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Trump And The Rust Belt Revenge
Frontpagemag.com ^ | July 1, 2016 | Ari Lieberman

Posted on 07/01/2016 2:55:17 AM PDT by Biggirl

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Donald Trump. The campaign was temporarily sidetracked with ancillary issues involving the ethnicity of a judge presiding over an obscure case that no one really cares about. After scoring significant momentum following his clinching of the GOP nomination, his polling numbers dipped markedly with some polls giving Hillary Clinton a double digit lead. And this week, Nate Silver, who accurately predicted the 2008 and 2012 electoral outcomes, gave Clinton an 80% chance of winning the general election.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clinton; election2016; newyork; trump

1 posted on 07/01/2016 2:55:17 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Those polls predicting a big Clinton victory have a single purpose - to feed a false narrative to support a convention hijack. It is pure manipulation by the media, nothing else.


2 posted on 07/01/2016 3:37:08 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (JFK Wanted To Send Man To Moon - Obama Wants To Send Man To Ladies Room)
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To: NonValueAdded

I predict it will backfire.


3 posted on 07/01/2016 3:41:34 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

Yep. Those darned unintended consequence that the proggies continually suffer from.


4 posted on 07/01/2016 3:48:53 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: Biggirl

Says who? The media? Phony polls? Bollocks!

This 1984 world is looking more & more like we’er being controlled by the same government as in the movie “V for Vendetta”. (one of my all time favorite movies, starring my all time favorite actress, Natalie Portman).

Government propaganda is on the Telly 24/7. Everyone constantly watches, yet they don’t believe what they are being told by the media/government. Still they don’t do anything about it until a hero (V) comes along to inspire them, although he has his own personal reasons, Vengeance.

This is where we are today. The news media is just the propaganda arm of our totally corrupt government. Concocting polls to concoct a story line that Trump has slipped in the polls therefore having “a rough couple of weeks”. And the people exclaim BOLLOCKS! (BULL$HIT as we like to say on this side of the pond).

I just hope that enough people see through this malarkey and embrace OUR hero, Donald J Trump.

Thank you Lord for bringing forward this man, at this time, to give us a chance to save our nation that you have blessed from its beginning. We have taken your gleaming city on a hill and turned it into Sodom and Gomorrah and yet you give us one last chance to save our nation. Understanding that it will take our own free will, that you have given to us, to accomplish this task. Please Lord give us the strength and wisdom we need, along with your help and guidance, to save our nation from the evil that is consuming it. We ask and pray these things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, Amen.


5 posted on 07/01/2016 3:49:42 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Biggirl; NonValueAdded; 2ndDivisionVet

The person that wrote this article is grabbing at straws...

Other articles say that Clinton can’t beat Trump.

See this article (h/t 2nddivisionvet)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3445349/posts?page=1#1

Especially this one (h/t 2nddivisionvet)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3445347/posts?page=1#1


6 posted on 07/01/2016 3:52:26 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: faucetman

I have one minor quibble with your awesome post. You said “The news media is just the propaganda arm of our totally corrupt government.” I think it’s more like both the media AND our totally corrupt government are just the propaganda arm of the globalist elite.

Beyond that, amen to your posting.


7 posted on 07/01/2016 3:57:57 AM PDT by Vision Thing (Vote Trump!)
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To: WildHighlander57

“Other articles say that Clinton can’t beat Trump.”

Yep, any article definitively giving us the future history are pure propaganda.

Interestingly, I think the liberals sabotage themselves by predicting huge wins for their candidates. This causes poorly motivated voters to stay home, get high and eat pizza and sauerkraut instead of voting. Then they wonder why they lose. I much prefer the stories that have the Republican losing as it motivates Republicans to get a babysitter and go vote.


8 posted on 07/01/2016 3:59:46 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: faucetman
Thank you Lord for bringing forward this man, at this time, to give us a chance to save our nation that you have blessed from its beginning.

You'd have to go back to 1980 to match the enthusiasm I have for voting this year.

9 posted on 07/01/2016 4:05:28 AM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: Flick Lives

Many people feel the same way, but there is no doubt that there are masses of voters at this point who care nothing about the economy (never mind abortion, religious liberty, etc.). Good jobs mean nothing to people from families that haven’t worked in 50 years; they are unscathed by ObamaCare (with Medicaid coverage), and basically want more of the same.

Romney’s loss in 2012 was disturbing because while he wasn’t a great candidate, his opponent was a proven failure. The disturbing part was that Obama’s failures had 0 impact on more than half of voters...


10 posted on 07/01/2016 4:22:36 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Romney’s loss in 2012 was disturbing because while he wasn’t a great candidate, his opponent was a proven failure. The disturbing part was that Obama’s failures had 0 impact on more than half of voters...


Quite true. I voted for Romney (something I loath to admit now), but I sure wasn’t enthusiastic about him. Obviously many more were less enthusiastic to the point of not voting at all.


11 posted on 07/01/2016 4:33:02 AM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: Biggirl
re>Nate Silver, who accurately predicted the 2008 and 2012 electoral outcomes

Not some amazing feat at all.

12 posted on 07/01/2016 4:38:51 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: Biggirl

“It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Donald Trump.” Really? In whose eyes? Trump has started to move and the news has been ALL bad for the Felon. So in whose eyes has Trump had a “rough couple of weeks?” STOP accepting their narrative!!


13 posted on 07/01/2016 4:39:24 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Biggirl

Backfire for sure. Hillary “leading” will probably convince the typical Dem voter that their vote isn’t critical while the Trump voter will “crawl over broken glass” to vote. Trump voters know the media is lying and don’t trust the polls. After all, how can those polls be right when Donald Trump can draw 20,000 to a rally on two days notice while Hillary has trouble getting a few hundred? Everyone’s talking about Trump, good or bad. He is the conversation. That means he’s the winner.


14 posted on 07/01/2016 5:45:41 AM PDT by captain_dave
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To: NonValueAdded

These polls are all +10, +12, demcoRAT over-samples.

28% Rep
40% Dem
32% Ind

is the norm on most of these polls that show Killery leading.


15 posted on 07/01/2016 6:05:14 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: WildHighlander57

I suspect Operation Kick Hillary to the Curb is already well underway at the DNC.


16 posted on 07/01/2016 6:14:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: NonValueAdded; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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17 posted on 07/01/2016 7:49:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: All

The truth is that we are seeing a movement towards taking this country back. The Brexit vote is a preview.


18 posted on 07/01/2016 8:05:44 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

Rust-belt, fly-over-country, rednecks, Bible-belt — however they want to characterize it, it’s basically Whitey and conservatives of all stripes.


19 posted on 07/01/2016 8:08:35 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: Flick Lives

I voted for him as well (also holding my nose); incredible that so many people not just stayed home, but also voted for Otoken. A real omen of things to come, and a real indicator of what had already happened to this country and its people...


20 posted on 07/01/2016 11:41:07 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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