sentences, or many other reasons.

If the economy continues to surge the Dems might propose new programs for everyone (except the very rich) intending to pay for them by taxing the heck out of the new economy. If taxpayer aren't fooled this will work against them.

I'd love to see polling numbers on how many actually believe that trickle down economic policies work. And the overlap between the people who do and the majority of non straight-party-GOP voters. I think you're making the mistake here of assuming that things which drive the GOP base wild appeal to the majority of undecided voters.

In the meantime the Republicans might propose new tax cuts to take political advantage of the increase tax revenues generated by the surging economy.

That would be a bad idea - More Still Disapprove Than Approve of 2017 Tax Cuts

If the voters understand all this Trump will win easily, imo.

Again, you seem to confuse "understand" with "uncritically accept GOP talking points".
 
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I'd love to see polling numbers on how many actually believe that trickle down economic policies work.

The government spending part of economics is trickle down.

The Democrats don't have a lock on ideological voting. I voted for Trump on the basis of his agenda, not my wallet.
 
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