Posted on 04/21/2016 9:06:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why should anyone vote Republican? There is Trump who raised the same thoughts in the minds of many, many Americans. Trump is being pilloried for those thoughts e.g. Americans are getting screwed by trade agreements, world policeman, illegal immigration, and no representation of the middle class working people. Without Trump there is no one to take up their cause. No one, period. Up yours, GOP, if you don’t like Trump, find another one.
Reagan can never beat Carter. The above cited poll proves it.
Right now Trump is going to lose.
Heck, any of them would lose.
But at least he’ll go down fighting.
Which is more than the GOP has given us in the past two elections.
I’m still expecting Cankles to be our next Prez.
I’ve said that since the fall and nothing to date has changed my view.
The prediction markets agree with me.
See! More proof that even Trump supporters agree he’s been covered by the press at least 25 times more than Cruz has.
(all of it negative)
Before you discount a coming campaign, had you not better consider the past performance of a candidate? What do we know about Donald Trump's ability to deal with a seemingly unstoppable candidate--not damaged goods like Hillary Clinton--but a President's brother, with overwhelming support among a political establishment, and a sympathetic media--say a Jeb Bush?
Once Donald Trump started targeting Jeb Bush--literally, almost within a few days--the odds on favorite for the Republican nomination was in a tail spin. Is there any reason at all to believe that a candidate as damaged as Hillary Clinton--under felony investigation--will prove more durable?
Perhaps, conveniently, people have forgotten how Jeb Bush stood in the polls, last year, before the active interaction between the Republican candidates began. Some of us still remember!
This Ronald Radosh?
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John.
Kasich.
Could.
Be.
DA.
MAN!
We all have to be aware of those. On the other hand, it is utterly absurd to think that Cruz, who couldn’t carry the REPUBLICAN nomination in FL (couldn’t carry a single county) or carry a single OH county, or a single NY county, who lost Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Arizona, Nevada, Virginia . . . in other words, the very states we would have to have to win a general election . . . can beat Cankles.
Ditto for Kay-sick, except he carried OH-—but lost MI, FL, AZ, NC, SC, and on and on.
So, the polling in question always and only has to be Trump. He’s the only one that matters. Is there reason to suspect some of it? Certainly at this time. The poll you cite of previous years were much later in the campaign year when it was one on one. We aren’t there yet.
But the point is, the other two options are worse in terms of the electoral college.
Yup.
The demographics in this country favor the Democrat in a presidential election.
Hillary has a solid blue firewall in states like CA, IL, NY, PA.
And from there all she has to do is pick up swing states like OH and FL to get 270.
That’s the only math that will really matter in November.
All Kasich had to do to win in Ohio was be not-Ted Strickland.
Nationally the bar will be set much, much higher.
Yeah, I’m probably a little too cynical, but I’m seeing an almost exact duplication of the same attitudes we saw two years ago. I was laughed at, yelled at and called names for even suggesting that the polls were maybe something we should pay attention to. I really hope I’m wrong, but I don’t see how either Cruz or Trump can win with their negatives. And these are the numbers before Clinton’s oppo team and the media train their guns on them full time.
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I don’t see Trump winning, either. You have to be able to appeal to women voters. And his negatives are almost comically high. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m seeing too many people thinking this is going to be a cake walk and I’m hearing almost verbatim claims of winning that I heard 4 and 8 years ago. It’s in my nature to be nervous.
Hillary’s negatives are high as Trump.
She has vulnerabilities. Anyway, at this point in time the odds favor her.
Trump is going to have do a lot of work to make himself electable.
If he can’t do it, no one can.
Yes! Hillary may seem as strong you as Jeb seemed in June of 2015. She is not one whit more electable—and she is certainly no solid blue conservative.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3422096/posts (My suggestion for how to turn her campaign upside down, very quickly.)
That’s the one bright spot I’m kind of clinging to.
“The stupidity of the smartest people in the room has to be seen to be believed.”
Many went to Harvard & Yale.
Sadly, Rove is paid millions by Establishment people to deliberately lose elections.
“See! More proof that even Trump supporters agree he’s been covered by the press at least 25 times more than Cruz has.
(all of it negative)”
But....Cruzers say Trump had a free ride with the MSM and print media. I mean, look at the WSJ/Fox, and National Review !
Fools....
Yep! Exactly right!
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