Posted on 08/27/2016 8:51:18 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(CNN)It's the most deceptive sign in politics.
Every four years, a presidential candidate gazes out over a vast crowd and convinces themselves the White House is there for the taking. In 2016, the general election candidate drawing the biggest and loudest crowds is Donald Trump. "We got to Oklahoma, we have 25,000 people. We had 21,000 people in Dallas, we had 35,000 people in Mobile, Alabama. We get these massive crowds," Trump said in Florida earlier this month.
"Look, if she had 500 people I would be surprised," he added, poking fun at Hillary Clinton's more intimate events.During the primaries, Trump's massive crowds did, in fact, translate to votes. But size is not always a barometer of a campaign's destiny. In fact, extrapolating electoral prospects from the size of rally crowds is often a misleading metric -- for evidence, look no further than the campaigns of Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and Mitt Romney. Bernie Sanders thrilled thousands of people in mega-rallies over the past year and a half as well.
Yet every election, candidates and aides, seeking silver linings when beset by bad polls, indulge the wishful thought that bulging rallies will mean a stampede at the ballot box. Often, they tout that mystical, yet unquantifiable, political commodity: Momentum. "Momentum's a word from physics that got hijacked by journalists and political operatives to sound scientific," said Sam Wang, a professor of neuroscience who runs Princeton University's Election Consortium. "What it means is -- 'I am excited by where I am today, I am excited by what is happening.'"
That is not stopping Trump however-just as it did not stop Sanders supporters who saw his crowds of 20,000 and up in the primary race to argue that a tsunami of enthusiasm for the Vermont senator could overcome Clinton.
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OK, but either you stand by what you say, or you don’t say it. Especially not in a closed meeting. Bad optics.
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“OK, but either you stand by what you say, or you don’t say it. Especially not in a closed meeting. Bad optics.”
Politicians(especially Republican politicians)rarely, if ever, “stand by what they say.” Thus, Donald Trump.
Romney was never going to win anything
Professor Helmut Norpoth said Obama would win reelection in January!!! LOL
https://youtu.be/nuGnpa0yreg?t=177
I haven't read the article, but I'll bet Collinson doesn't mention the DNC knives in Bernie's back...
Somebody should slap the teeth out of Collinson's lying face.
Yes, I have a feeling you’re right about that post-election anxiety, as well. Nothing won ever seems to stay won, if you know what I mean. Always a battle. Always whack a mole.
Lord, hear our prayers.
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