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Democrats Are Playing Checkers While Trump Is Playing Chess
The New York Times ^ | October 12, 2017 | Thomas B. Edsall

Posted on 10/12/2017 6:22:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

For Democrats, the warning shots are coming thick and fast.

“More than half of Americans don’t think Donald Trump is fit to serve as president, yet he has a clear path to winning reelection,” Doug Sosnik, who served as President Bill Clinton’s political director, wrote in the Washington Post last week. “Are Democrats Headed for a McGovern Redux?” Alan Greenblatt asked in Politico on Oct. 9. On the same day, a New York Magazine headline declared: “No One Should Rule Out a Trump Re-election in 2020.”

What can Democrats do?

A Pew Research Center survey released earlier this month documented the growth of the partisan divide: “the median (middle) Republican is now more conservative than 97% of Democrats, and the median Democrat is more liberal than 95% of Republicans.” The two accompanying charts illustrate the heights partisanship has reached.

Much of the current polarization is driven by difference of opinion on issues of race and immigration. Ashley Jardina, a political scientist at Duke who has focused much of her research on the racial attitudes of whites, emailed me to comment:

It’s clear that the Democrats have lost many whites because of whites’ attitudes about race. We can see that over time, whites’ racial attitudes have become increasingly linked to their party identity, with more racially conservative whites identifying more with the Republican Party.....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2020; democrats; maga; third100days; trump; winning
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1 posted on 10/12/2017 6:22:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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As long as President Trump sides with the citizens and the rule of law and the Democrats side with illegal aliens, he’s a shoo-in.


2 posted on 10/12/2017 6:24:52 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What in the world is “racially conservative?”


3 posted on 10/12/2017 6:26:14 PM PDT by youthphil
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Democrats have foisted multiculturalism on an unwilling populace, as if there are no downsides.


4 posted on 10/12/2017 6:29:58 PM PDT by brianr10
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To: youthphil

Racist.


5 posted on 10/12/2017 6:30:58 PM PDT by brianr10
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

‘Rats are playin tiddley winks ...


6 posted on 10/12/2017 6:32:50 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth ( Freep u, Schmucky)
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[Rat] party leaders are not going to abandon their ideological commitment to immigration

Rats don't and won't believe in America for Americans.

7 posted on 10/12/2017 6:36:13 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Scott Adams predicted this in his live blog today. Somebody might have the link for that but this indicates the beginning of what he called the capitulation phase.


8 posted on 10/12/2017 6:38:27 PM PDT by DadOfFive (MAGA)
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9 posted on 10/12/2017 6:47:35 PM PDT by Bobalu (The NFL, Watching their demise is more fun than watching their games.)
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.....‘Rats are playin tiddley winks ...

Correction:

'Rats are "playing with themselves". Political Masturbation, as it were...

10 posted on 10/12/2017 6:52:46 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Surely, Democrats Are Playing Checkers While Trump Is Playing Chess...

Yes. And don’t call me Shirley.


11 posted on 10/12/2017 7:03:08 PM PDT by bitt (The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literal)
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I like to remind my Democrat and liberal friends that Trump is averaging 50% approval in the 16 crucial states he needs for re-election. It is a long time until Nov, 2020. But it will be here soon enough.

Our president will serve until noon on Jan 20, 2025, God willing. See how your left leaning friends respond to that likelihood. ha ha ha!


12 posted on 10/12/2017 7:03:39 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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To: Bobalu

Is THAT — a codpiece?!?


13 posted on 10/12/2017 7:05:36 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: workerbee

Now what are you doing, checking out his package?


14 posted on 10/12/2017 7:10:10 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: DadOfFive
Scott Adams predicted this in his live blog today. Somebody might have the link for that but this indicates the beginning of what he called the capitulation phase.

You mean like this?

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."?

15 posted on 10/12/2017 7:10:30 PM PDT by Aria
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cornell Belcher?

Makes me think of a kid in junior high who used to carry on a conversation in belch mode.


16 posted on 10/12/2017 7:11:01 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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What a stupid article. These fools just have to see everything through their race lens. Fact is that most liberals just aren’t very bright. Very limited logic skills and are obviously unable to learn through direct observation and experience. They are slaves to the false principles they picked up and cannot move beyond them. It would be sad if not for the ruined lives and cultural destruction they wreak.


17 posted on 10/12/2017 7:24:34 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: youthphil

What in the world is “racially conservative?”

That was my question when I read that.


18 posted on 10/12/2017 7:24:44 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is the nyt lying or demented and deluded?


19 posted on 10/12/2017 7:32:24 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be defeated.)
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To: youthphil

KKK at least to libs


20 posted on 10/12/2017 7:56:00 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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