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Hillary could really blow it: 4 reasons she’s a uniquely vulnerable to a Trump assault
Salon ^ | May 20, 2016 | Anthony J. Gaughan, The Conversation

Posted on 05/20/2016 12:36:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 05/20/2016 12:36:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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“4. American prejudice”

Bullsh!t Solon. It is Hillary and the dimoKKKRATS who are dividing this country.


2 posted on 05/20/2016 12:42:10 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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A lot of Americans would move to America if she loses.


3 posted on 05/20/2016 12:42:34 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary could really blow it

No, I think that was Monica Lewinsky's responsibility.

4 posted on 05/20/2016 12:43:13 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“the GOP nominee is the most divisive and polarizing presidential candidate in modern history”

Bitter clingers were not available for comment.


5 posted on 05/20/2016 12:44:14 PM PDT by lacrew
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"Those campaigns worked because Obama was one of the most effective campaigners in modern American political history."

It helped that the media and the pop culture elites coronated him and the Republicans put up two ringers in a row to assure his victory. Any weak and unqualified candidate with that behind them could easily win, too.

6 posted on 05/20/2016 12:44:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Most political analysts and pundits, myself included, have predicted that Trump is highly likely to lose the general election.

I trashed reading any more in this article after that sentence.

7 posted on 05/20/2016 12:44:39 PM PDT by nikos1121 (A Trump America will be like Greece's Golden Age of Pericles)
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The Democrats are...” running a campaign that is dividing Americans along racial, religious and gender lines.”

Fixed it.

The Democrats pander to every minority and then expect the working class to pay the bills.


8 posted on 05/20/2016 12:46:18 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (The government is the problem, not the solution.)
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Donald Trump is running a campaign that is dividing Americans along racial, religious and gender lines.

Progressive writers projecting onto conservatives what they have been doing for years. Such predictable BS.

The division started with the democrats, and it's looking like they'll never stop until all is destroyed.

Their problem is, one they actually don't recognize, they have finally run up against opposition that is smarter, tougher, is willing to and knows how to fight them.

So they have to whine about him.......

9 posted on 05/20/2016 12:49:08 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. He's not Hillary. I love both these things.)
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“Donald Trump is running a campaign that is dividing Americans along racial, religious and gender lines.”

Tell a lie often enough....


10 posted on 05/20/2016 12:50:11 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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Donald Trump is running a campaign that is dividing Americans along racial, religious and gender lines.

No he is not. This is the big lie Democrats have been selling since the 1970s about every GOP Canidate

The dirty truth of American Politics is this. The modern US Democrat Party exists solely to exploit racial, religious and gender. It cannot win an election on issues. It cannot win an election on facts. It can only win elections by exploiting the fears and haters of their self created "victim" classes

11 posted on 05/20/2016 12:52:43 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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"Blow it"? Rather poor choice of words I'd say!

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Hillary is seen here scarfing a NY “Street Weenie” using the “Lewinsky Method” popularized by her husband and that woman with whom he did not have sex.

12 posted on 05/20/2016 12:59:09 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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For example, the GOP’s Southern strategy, which stoked the fears and resentments of white voters, contributed to Republican victories in five of the six presidential elections between 1968 and 1988.

Ah, the mythical "Southern Strategy".

The Democrats had a lock on the South after Reconstruction. They just can't admit to themselves that in 1968, Southerners could no longer vote for an increasingly Progressive party platform. The 1968 Democrat convention was the last straw.

There was no "strategy" by the GOP. The Democrats simply squandered the support of one of their biggest voting blocs.

13 posted on 05/20/2016 1:01:41 PM PDT by justlurking
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Without commenting on the merits of the four specific reasons given, there is at least one more: her temper. The Donald knows how to make her blow her top. And when she does, she looks absolutely ridiculous.

Sir Thomas More (a.k.a. St. Thomas More) and Erasmus firmly believed that humor was a powerful agent for social change. I think they were right. Just think how influential late night comedians and Saturday Night Live have been in creating the narrative about everything from gay rights to James Stockdale.

Stockdale’s question “Who am I? Why am I here?” was a legitimate rhetorical way of introducing himself, a political unknown, to the electorate. But it was poorly executed. And it was the ridicule he suffered at the hands of Saturday Night Live that did him in. He was actually a brilliant man, and a legitimate war hero. But he was out of his element, and they made toast out of him for it.

The Donald knows how to use humor, too, and he uses it effectively. All he needs to do is to get Hillary to blow up and mouth off, and he’ll know how to turn it against her. She’s her own worst enemy, politically speaking, in much the same way that Stockdale was.

I’ve been saying for months that The Donald will capture the nomination first, and then the White House. It won’t be because he’s the most qualified—I don’t believe he was the most qualified GOP candidate. It will be because he knows how to manipulate the media like no one else in the race, including Hillary.

Hillary’s boring. Even to the media, who love her. But they live on advertising revenue, and who will watch four more years of Hillary?!

Then there’s The Donald. He’s been good copy for decades. They can’t get enough of him. They hate him, and at the same time they hate themselves for loving him. That’s why he’s gonna win. He knows how to get them to do his bidding, and they love him for it even as they hate him for it. He’s like their cocaine. Deep down they want another “hit” and they’re gonna keep going to their supplier to get it.


14 posted on 05/20/2016 1:03:15 PM PDT by scouter (As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
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LOL


15 posted on 05/20/2016 1:04:07 PM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan (girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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Donald Trump is running a campaign that is dividing Americans along racial, religious and gender lines.

And Obama hasn't been doing that for 8 years? And Hillary's BLM pandering, and "first woman president", and "I'll fight for women rhetoric" is uniting?

16 posted on 05/20/2016 1:06:59 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
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Salon is in utter denial:

Even though Trump is massively unpopular and there's no way he can get elected, liberals better make sure to vote!

LOL.

17 posted on 05/20/2016 1:12:21 PM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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” Even fellow Democrats worry that she comes across as inauthentic.” Inauthentic is code for “liar”


18 posted on 05/20/2016 1:18:04 PM PDT by Kozy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

more bilge from saloon.


19 posted on 05/20/2016 1:24:00 PM PDT by 867V309 (It's over. It's over now.)
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Bitter clingers were not available for comment.

We weren't asked to comment.

20 posted on 05/20/2016 1:27:12 PM PDT by thulldud
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