In a striking assessment of how Donald Trump’s politics have produced a deeply divergent assessment of his presidency, a new University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll of likely voters released today shows that more than 80% of the electorate had already decided which party’s presidential nominee they would support by the first half of Trump’s term. …
“Unlike the 2016 presidential election, in which a sizeable portion of voters waited until the waning days of the campaign to decide between Clinton and Trump, we find that voters have largely made up their minds and some having done so as far back as four years ago,” says Tatishe Nteta, director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll and associate professor of political science at UMass Amherst. CONT.
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