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Re: Donald Trump running for President
There's a fail-safe in the system.
Someone might remind Trump what happened to Gore.
Digital voting is another fail safe. They've found machines preloaded with votes, hacked and plain rigged. Someone said neither party makes a fuzz since they both like the option.
Re: Donald Trump running for President
I listened on the radio & I agree Carly Fiorino had a pretty decent showing. Affirmative, however I think Trump or somebody did nail her on her badly executed tenure at HP had been, I think that'll knock her down over the long haul. Jeb Bush seems on his way out. I think Trump (on the radio at least) just sounded like a sideshow circus. There's really nothing there & he had one or two insults which didn't go over well at all & I'm surprised there hasn't been more backlash ("All Arab names I might add"??).
Chris Christie hung in there, made a modest showing, I didn't hear Ted Cruz too much, Marco Rubio is just too scripted for me. He just recites memorized speeches about his Grandfather coming to Amercica etc.. blah blah balh. I think Rand Paul is done, which is ashame, I was hoping he'd make a splash.
Re: Donald Trump running for President
I missed it. I'll have to watch a replay. They need to narrow this thing down pretty quick. Having like 15 people in a debate is bat shit crazy.
They could easily cut half the line up already. Most are polling in single digits anyway and need to be eliminated.
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Re: Donald Trump running for President
Rubio did well. Carly did well. I can't stand Cruz. Seems slimey.
Re: Donald Trump running for President
Here's why Trump could win
From Brentwood mansions to Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., the idea that Donald Trump could become president has alternately set off fits of laughter and terror. While some political insiders, including a growing number of establishment Republicans, concede that Trump could win the nomination, few believe that Trump could actually become president. But a close analysis of the political climate and electoral path to the presidency shows that the possibility of a Donald in chief is less far-fetched than people imagine.
The establishment argument goes something like this: first, Trump will implode, owing to some stupid thing he says or does (so far no sign of this). Then, maybe he could win the nomination but ultimately voters will see what “we” (the elites) all see: he is unfit to be president and they will vote for an alternative. That argument might work well if elections were won by a national vote taken the year before the election, when the majority of people paying attention are political elites, plus a small number of people in early primary states. However, elections are won by achieving a mathematical number: 270 electoral votes. In that formula, Trump is just as competitive—and perhaps more so—as either John McCain, in 2008, or Mitt Romney, in 2012.
To be clear, at the moment Trump is the absolute and clear front-runner for the Republican nomination. Trump has been the front-runner longer and by a more significant margin than any of the many flameouts he is often compared to from past campaigns. Comments made by Trump, which would have tanked any other politician’s campaign, seem to bounce off him, and even make him more compelling to certain voters.
Assuming Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, some inside the Beltway believe there is a possibility that she might win states like Indiana, North Carolina, Missouri, and Montana, which Obama won or only narrowly lost in 2008. But with Trump in the race, all of those states—which are more red than they were in ’08—are likely out for Democrats. Swing states like Colorado and Virginia are clear toss-ups. There are few states that Romney or McCain won where Trump, as the Republican nominee, wouldn’t be in the running, and an analysis of other key states shows that Trump’s in far better position than his detractors would like to admit. If Trump were to win every state that Romney won, Trump would stand today at 206 electoral votes, with 55 electoral votes up for grabs in Pennsylvania, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa, and New Hampshire. Similarly, Trump does not necessarily lose in a single toss-up state versus Hillary Clinton and, in fact, is seemingly competitive in many.
Virginia is trending blue, but could be a toss-up, particularly given the tale of Dave Brat, whose success in 2014 could be read as a harbinger of Trump. Colorado will have high Republican turnout, given that it is home to what’s likely to be one of the country’s most contested Senate races—which could make it more competitive than it should be, considering Trump’s comments about Latinos. Depending on how well Trump shows in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, they too could be in play. In two of the remaining states, Wisconsin and Nevada, any Democratic nominee will have an upper hand—particularly Clinton. But Trump will be able to effectively contest, particularly in a place like Wisconsin, with working-class white voters who elected Scott Walker three times in four years. Finally, Pennsylvania, which has been leaning ever-more blue and will likely go blue this year, will nonetheless require Clinton to spend some resources and time there—taking away from her efforts in other swing states.
Which all means that the election comes down to Florida and Ohio, two states where Trump has significant advantages. In Florida (29 electoral votes), he is a part-time resident and is polling better than the state’s former governor and sitting U.S. senator. He’s also currently neck and neck with Clinton in polls of the state’s likely voters. The state’s important Hispanic population is more skewed toward people of Cuban rather than Mexican ancestry—some of whom may not be as turned off by Trump’s anti-Mexican immigration comments as Hispanics in other states. The Florida voting population includes a high percentage of evangelicals (a group with whom Trump seems to have had baffling success). Let’s also not forget Florida’s troubled history around running elections properly, which includes not just the Bush v. Gore campaign of 2000, but regularly some of the longest lines and most egregious cases of disenfranchisement of minority voters anywhere in the country. Plus, it currently has a Republican governor, and Republican majorities in both of its state legislatures.
Read more at: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/ … -president
Re: Donald Trump running for President
I've said it all along.....he is the PERFECT prez for the current culture we live in. A "reality" obsessed culture with its "reality" prez. That's why he's going to win. He makes sense.
I don't want to compare him to Reagan but he has one thing Reagan had behind him.....the common man. When you've got them behind you its pretty much all wrapped up.
Only Trump can fuck it up at this stage. If its smooth sailing scandal wise then he is our next president.
