Posted on 08/29/2015 6:18:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Cranky Reader: Sides, you are an idiot.
Me: Cranky Reader! Welcome back. Its been a long time since youve been in touch.
CR: Unfortunately, it hasnt been a long time since youve been dead wrong about a presidential election.
Me: What did I do now?
CR: Remember how a few weeks ago you said to blame the media for Trumps surge? And how there is this cycle of discovery, scrutiny, and decline for primary candidates? You know, in your stupid book? Well, Trumps been scrutinized a million times since then. And his poll numbers are just as strong! Wheres the decline?
Me: Ive got some thoughts on this. Lets start with this idea: People dont change their minds without new information.
CR: Well, yes. In fact, that is painfully obvious.
Me: What I mean by discovery, scrutiny and decline is that, during the presidential primary, peoples opinions respond to changes in the information theyre getting. The initial surge of news coverage drives up poll numbers. Some combination of scrutiny and the discovery of the next candidate brings about the decline....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Obviously Trump is selling what the people want, Jeb and Hillary aren’t.
It is as simple as this:
The Democrats represent the illegal aliens.
The GOP represents their employers.
No one represents the citizens, 65% of whom want the borders and laws enforced.
Trump says he will.
He wins.
Yes, and the Iowa Caucus poll released this afternoon almost matches the CNN poll from the beginning of the week. Trump +1 Doc Carson +4 from the other one. I guess we all don’t realize that Snidely Trumplash is a bad bad guy..
¡Yeb! would need all of the Mexican vote, even the ones still in Mexico, to win.
Bingo!
The MSM would love to ignore Trump, or create a negative public image of him, but they can't -- people are too interested in him, and he already has a public image.
So Trump gets massive MSM coverage, which increases his support, because he's saying what most people believe but are not getting from establishment politicians.
That’s a pretty good summary.
People are fed up with the establishment elites.Trump is the protest.The next level of protest would be very unpleasant and involve a lot of rope.
Thanks for the insult.
LOL.
What Trump has going for him though is the fire in the belly and the competitive spirit. I think he will prevail, especially as he appears to be taking command of the situation.
Trump is for AMERICA.
That is why he is doing so well. He is not for outsourcing, he is for building our country back up.
Those of us with sauna-temperature IQ’s know you’re wrong.
We can only dream...
This room temp IQ is at least pleased he is showing a clear example of how to handle elitist wannabees while he does it. Republicans would do nothing anyway, so this is better than that.
Case in point, the media complaining about his use of the term 'anchor babies'..it's just not heard any more. Trump completely shut that down, and STILL uses it.
The media is totally befuddled. They'd love to screw Trump but they just don't know how.
“...The media is totally befuddled. They’d love to screw Trump but they just don’t know how...”
Not only the media, but the liberal democrats and the GOPe are befuddled and don’t have a clue how to handle Trump....
The only people who DO understand Trump are the common, everyday working real Americans....
THEY LOVE HIM!!!!!!
From your tagline, maybe you should just go to Daily KOS...You might fit in better...
“The media is totally befuddled. They’d love to screw Trump but they just don’t know how.”
Yes. They finally used up all of their credibililty. They have been coasting on stored up credibility for two decades.
During the Obama administration, they used up all they had left.
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