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In Presidential elections, size doesn't always matter
CNN ^ | 27 August 2016 | Stephen Collinson

Posted on 08/27/2016 8:51:18 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Hillary is going to cheat to win this election...somehow.

Sam Giancona winks


41 posted on 08/27/2016 9:42:03 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
How did Obama win the 2nd election? I'd sure like to know.

Voting fraud. Simple as that.

The RATS are experts at voting fraud.

I'm convinced fraud is the only way Killary can win in November. Hopefully Trump and his folks are working hard to counteract.

42 posted on 08/27/2016 9:45:36 AM PDT by upchuck (The very worst of Trump is much better than the very best of Killary. Go TRUMP!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

It was pointed out by the guest host on Lou Dobbs last night that Hillary is running a low profile campaign with no open rallies, but only small venues with the press locked out and attending her private donor parties.

This amazing low profile approach has proven to serve her well in the polls. The campaign is well aware that HRC doesn’t play well when put out there aggressively into the public view.

The media regularly takes her attacks for her and keeps her out of the lights.

It is amazing this serves her so well, apparently, if the funky polling means anything.

TRUMP can not draw her out in the open field, where in 2012, she was happy to be seen going toe to toe against Obama.

Seems to me the Left is unenthused about HRC if she actually shows herself and campaigns, but are willing to vote for who they “think” she is, when she stays hidden.

Either HRC knows her victory is already secured by a machine certainty, or she knows by her own internals that she is only propped up, and that will lose, therefore she is simply going through a few campaign motions.

Which is it?


43 posted on 08/27/2016 9:49:38 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxmsists coming, infinitum.)
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To: RitaOK

Excellent analysis, Rita.


44 posted on 08/27/2016 9:52:11 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Why not? Go in with good security and a helicopter :)

Gangs are known for not wanting THAT kind of attention drawn towards their area.

Bad for business, shooting at presidential candidates.


45 posted on 08/27/2016 9:57:51 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

If they did, it would like as not be some kind of careless “accident” incurred as a result of settling some unrelated gang score.


46 posted on 08/27/2016 9:58:59 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The Clinton News Network is correct; large crowds at rallies means little.

The dead never show up at the rallies yet many vote, and we know that the dead vote solidly Dhimmicrat!


47 posted on 08/27/2016 10:00:30 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: upchuck

It looks a lot like poll packing, yes.

That’s why Trump can not (and probably will not) be satisfied with just enough. He has to crush, not just beat.


48 posted on 08/27/2016 10:01:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: upchuck
Most people in this country surround themselves with like minded people and can't conceive how the other side can win. Obama won, maybe because too many conservatives stayed home against Romney or maybe because there are simply more softheads. It was not voter fraud.

You can't make rational decisions if you don't live in reality. The truth is there are a lot of democrats and a lot of softheads who vote democrat because it makes them feel morally superior. The off year elections don't mean squat because the gibmedats don't show up. They will be waiting in line for their Hillary checks on Nov. 8.

49 posted on 08/27/2016 10:05:10 AM PDT by douginthearmy
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To: plain talk

I looked and I found: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser

The 47-percent gaffe was in mid-September, but Romney recovered especially after the first debate where he did very well.


50 posted on 08/27/2016 10:05:25 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

No presidential candidate has ever drawn the crowds or enthusiasm of William Jennings Bryan. He was defeated three times as the Democrat nominee for president.

FR and other amateur political junkies wallow in exaggerated emotions, expectations and claims when it comes to candidates. The vast majority of voters are much more ho-hum, instinctually understanding elites will get their way and the overall culture will trump politics anyway.


51 posted on 08/27/2016 10:06:16 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

All Hillary has to do is gaze upon a Cemetery.

It’s full of her Voting Base.

As far as this Election goes, Que Sara Sara.


52 posted on 08/27/2016 10:08:24 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed FIVE* more People than Three Mile Island. *revised...)
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To: trisham

Trisham, thanks.

If this election is institutionaly “fixed” then we’ve been already undone for a very long time.

If HRC is too unhealthy to stand up and campaign, and too corrupt for words, then TRUMP should win in a landslide.

Things are so weird and upside down it causes some anxiety, nevertheless.


53 posted on 08/27/2016 10:10:22 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxmsists coming, infinitum.)
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To: jjotto
One has to have pizzazz about the right things.

Per Wikipedia:

After 1920 he supported Prohibition and attacked Darwinism and evolution, most famously at the Scopes Trial in 1925 in Tennessee. Five days after the conclusion of the Scopes case, Bryan died in his sleep.

This is sadly like the Donks, to overdo things, even good things like temperance and creationism, both of which they turned their backs on in political cynicism later because their tempestuous approach didn't sell.

54 posted on 08/27/2016 10:16:20 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RitaOK

This is a game of Jeopardy.

“He said ‘Do not be anxious.’”


55 posted on 08/27/2016 10:18:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: originalbuckeye
"Reference to Hillary’s ‘intimate’ functions. Bwahahaha!

Only thing is that Slick Willie Clinton was elected twice using the "intimate" town hall tactic. Of course Ross Perot helped WJC too.

56 posted on 08/27/2016 10:20:11 AM PDT by buckalfa (In your heart you know he's right.)
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To: RitaOK

Absolutely. The anxiety will be with me until long after the election, regardless of who wins.


57 posted on 08/27/2016 10:20:23 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Rallies, sign wavings, putting signs up in right of ways have some marketing value. But if the folks who go to rallies also become volunteers, knock on doors, persuade voters, Trump is in great shape.


58 posted on 08/27/2016 10:22:51 AM PDT by mainerforglobalwarming
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To: ScaniaBoy

Quote:

“The 47-percent gaffe was in mid-September, but Romney recovered especially after the first debate where he did very well.”

That was no “gaffe.” That was one of the very few times Romney had the stones to stand up and tell it like it is.


59 posted on 08/27/2016 10:35:42 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
The lack of crowd thing worked pretty well as a barometer for the Jeb campaign.


60 posted on 08/27/2016 10:37:07 AM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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