How worried are you about Trump turning it around?

[Bojack Horseman]

To further the football analogies I've used since the primaries, it's like being ahead 42-7 at halftime. While it's a pretty big lead, I've seen a team come back and make it close at the end, but I've never seen anyone come back and actually win.

[Xing]

I'd be lying if I said I were 100% confident Hillary will win. A lot can happen in two and a half months, and an international crisis of some kind could drastically change the race. I'm not worried that Trump will suddenly become a respectable, formidable opponent, but the fundamentals of the race could change in his favor.

[Wisconsin+17]

Hillary's up in the aggregate by about 6. That's not an insurmountable lead. It's not a particularly notable lead at this point in the race either. Trump's running out of time to turn it around.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

Trump playing to the alt right/real white supremacists, what could possibly go wrong?!

But seriously, I'm not worried. He's "turned it around" so many times now, only to dig himself deeper. I guess he's looking at the polls and seeing that he has no chance, so maybe he feels as though he has nothing to lose by hiring the fascist Stephen Bannon. It's becoming clearer by the day that his strategy is to maximize turnout among his most loyal supporters/base of uneducated white working class populists (the so-called "Silent Majority" about which we hear Republicans so frequently pontificate as to why they lose elections) to make up for his impending enormous losses among, well, pretty much everyone else. These people supporting Trump really do believe that they are the majority, but come November, they're in for a rude awakening.

They have already decided in advance that the polls are fake, and that the election will be rigged by non-existent Acorn. They are hopeless.

[Torie]

Trump is sort of like a guy in a horror flick who is stabbed to death multiple times, but keeps coming back to life, granted looking ever more grotesque after each death event. In Trump's case, he's stabbing himself, but that is a minor plot detail deviation. So yes, the clear and present danger to the nation has not been fully exorcised from the nation's soul.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I'm generally worried. At this moment it appears to be a sealed deal, but I'm more and more concerned with Hillary being just a bad candidate and blowing it away.

I'd rather be worried until November than overconfident.

[Hermit For Peace]

I look at the situation this way: is my faith in humanity going to remain high? That means Hillary wins and people reject the "divider".

Or, is my faith in humanity in for a complete and utterly rude awakening?

I honestly don't have a cell in me that thinks  -- with all the negative crap that Trump's been pulling -- that the majority of voters really want him to be our leader.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

The Nervous Nellies are getting what they deserve.  They went into the tank for Hillary so they could elect The First Female President.  Never mind her character, never mind her actual behavior, never mind her personal integrity; IT'S HER TURN!

Any other Democrat would be beating Trump in a "no worries" fashion right now.  That the Clintonistas forced their scumbag liar on America is their own fault.  While I'm not part of the "LOCK HER UP!" crowd, what does it say about folks whom push a Presidential candidate for which there is a viable argument for locking her up?

First of all, it's not the fault of any red avatar here that the party cleared a path for Hillary two years ago.  There were a lot of great potential candidates who didn't run - Liz Warren, Russ Feingold, even Joe Biden.  Her only opposition were several lightweight punching bags and a socialist whom no one expected to poll higher than 10%.  The "nervous nellies" are nervous in part because Hillary is the candidate. Why do they "deserve" to be terrified by the very real possibility of a Trump presidency?

Second of all, there's no viable argument for locking Hillary Clinton up.  She has been thoroughly investigated by a hostile FBI and a hostile Congress, and they found no criminal wrongdoing.  Please stop with this nonsense.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm not particularly nervous about a candidate that currently only has between a 20-10% chance of winning.

20-10% is a lot.

Sure, but not compared to the last 4 cycles at this point.

But the stakes weren't so high in the last 4 cycles.

I'd rather have a 50% chance that it will rain tomorrow than a 10% chance of dying tomorrow.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Trump would need to change his campaign to have a chance and he's had amply opportunity and reason to do so for months and he hasn't done it. I have zero worries that he can turn it around. My worries are that something happens to cause him being replaced on the ticket by a competent general election campaigner.

[MasterJedi]

I'll always be somewhat worried but it's just above not worried at all. Man can't keep his mouth shut.

[Hammy]

My worries are that something happens to cause him being replaced on the ticket by a competent general election campaigner.

Honestly I think that would have the best outcome, because there's a large chunk of Trump's base who would either not show up at all, or do whatever they could to get Trump as a third party on as many states' ballots as possible.

[PaperKooper]

I'm not worried at all about him failing to regain ground.  He'll gain at least 5 points on Clinton at some point before the election. 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

My worries are that something happens to cause him being replaced on the ticket by a competent general election campaigner.

