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Feehery: How Trump wins
The Hill ^ | 8 Sept 2020 | JOHN FEEHERY

Posted on 09/08/2020 6:56:47 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

Feehery: How Trump wins

Most political analysts believe that Joe Biden will beat Donald Trump in the coming election. They are wrong. Here are five reasons why Trump wins reelection:

1) Beating an incumbent is hard: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won their reelections not because they were great presidents but because they were incumbents. Reagan lost the Senate in 1982 and endured a crippling recession but still was able to bounce back to win a landslide in 1984. Clinton’s first two years were so bad that Democrats lost the House for the first time in 40 years. Bush blundered America into a very unpopular war in Iraq after the devastating attacks on 9/11, and yet was able to beat a hapless John Kerry in 2004. Obama’s response to the fiscal crisis of 2008 was to pass an unpopular health care law while presiding over the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression and yet he was able to beat Trump’s biggest critic, Mitt Romney. The power of incumbency is a huge advantage, which the current occupant of the White House is using very effectively, from handing out aid personally in places like Kenosha, to pardoning convicted prisoners who had turned their lives around, to using the bully pulpit to set the media narrative day after day.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; election2020; feehery; johnfeehery; thehill; thehillary; theshill; trump
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Good analysis. He makes five good points total.
1 posted on 09/08/2020 6:56:47 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!

What political analysts?


2 posted on 09/08/2020 6:58:06 AM PDT by albie
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To: Alas Babylon!

The other points are:

2) Strength vs. Weakness:

3) The Economy Stupid:

4) The Elites Don’t Have it:

5) Insiders lose, Outsiders Win:


3 posted on 09/08/2020 6:58:36 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Sadly, another analysis that totally omits the coming massive voter fraud aided by the leftwing SoS of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, etc...


4 posted on 09/08/2020 7:00:09 AM PDT by newfreep (The Communist/DNC VOTER FRAUD is Trump's ONLY opponent in 2020 election.)
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To: albie

Feehety. He wrote it. I guess anyone can say anything, but he wrote an article and here it is.

“Feehery is a partner at EFB Advocacy and blogs at www.thefeeherytheory.com. He served as spokesman to former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), as communications director to former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) when he was majority whip and as a speechwriter to former House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-Ill.).”


5 posted on 09/08/2020 7:00:17 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: newfreep

The Democrats & media (but I repeat myself) have not only threatened massive mail-in voter fraud, they have promised it!!!


6 posted on 09/08/2020 7:02:35 AM PDT by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!)
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To: newfreep

We are going to have to overcome that voter fraud.

How?

We step to the plate, and treat this election for what it is:

The future of the country.

Help out!

Man phone banks, harvest ballots from Conservatives that for whatever reason don’t vote (but by all means, encourage them to vote!), man polling stations, protest voter fraud, give people rides to the polls, post your a$$ off on all social media, investigate the post office who throw out ballots (check dumpsters every day!), but by all means—get out and VOTE!


7 posted on 09/08/2020 7:03:50 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

It’s going to be a blowout


8 posted on 09/08/2020 7:06:12 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Alas Babylon!

Most political analysts DREAM that Joe Biden will beat Donald Trump in the coming election.
BUT they know he won’t!


9 posted on 09/08/2020 7:06:16 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Alas Babylon!

He brings up conventional wisdom. While there is merit to conventional wisdom, we live in highly unconventional times and Trump is the most unconventional candidate of our lifetime.

There are many reasons to feel optimistic about a Trump victory, but we all feel a bit of uncertainty about it.


10 posted on 09/08/2020 7:08:37 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I’m referring to...”Most political analysts believe that Joe Biden will beat Donald Trump in the coming election.”

These “analysts” are from where? CNN, MSNBC, NPR?


11 posted on 09/08/2020 7:08:56 AM PDT by albie
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To: newfreep

Right. By all rational analysis the Democrats can not win this thing. Not with a ticket as flawed as Biden-Harris anyway.

Ergo they plan to steal it.


12 posted on 09/08/2020 7:10:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: newfreep

Voter fraud has been here for over a hundred years. There was massive voter fraud by the Democrats in 2016 in addition to Obama spying on the Trump campaign and Trump still won. Only different this year is Trump is the incumbent with the power to crack down on voter fraud using Homeland Security a d Federal marshals.


13 posted on 09/08/2020 7:12:35 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Alas Babylon!

Side bar, Info: Trump supporters already lined up by the hundreds on the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Smith-Reynolds, Regional Airport, Hangar Tarmac, where the Trump political rally will go forth this evening. Thousands of “Trumpies” expected to attend & cheer/support POTUS, Donald J. Trump. Commences at 7:00 PM local time. When the Hangar fills up, outside Hangar Ramp Space, can handle 100,000 plus folks easily. BE THERE!!!


14 posted on 09/08/2020 7:13:36 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They can want to steal it all they want, it’s not going to happen. They will lose.


15 posted on 09/08/2020 7:14:27 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Alas Babylon!

Stopping the coming tsunami of 50+ MILLION ballots while the Soros controlled SoS leftists of key states are delaying the “counting” of ballots is nigh impossible.

Truly, our last gasp will be an armed retaliation against the communists including their allies in the “news” media.

Regardless of what happens, the war is gonna get violent.

Be prepared.

Get prepared.


16 posted on 09/08/2020 7:15:30 AM PDT by newfreep (The Communist/DNC VOTER FRAUD is Trump's ONLY opponent in 2020 election.)
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To: SmokingJoe

See my post #16


17 posted on 09/08/2020 7:16:20 AM PDT by newfreep (The Communist/DNC VOTER FRAUD is Trump's ONLY opponent in 2020 election.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Beating an incumbent is hard

Perhaps, but maybe having two terms is almost a given by the opposing party. Just look who the opposing party ran...nobodies with less-than-enthusiastic platforms:

1984 - Dukakis vs. President Reagan
1996 - Dole vs. President Clinton
2004 - Kerry vs. President Bush
2012 - Romney vs. President Obama

Seriously, who's the strongest of those opponents? It's like the opposing party really didn't even try to unseat the incumbent.

18 posted on 09/08/2020 7:18:33 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: albie

Got it. Those are what I call political anal cysts.


19 posted on 09/08/2020 7:29:01 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Lou L

1984 - Mondale versus Reagan

1988 Dukakis versus Bush I.


20 posted on 09/08/2020 7:31:20 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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