The Second Amendement and the vote .. ?

[Ungern]

Hello everybody .

Do you think that the attitude of the two candidates about the Second Amendement could have an significative influence on the votes ?

[MK]

No.  Both sides are pretty much for or against each others candidate. 

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Not to mention the fact that both candidates vigorously support Second Amendment rights. Skewed perceptions of their positions, however, could certainly affect the vote...

[Erich Maria Remarque]

Not to mention the fact that both candidates vigorously support Second Amendment rights. Skewed perceptions of their positions, however, could certainly affect the vote...

No, I really don't think it makes someone switch to Trump, but it might energize Trump's base. Right now it looks like Trump goes all in to get a higher turn-out among the base rather than expanding it (with one exception: he or more probably Ivanka tries to get some Republican women back).

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

No, because their actual positions (that the Second Amendment should remain) are irrelevant next to the public perception of their views. If voters believe that Clinton wants to repeal it, regardless of how hilariously wrong they are, they are going to vote that way.

[angus]

Hello everybody .

Do you think that the attitude of the two candidates about the Second Amendement could have an significative influence on the votes ?

significative?  Possibly.

What are their attitudes?  Clinton has been clear enough.  She has said, "I'm not looking to repeal the Second Amendment. I'm not looking to take people's guns away."

Has The Donald ever said anything intelligible with regard to the second amendment?  He uses the phrase  in soundbites, especially when he talks about "second-amendment people" the way one might comment about chinese people or blind people or clarivoyant people or people who like peanut butter, but has he ever actually put together a sentence about the second amendment itself, other than the ones in which he claims that Hillary Clinton wants to "abolish" the second amendment?