Honestly I think that would have the best outcome, because there's a large chunk of Trump's base who would either not show up at all, or do whatever they could to get Trump as a third party on as many states' ballots as possible.

I was trying to be subtle about it, but at this point the only way Trump isn't at the top of the Republican ticket come November is if he is dead or in a coma. I may have a low opinion of Trump voters, but not so low as to think they would vote for him under those conditions, tho they might stay home.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

The Nervous Nellies are getting what they deserve.  They went into the tank for Hillary so they could elect The First Female President.  Never mind her character, never mind her actual behavior, never mind her personal integrity; IT'S HER TURN!

Any other Democrat would be beating Trump in a "no worries" fashion right now.  That the Clintonistas forced their scumbag liar on America is their own fault.  While I'm not part of the "LOCK HER UP!" crowd, what does it say about folks whom push a Presidential candidate for which there is a viable argument for locking her up?

Never mind that no evidence of genuine wrong-doing has been levied, never mind that the she's eminently qualified and HOW DARE YOU... suggest that that her support is based purely on her gender, I'm completely sick of your baseless childish insinuations that come from a place of total ignorance. E-f***ING-NOUGH.

You've got nothing, seriously... what you think of Clinton is on you, but one day you're going to have to make a realisation. You've done nothing but lower my estimations of you. Either get evidence of something real, or f*** off. I've never thought Clinton a perfect human being, and I don't now, but people like you make me realise I've made the right choice.

DONE.

[Progressive]

I'm more worried about Hillary being her own worst enemy than I am about Trump doing something great. Trump gets a lot of flack for always getting in his own way, but, in reality, Hillary does a lot too.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Lol at people who think Hillary's gender provides an electoral advantage. Disgusting.

[Erich Maria Remarque]

Lol at people who think Hillary's gender provides an electoral advantage. Disgusting.

Disgusting?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I'm more worried about Hillary being her own worst enemy than I am about Trump doing something great. Trump gets a lot of flack for always getting in his own way, but, in reality, Hillary does a lot too.

She puts a foot wrong more than a good campaigner would, yes. But she doesn't stuff her leg down her throat, chew on it, and then try to say "there's nothing in my mouth" around a cheekful of kneecap.

I'm more worried that some big external event comes along that hurts her and helps Trump: a major terror attack or other foreign policy disaster where Trump can say "I would have stopped it" and idiots will believe him.

[Badger]

The Nervous Nellies are getting what they deserve.  They went into the tank for Hillary so they could elect The First Female President.  Never mind her character, never mind her actual behavior, never mind her personal integrity; IT'S HER TURN!

Any other Democrat would be beating Trump in a "no worries" fashion right now.  That the Clintonistas forced their scumbag liar on America is their own fault.  While I'm not part of the "LOCK HER UP!" crowd, what does it say about folks whom push a Presidential candidate for which there is a viable argument for locking her up?

FB, do you SERIOUSLY believe on issues of character, behavior, and personal integrity that Trump is one iota better, if not arguably even (gasp!) worse than Hillary?

[Badger]

The Nervous Nellies are getting what they deserve.  They went into the tank for Hillary so they could elect The First Female President.  Never mind her character, never mind her actual behavior, never mind her personal integrity; IT'S HER TURN!

Any other Democrat would be beating Trump in a "no worries" fashion right now.  That the Clintonistas forced their scumbag liar on America is their own fault.  While I'm not part of the "LOCK HER UP!" crowd, what does it say about folks whom push a Presidential candidate for which there is a viable argument for locking her up?

FB, do you SERIOUSLY believe on issues of character, behavior, and personal integrity that Trump is one iota better, if not arguably even (gasp!) worse than Hillary?

In response to OP, a little. Expectations for Trump are SOOO low for Trump and loathing of Hillary so high, all he has to do is reduce--not eliminate, just substantially reduce-- the frequency of loathsome bigoted, cray-cray statements to merely "periodically" rather than multiple times a week, and there are many voters who will decide (wrongly) he's acceptable enough to hold ones nose and vote against Hillary.

[BlueSwan]

Somewhat worried.

Things are looking good right now, but 3 months is an eternity in politics.

[BlueSwan]

It is Russian Roulette at this point. I'm likely to survive, but only a fool wouldn't be worried about pulling that trigger. I don't want to pull the trigger. I want to remove that one remaining bullet first.

[Erich Maria Remarque]

It is Russian Roulette at this point. I'm likely to survive, but only a fool wouldn't be worried about pulling that trigger. I don't want to pull the trigger. I want to remove that one remaining bullet first.

The best description of the race I've ever seen!

[hopper]

He is starting to realize you can't run a Republican Primary Campaign in a General Election Campaign. Its to little too late though!