Posted on 10/07/2015 6:54:14 PM PDT by Mariner
All signs point to the nation numbing to Donald Trumps shtick. His poll numbers are in a holding pattern and his favorability among Republicans is slipping. His pranks arent as good as they used to be. He isnt tossing out entertainingly insane Trumpisms at the pace he used toor if he is, fewer people are paying attention.
Mr. Trumps ability to command both voter and news media attention simply by being his outlandish, bombastic self is starting to wane, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The Times points to ebbing social media chatter about Trumps hijinks as well as a dip in mentions and appearances on conservative talk radio shows.
Trumps campaign has lived off a strategy of constant free media exposuresomething he earned, we should note, by expressing many newsworthy opinions that a not-insignificant number of human beings found oddly compelling in a presidential candidate. Thats how he has been able to dominate the race after only spending a couple million dollars of his own money. The problem with Trumps strategy, though, is hes created exceedingly high expectations for himself: Unless he keeps upping the ante of bombast, hes going to see a cratering or even collapse in his media coverage.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Trump has not stalled in his campaign. His new book profits are being donated to charity. Every time Trump speaks at another rally, his like-ability and support goes up. His speech in Iowa today was great.
By sheer coincidence, I happened upon this post almost exactly 4 hours after you posted it.
The response counter numbered 217 at the time.
Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is still drawing enormous attention whenever his name is mentioned.
And it wasn't even on the Front Page or Breaking News.
It surprised me.
Tru Dat
see tag line for MDSM.
Thank You!!!
Back then we were all fools enough to think there was a "Conservative" wing in the GOP. Now we know there is just one giant Kleptocracy in DC pretending to be 2 parties that hand power back and forth to keep us rube in the sticks mindlessly cheering for "our side".
I personally think Trump and Cruz are a tag team. I think Trump will choose Cruz as his VP and step aside after one term to get back to being a billionaire.
This is most disturbing.
One of the problems we have is big money buying influence with politicians, yet here you are pulling basically the same crap. Do you think opinions espoused on Free Republic should be judged by the donation level of the person espousing them? Really? Tom Donohue, is that you??
Wish I could disagree with you, but I can’t.
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