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Facebook/POLITICO Poll Finds Trump Endorsement Was Net Negative For Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney easily won Nevada last night, but this past week has also been notable for Romney thanks to a surprise last-minute endorsement by famed recluse Donald Trump. Trump has now promised to drop the whole notion of running as an independent for the presidency if Romney ends up being the Republican nominee. But having the association between the two businessmen may not be working in Romney’s favor.

RELATED: Ron Paul Jabs Trump Endorsement: ‘Why Would Anyone Care?’

A poll released by Facebook and POLITICO over the weekend reaffirms what previous polls have told us already: having Donald Trump’s name attached to your candidacy can only do more harm than good. Only 9.6 percent of those polled said they thought Trump’s association with Romney gave them a positive view of the candidate, compared to 41.4 percent saying it gave them a negative view. 49 percent said it didn’t matter either way to them, but the net difference between the positives and negatives is definitely significant. The poll surveyed over 1000 Nevada Republican voters on Facebook.

The poll was taken before the Nevada race was decided, so the effect of Trump’s endorsement on Romney’s double-digit victory last night is unclear.

h/t POLITICO

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  • Anonymous

    Duh.

    If your candidate is already struggling with an image as an out-of-touch moneybags whose policies will only further enrich the very wealthy, an endorsement from another out-of-touch moneybags who will benefit from those same proposals — and is a crackpot birther to boot — isn’t going to help.

  • Anonymous

    Recluse? This guy is everywhere.

  • Anonymous

    Trump’s endorsement matters just about as much as any celebrity endorsement, except that Trump actually had a following when he considered a run for President himself.  So maybe those that liked Trump will consider the endorsement.  Otherwise, none of them really matter.

  • Anonymous

    Unless you really believe that Obama’s policies have been good for the economy and good for the country, you will vote for Romney who at least has a clue about how the economy works, and can do something effective to stop the US from spinning out of control and down the drain.

  • Anonymous

    When Obama entered office we were losing 800,000 jobs a month, the stock market was collapsing at frightening speed and the auto industry was on death watch. Maybe you’ve forgotten?

    Now we’re ADDING hundreds of thousands of jobs, the market is at almost twice what it was three years ago and GM came from near-death and is number one. No one says that the economy is fantastic, but compared to where we were, that’s enormous improvement. That’s just simply a fact, regardless of the right wing media spin.

    (And just FYI — that guy that you tout as being so knowledgeable about the economy argued that the auto industry should be left to drown for the good of the country. Maybe Governor Moneybags should buy a clue.)

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    do something effective to stop the US from spinning out of control and down the drain.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/davecjohnson/6088811219/

  • Anonymous

    Now we’re ADDING hundreds of thousands of jobs, the market is at almost twice what it was three years ago and GM came from near-death and is number one. No one says that the economy is fantastic, but compared to where we were, that’s enormous improvement. That’s just simply a fact, regardless of the right wing media spin.

    “You are entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts.”
    ~Barack Obama, 2/25/10

    I wonder if people have forgotten this quote, too? This was from the Health Care Summit where the Congressional GOP had unfettered access to bash the President and he made them look like fools. 

  • Anonymous

    I usually respect Mediaite – but analyzing a FB user poll? Excuse me? That’s stupid. It’s not even scientific. 

  • Anonymous

    Let’s see – the market is twice what it was before, and hundreds of thousands of jobs have been added to the economy. I don’t love Obama, but this statement is true. You, of course, have not disputed one fact in the comment.

  • Anonymous

    If you believe that a President controls the economy, then you don’t really deserve to vote. 

  • Anonymous

    If you believe his policies have nothing to do with the economy, then clearly you do not deserve to vote! 

  • Anonymous

    Agreed, except that a recent Fox News poll actually showed a similar result. So this is simply confirming what conventional polling has already deduced.

  • Jardino

    Newspapers endorse.
    Governors endorse.
    Even Sarah Palin endorses.
    LOL @ “Trump endorses.”

  • ganmerlad

    You know, I often wonder if Trump isn’t an undercover Democrat because he has done a lot to make Republicans look bad.

  • Anonymous

    you’re forgetting about the number of people that dislike him because of his public consideration for president. 

  • Anonymous

    Good. Trump is a Trojan Horse. He’s a fraud, a buddy of Soros, who pulls O’Bummer’s strings.

