Thinking About the Trumpthinkable

The New York Times ^ | November 22, 2015 | Paul Krugman

[2ndDivisionVet]

Alan Abramowitz reads the latest WaPo poll and emails:

Read these results and tell me how Trump doesn’t win the Republican nomination? I’ve been very skeptical about this all along, but I’m starting to change my mind. I think there’s at least a pretty decent chance that Trump will be the nominee.

Here’s why I think Trump could very well end up as the nominee:

1. He’s way ahead of every other candidate now and has been in the lead or tied for the lead for a long time.

2. The only one even giving him any competition right now is Carson who is even less plausible and whose support is heavily concentrated among one (large) segment of the base—evangelicals.

3. Rubio, the great establishment hope now, is deep in third place, barely in double digits and nowhere close to Trump or Carson....

[DoughtyOne]

I agree.

[pogo101]

I'd LOVE to see Trump win, just for the sake of seeing the lamentations

[DouglasKC]

Its going to be Trump in the primary. A significant percentage of Dems will defect to Trump for the national. Its going to be a blow-out.

Especially if Hillary is the nominee. All the hardcore lefties I know are for Bernie Sanders. There is zero interest in Clinton and even animosity. They might not vote for Trump but they sure are not going to make much of an effort to vote for Hillary.