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How Hillary Loses Donald Trump can actually win if Clinton makes these four mistakes.
Politico ^ | 30 May 2016

Posted on 05/30/2016 8:21:34 AM PDT by mandaladon

How Hillary Loses

Donald Trump can actually win if Clinton makes these four mistakes. Spoiler alert: She’s already making all of them. (Full Title)

It’s a terrifying moment for Democrats: Hillary Clinton’s double-digit lead in national polls has evaporated and panic is beginning to set in. Polls now show Donald Trump ahead of Clinton, or at worst only a few points behind. During the insanity of the Republican primary, it was easy for them to believe that Trump could never be president—that in a general election, mainstream voters would regard him as an absurdity. But Clinton remains a shaky candidate with historically high negatives, an email scandal that keeps getting worse and a stubborn primary opponent whose supporters may yet become a midsummer nightmare in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the Republicans, seemingly in all-out civil war just weeks ago, have quickly fallen in line. Democrats are resigning themselves to a tough, ugly, painful and expensive street fight.

The numbers offer some reassurance for Democrats—but also some bad news.

The reassurance is that the recent polls probably don’t mean much. Trump’s current surge is likely driven by Republican voters coalescing around their nominee, and Clinton will almost certainly get a similar bump when Bernie Sanders lets go and Democratic voters return to the fold. Most pundits believe 2016 is still Clinton’s race to lose.

Here’s the bad news: There is now a clear path for her to lose it.

If you drill down enough, it’s clear there are at least four paths to a loss, and any one of them poses a real risk for a candidate likely to follow her usual careful, calculating playbook.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clinton; elections; hillary; sanders; trump
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The cold math of a potential Clinton defeat is not to be found in national polls, but in the Electoral College—and within each state’s unique demographics and culture. Trump won’t dramatically remake the political map, but he doesn’t need to. ..............Very good analysis...
1 posted on 05/30/2016 8:21:35 AM PDT by mandaladon
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How Hillary Loses Donald Trump can actually win if Clinton makes these four mistakes

Can we get that in some kind of understandable sentence?

2 posted on 05/30/2016 8:23:10 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: mandaladon

The more Clinton slips in the polls, the more likely she will be indicted.


3 posted on 05/30/2016 8:24:10 AM PDT by allendale
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Again: It’s a long way to November, and Trump could always self-destruct. But he probably won’t, and 2016 is shaping up as a contest that a careful Clinton campaign can easily lose, state by state, even as she piles up the popular vote in California and other sure-win places. Demographics are not destiny. In fact, they can be a disaster waiting to happen.....................Hillary will be defeated!
4 posted on 05/30/2016 8:24:24 AM PDT by mandaladon (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twai)
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The four mistakes:

1. Opening her mouth.

2. Barking like a dog.

3. Continuing to have Huma with her mouth to her hear giving some advice about which Snap-On-Tool to use tonight.

3. Parading the diseased Billy Goat out to sing her praises.


5 posted on 05/30/2016 8:25:32 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Some moderator has removed my tagline)
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To: Jim 0216

Donald Trump can actually win if Clinton makes these four mistakes. Spoiler alert: She’s already making all of them. (Full Title)


6 posted on 05/30/2016 8:26:45 AM PDT by mandaladon (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twai)
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Redux from a post a week or so ago. Her main mistake was not planning for the guy who will not back down or be cowed by those who have protected her, Obama, and other hard core Lefties. She expected to be insulated and it has all started falling apart to the point where she can’t find all the pieces, much less pick them up.


7 posted on 05/30/2016 8:27:49 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: mandaladon

This is actually wishful thinking for Hillary. She has nothing right now...full on collapse. The question now for her is how the Hell do you become someone different so you don’t get crushed all across the country?


8 posted on 05/30/2016 8:32:09 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: allendale

You know that she’s in deep doo doo when Politico says so.


9 posted on 05/30/2016 8:32:36 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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I don't really care enough to go to the website.

Can you just bullet point the four mistakes?

10 posted on 05/30/2016 8:33:47 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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If Hilary Clinton wins the U.S. Presidential election, it would be

the first time in history that two U.S. Presidents would have slept

with each other.

If Donald Trump wins the U.S. Presidential Election, it will be the

first time in history that a Billionaire moves into Public Housing

vacated by a black family.

ONLY IN AMERICA!


11 posted on 05/30/2016 8:36:06 AM PDT by mandaladon (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twai)
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Believe nothing from the queers at this RAT run site (politico).


12 posted on 05/30/2016 8:38:08 AM PDT by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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After I heard about the recent State Dept IG report I think the Democrats have finally realized what a liability Hillary is and are ready to throw her under the bus, probably on orders from either Obama (Valerie Jarrett) or Soros.

This IG was appointed by Obama and confirmed by a Democrat led Congress, so she can’t use her usual “vast right wing conspiracy” nonsense, it comes from her own party. So it looks like, to me at east, the Democrats are ready to throw her under the bus. Grope-O-matic Biden will step in of course, and it won’t matter, Trump will win anyway.

A couple of things nobody is really paying much attention to...

One, Trump is hard wired to win. It’s in his genetic code. He’s also the true leader with an actual backbone more people every day want to see.

Two, I don’t think anyone really knows how many voters will not admit it to family and friends, or even a pollster on the phone, but in the privacy of the voting booth, will vote for Trump.

Three, Trump is pulling voters from Democrat and Independents. 60,000 people in Mass., 20,000 in another state, 40,000 in another (I can’t remember which ones) left the Democrat party and registered as either Republican or Independent before the primaries, all to vote for Trump. I haven’t seen any news articles about this in other states, but I’m willing to bet it’s happening.

Hillary doesn’t have to do much to lose, it looks like her own party is going to take it away from her. And they don’t have time to get anyone else firmly established.


13 posted on 05/30/2016 8:38:36 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (Sure, the early bird gets the worm. But the SECOND mouse gets the cheese...)
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To: mandaladon

I think Trump will win, even if Hillary doesn’t make any mistakes — as long as all reasonable people get out and vote for Trump, not Hillary, nor some spoiler independent or third party candidate.


14 posted on 05/30/2016 8:48:18 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: mandaladon

4? I count 2:

- Show up
- Be herself


15 posted on 05/30/2016 8:51:10 AM PDT by Mjreagan
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To: trebb

Redux from a post a week or so ago. Her main mistake was not planning for the guy who will not back down or be cowed by those who have protected her, Obama, and other hard core Lefties. She expected to be insulated and it has all started falling apart to the point where she can’t find all the pieces, much less pick them up.


True then and now. The Donald doesn’t care what she, or her protectors the MSM say. He’s plowing right through their BS and talking to us.


16 posted on 05/30/2016 8:53:06 AM PDT by patriotspride
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The four mistakes:

1. Running against Trump

2. Running against Trump

3. Running against Trump

4. Running against Trump


17 posted on 05/30/2016 8:55:35 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: mandaladon

What a laugh.

Trump has already won.

A biker nailed it yesterday. He said he’s a Baby Boomer, and we just want it back.

And everyone knows us Baby Boomers get what we want.

It’s a done deal.


18 posted on 05/30/2016 8:56:06 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Jim 0216

A little grace here. This author is a hard-core lefty masquerading as an objective journalist.


19 posted on 05/30/2016 8:58:16 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Regulator

You got that right!

From this younger Baby Boomer, I say Trump wins in a landslide!


20 posted on 05/30/2016 9:07:15 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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