  • Verreauxii

    Romney was terrible at job creation as Governor of MA. There is a reason he didn’t run for re-election. 
    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mitt-romney-tries-to-play-the-jobs-card-2010-02-23?pagenumber=1

    Even Romney himself admitted the economy is getting better. Kinda makes it hard for you to say what you just did. Guffaw. 
    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288736/ingraham-challenges-romney-message-brian-bolduc

  • Anonymous

    Is there anymore loathsome person in these United States than Donald Trump?

  • Anonymous

    Not true. It’s all in how the writer presents his case.

    MA had been hit particularly hard by the dot-com bust,” observes Michael
    Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. Bolstering Widmer’s point is a 2007 study done by Massachusetts Institute for a New Economy that found the Bay State had the most severe job loss in light of the high-tech sector’s downfall. While the national average was a 2 percent job loss, Massachusetts suffered one of 6 percent before Romney came into office..

     ”Under his leadership and economic reforms, the Massachusetts
    unemployment rate went from 5.6 percent to 4.7 percent, and the state
    had a positive record of nearly 50,000 new jobs created.”  Remember, MA is a small state with far fewer people than TX or CA or NY or many other states.  So you look at the percentage.

    “Another factor is Massachusetts’s political climate. Romney didn’t get
    to work with a conservative GOP legislature, like Perry and Huntsman
    did. Instead, he faced such a hostile legislature that out of the over
    800 line-item vetoes he made, the legislature overrode more than 700.”  Yet in spite of that, he still brought the unemployment rate down and not only brought a $3B debt down and balanced the budget but left a strong “Rainy Day Fund”.

  • Anonymous

    If you believe that Congress has to ratify those policies without obstruction……..

  • Anonymous

    He’s a publicity whore and holds himself in the highest esteem!  I do not!!

  • Anonymous

    He still appeals to Birthers.

  • Anonymous

    Some actually relise he was faking it the hold time……some……..

  • Anonymous

    Yes! That well runs deep. Mitch McConnall for one……..

  • Anonymous

    I wonder what Trump gets for his endorsement.

  • http://www.facebook.com/anil.hanagud Anil Hanagud

    I wonder if The Donald and Newt are working in cahoots here! Remember, Newt was the only one who agreed to participate in a ‘debate’ that The Donald tried to organize. Maybe, it’s payback time for The Donald to Newt, i.e., by endorsing Romney, undermine Romney’s chances of winning the nomination.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Obama’s policies (those that Congress has actually been willing to implement) have been good for the country. And Romney’s alleged strength on the economy has no basis in reality. His first-hand knowledge of how to buy up struggling companies and then strip them of their assets for personal profit isn’t really a useful skill for a president.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KV4RFCL74WV652VV43U3GDPAEY Stephen W

    if you allow what Donald Trump thinks, effect your decision about anything, then you are not very bright.   Think for yourself.        

  • Anonymous

    Which is why we need to vote in a Re0publican majority in the Senate.  Harry Reid is the BIG OBSTRUCTIONIST!  

    The House passes vote after vote to help create jobs, yet Reid won’t even alloow them to come up for discussion in the Senate.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    We all “have a clue” as to how the economy works. Only the conservatives think it works in mysterious ways.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    That was sarcasm.

  • Anonymous

    What’s really sad is the kissing of Trump’s ring by Romney. What a loser! Why would any one kiss Trumps ring? Trump is a nobody with money. Taking credit for someone else’s money moving machine. Trump is too full of
    himself to realize he’s just another Yookle wanting to fill the airways with his
    own version of what happened. Could it have been the people who voted for Romney
    who actually voted him into this primary position? Naw! It was Trump! Trump
    bought the votes. The TEA-GOP-Republican have proven beyond any shadow of doubt,
    they are money-hungry power-mongers. It
    is my opinion that president Obama is much smarter than given credit for. This
    man definitely has leadership qualities that far outshine any of his prospective
    opponents.

  • Anonymous

    Reid is trying to avoid wasting time on garbage that would actually cause a net decrease in viable jobs. Those smoke screen proposals are only so they can say “we tried but they wouldn’t work with us” and its another form of obstruction. Send a proposal with merit and things might be different. The New RepublicanTea Party will not work with anything with BHO’s name on it, It has to have the NRTP name on it to be acceptable. Just so you know I would be glad to see Reid gone I’m no fan but that doesn’t change the point made. 

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