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My Money Is on a Trump Victory
The National Review ^ | August 29, 2016 | Heather R. Higgins

Posted on 08/29/2016 10:48:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: JBW1949

How could it? He didn’t say anything.


21 posted on 08/29/2016 11:35:20 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: be-baw

He posted the article...You sent your response to him...That’s all...


22 posted on 08/29/2016 11:39:15 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Additional reasons why Illary will have a difficult time winning:

1) No one can stand her. Those who vote for her do so for strictly ideological reasons. EVERYONE knows that she is incredibly corrupt and the very definition of a liar. At least Jimmy Carter was (at the time) not hated by everyone (”he’s a nice guy, just incompetent”).

2) Illary is coming after 2 terms of not merely an incompetent President of the same party, but someone viewed as being actively anti-American by a large percentage of the population - and Illary hasn’t criticized Obama at all.

3) The economy just SUCKS, and she’s proposed nothing to get it moving again except more taxes, more regulations and more wealth redistribution. Trump, OTOH, has promised less taxes, less regulations, better trade agreements and an immigration policy both intended to benefit the American worker, and he will remove the chains from the entire energy industry (which will help correct our huge balance of payments deficit and employ hundreds of thousands in very high-paying jobs.

4) Illary is, well, ILL.

5) Trump hasn’t started to advertise in a big way - yet. She’s spent about $200 million and that, combined with her “convention bump” has given her...a lead of a couple of points, at best.

6) Julian Assange isn’t through with her yet.

7) She’s not Black - so a lot fewer Blacks will show up at the polls, and of those that do, she’ll get a lesser percentage.


23 posted on 08/29/2016 12:10:00 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: HamiltonJay

A hundred bucks on Trump will win you $350 in Vegas.


24 posted on 08/29/2016 12:25:55 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Agree with the analysis.

I think too that Trump’s overtures to the black community - “what have you got to loose?” will earn dividends on election day.

When it gets right down to it, I think more folks than not will be willing to “take a chance” with Trump - rather than going for the sure-thing nothing-burger, which is HRC.


25 posted on 08/29/2016 12:47:05 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I still do not understand why people like Ryan or McCain are so popular. The way people vote makes me squirm.

While democrats seem to have a solid support for their message, on the GOP side there seem to be no such sanction for GOPe who wander off message on national security and economy


26 posted on 08/29/2016 1:09:30 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I agree. The reason? He's extremely articulate.

His sharp use of the language has tempted me to quit drinking.

27 posted on 08/29/2016 1:49:30 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: anton

Yes but none of these scandals seem to hurt her. She is being funded by Saudi groups who want her to talk nice about the Kingdom. Voters don’t seem to care.


28 posted on 08/29/2016 3:00:19 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: HamiltonJay

Do those 25% really care what Peter King or Paul Ryan and other dissenters think? Asking the question because I am not sure.


29 posted on 08/29/2016 3:02:06 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Ancesthntr

Some good points. The perception we get outside of this contest, here in Canada that is, is what the phony numbers tell us. So we all think the US economy is on recovery mode and unemployment has been driven down to 5%. So my question is do Americans believe the numbers or how things really “feel” to be so for them personally?


30 posted on 08/29/2016 3:04:41 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Ancesthntr
One more thing. Canada may be far more socialist, but not a single candidate, for the last couple decades at least, has ever admitted to wanting to increase taxes. That would be a death stroke for anyone running here. Curious that a candidate in the US can say she wants higher taxes and still get the upper 40s in the polls. Are voters not aware of her commitment to higher taxes?
31 posted on 08/29/2016 3:07:02 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

I suspect a much more malevolent motive for the Saudi money and the Muslim handler.


32 posted on 08/29/2016 4:00:58 PM PDT by anton
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To: cpdiii

“If we loose the court, we are doomed.”

We have already lost the court, the question is whether Trump can win and bring it back.


33 posted on 08/29/2016 4:05:35 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Sam Gamgee
Are voters not aware of her commitment to higher taxes?

Voters are unaware of almost everything.

34 posted on 08/29/2016 4:07:55 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, Kelli Ward 2016)
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To: Ancesthntr

Let’s hope all the points you list materialize, but I don’t have faith in the American people.


36 posted on 08/29/2016 4:10:10 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, Kelli Ward 2016)
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To: JudgemAll

Some of this faith in Ryan-o and McPain could just simply be the ineptitude of the American Republican voters.


37 posted on 08/29/2016 4:11:43 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, Kelli Ward 2016)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Well, some of them are the establishment and their sycophants who know their gravy train is tied to the system as it is... for them they will do anything to keep the system from changing, and have no qualms seeing Hillary in the White House to do it... basically these are everyone who is an R and has stated they will vote for Hillary.. among many others.

The rest are people just working through their sour grapes because they supported someone else, or they do have reservations because Trump’s brash style isn’t to their liking.. the overwhelming majority of these will end up supporting Trump in the end.


38 posted on 08/29/2016 7:32:30 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would agree with you except for the dim fraud. They just wait to see how many votes Trump gest then find boxes of votes in the trunk of a car. Happened before, will happen again.
I just hope the election is such a blowout for Trump that all the libs heads explode.


39 posted on 08/29/2016 8:16:47 PM PDT by Big Mack (I love this country.I's the government that scares the crap out of me)
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To: Sam Gamgee; All

I agree with many of the comments in this thread. I’ve been saying for a long time any time the press and politicians start hitting Trump harder, it’s because he is gaining ground. Like the old saying, when you’re taking the most fire, you’re directly over the target.

Sam - American voters mostly know only what they see on the 5:00 news. And that’s usually on the big 3, ABC, CBS and NBC. All owned and operated by democrats, donated to democrats, and all have close ties to Democrats in government, and all protecting Hillary. they don’t know or know very little about Hillary’s emails, Benghazi actions, lies, health, any of it. The press is hiding it all.

This is usually referred to as “low information voters”. Most people don’t bother to get online and dig up what is actually happening, they see the 5 o’clock news and think they know all they need to know, and for the most part, refuse to believe they are being lied to, because the so called news is telling them exactly what they want to hear. They have also bene brainwashed their entire lives to believe the news is the last word, journalists are inherently honest and have some sort of built in imperative to tell the truth. It seems appalling and outrageous to them that a reported would actually lie, or even bend the truth.

So most Americans have no idea what is really going on, they know almost nothing about the candidates, and all they know about Trump is what the so called news is spoon feeding them. Most actually believe Trump is a racist and bigot, they don’t know he fought City Hall in Palm Beach FL, to get restrictions removed so he could build his golf course and allow blacks and Jews to have memberships too. They know nothing about the Jesse Jackson video I just saw in another thread praising Trump for his efforts to help blacks in the 90’s. They don’t know he was one of the first executives to hire female executives, or that a female executive was 2nd in command when Trump Tower was built.

The news is telling them none of this, they only repeat all the latest lies Hillary is pushing. As for Hillary saying she will raise taxes, they actually cheered. They cheered when she said she would raise taxes on the middle class. The cheer when she says she will expand Obamacare, because they don’t know it’s already bankrupted over half the exchanges and all the big insurance companies are pulling out, they’re losing BIG money.

People here know almost nothing about either candidate, because the traditional press, where they get 90% of their “news” is not reporting it, and are not trying to dig into the pros and cons of both candidates and simply let us decide, which s what they should actually be doing.

So the short answer is no, voters don’t know about Hillary’s commitment to higher taxes, which she will have no choice about. You can’t give people free college education without the taxpayers picking up the bill. That means more taxes. They don’t know it, they don’t look it up, and they don’t think about it. The only way to expand Obamacare will mean increased taxes. they don’t know it and don’t try to find out.

Low information voters.

Dear Washington,

America is coming,

and they’re bringing Donald J Trump.


40 posted on 08/30/2016 8:51:59 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.)
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