Posted on 08/25/2016 5:12:10 AM PDT by Scooter100
Reagan won over Carter in the "so-called" landslide of 1980. In fact, Reagan took 50.7%, to Carter's 41%....not exactly a landslide in my books.
The interesting thing is that the voter turnout for that election was 52.6%. Even for then, that is a lot of humanity "under the covers". Roughly half were untapped. This essentially means that a minority of 25% of the country set policy (for the untapped) for four years.
The untapped half is growingly aware that the voting half of the country is basically divided in two, politically, between two dinosaurs. England's Brexit was a cannon-shot over the bows of the dinosaur fleet. The untapped anti-establishment spoke, and spoke big time. It was the anti-elite, anti-IMF, Nigel Farage who reached those voters.
This is why it was so significant that Trump brought Farage to the stage in Jackson, Miss. yesterday. Contrary to media thinking, Trump is the anti-establishment candidate. Trump's great support will come from the untapped, and he will ride their wave of anti-establishment into the WH.
How do you reach the un-tapped half? You let guys like Nigel Farage speak. His speech was short, but cut to the heart of the Trump movement. Watch it several times...it's the key to reaching the untapped.
Trump introduces Farage at time: 1:08:00 into the clip. Don't miss Nigel, a great speaker.
Trump with Farage, Jackson, Miss., 24 Aug/16
TRUMP/Pence--2016
New York?....um....no. Not a chance.
It wasn’t just the Reagan vote. For the first time in eons, the Republicans took the Senate. It WAS overall a masssive landslide, surpassed only by Reagan’s performance in 1984.
And, since when is a nearly 10% vote difference in a 3-way race, not a landslide.
Trump will not lose his home state, mark my words. He was born in Queens and speaks New Yorkese. Don't be fooled by the media BS saying Clinton won the Senate there easily. She wasn't running against Trump then. New ballgame now.
Not all of NY is NYC.
That would make for a wonderful early election night :)
44 states wasn’t a landslide? Wipeouts are only about five or six points.
Just saw another one posted by NBC: a million and a third people watched it with the entire middle chopped out.
The whole bit about the commentariat and multinational global corporatism and the old men in Brussels and sticking it to the establishment. They jumped right to Obama’s visit.
Again, I posted the whole speech in the Comments.
Very frustrating that people are being cheated this way.
John Anderson I think. He was a RINO that ran third party. Didn’t work.
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