As it was four years ago. That's why I was so upset when Mitt Romney tried running a traditional campaign of the same old, tired "rallies" in which the party faithful in each city gathered to wave signs and cheer on the same old, boring speech.
No passion, just the same old politicking like it was Bob Dole and Jack Kemp back in 1996.
Meanwhile through social media, Obama was conducting a massive GOTV effort and cruised to a relatively easy win.
My weekend update will show that Trump will now have over 4 million Twitter followers, a pickup of nearly 600,000 for August alone. By mid-September, Trump will surpass even Shrillary Clinton in total followers. Remember we are still nearly half a year away from the first primaries and Trump is building a formidable organization. Not just on social media but on the ground.
Trump has made his rallies into mass-media events that millions of people watch on TV and YouTube. Because Trump does not read off a teleprompter and stick to a script, you never know what is going to come out of his mouth. Therefore every appearance is an EVENT. Even the press conferences are entertaining because Trump will take questions from anybody about anything. Have we seen this from any other candidate?
What Trump has brought to the campaign is passion and energy. People may or may not like him and yes, the Republicans have more "pure" conservative choices such as Ted Cruz, but Trump knows how to win.
Kind of along the lines of what you said, I would rather have a candidate WIN who I agree with half the time then to have a candidate LOSE who I agree with all of the time.
Well.said! Not going to throw candidate away again by standing on principles.
That's really funny, because all I've heard around this place for the past four years is how nobody will ever, ever again vote for the lesser of two evils.