Acquiesce wrote:

Smoking Guns wrote:

Was he able to have his rally and give a speech? If not, they shut down his right to free speech and also his supporters have a right to hear him.  This is very simple.

The first amendment simply guarantees that he cannot be jailed for his speech. Nothing more. It does not guarantee that he can speak without criticism. By the way, the right to protest is also protected by the first amendment.

I get the annoyance with protesters, but the blame for this being shut down goes on Trump and his supporters, in my opinion.  I believe every candidate has dealt with protestors at their rallies.  All of them have been handled peacefully. Only Trump advocates for violence and consequently only his rallies erupt in violence. The fact that Trump hasn't been arrested for advocating violence has shown his free speech has been protected.

Jesus Christ you act like Trump is Axl Rose. Yes you have the right to protest and you have the effing right to have your rally. He canceled it because he was worried the protestors would get violent. So the protestor's free speech suppressed someone else's. I am glad MR. ID is objective. He agrees this is not what America is about. Thanks ID. I want Bernie and Hilary and every candidate to be able to speak their mind peacefully.

Acquiesce wrote:

Smoking Guns wrote:

Yes. So stupid. Black Lives Matter and Sanders supporters, who knew they would be such great teammates tonight to shut down free speech.

You clearly don't know what the first amendment is about if you think his free speech was violated.

Was he able to have his rally and give a speech? If not, they shut down his right to free speech and also his supporters have a right to hear him.  This is very simple.

Yes. So stupid. Black Lives Matter and Sanders supporters, who knew they would be such great teammates tonight to shut down free speech.

But Trump would start at a disadvantage: Most Americans just really don’t like the guy.

Contra Rupert Murdoch’s assertion about Trump having crossover appeal, Trump is extraordinarily unpopular with independent voters and Democrats. Gallup polling conducted over the past six weeks found Trump with a -27-percentage-point net favorability rating among independent voters, and a -70-point net rating among Democrats; both marks are easily the worst in the GOP field. (Trump also has less-than-spectacular favorable ratings among his fellow Republicans.)

Favorability ratings can vary quite a bit from pollster to pollster, however, so I went back and collected a broader array of data. Specifically, I took an average of each candidate’s favorability ratings in polls from the Huffington Post Pollster database since Nov. 1.1

We’ve got an unpopular set of presidential candidates this year– Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in either party with a net-positive favorability rating — but Trump is the most unpopular of all. His favorability rating is 33 percent, as compared with an unfavorable rating of 58 percent, for a net rating of -25 percentage points. By comparison Hillary Clinton, whose favorability ratings are notoriously poor, has a 42 percent favorable rating against a 50 percent unfavorable rating, for a net of -8 points. Those are bad numbers, but nowhere near as bad as Trump’s.

This is not just a recent phenomenon; Trump’s favorability ratings have been consistently poor. It’s true that his favorability numbers improved quite a bit among Republicans once he began running for president. But those gains were almost exactly offset by declines among independents and Democrats. In fact, his overall favorability ratings have been just about unchanged since he began running for president in June: