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Donald Trump’s ground game may be more robust than you think
Washington Post ^ | 11/07/2016 | Philip Bump

Posted on 11/07/2016 8:46:11 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas

If lawn signs are any guide, Donald Trump will win Pennsylvania in a landslide. In and between Scranton and Bucks County, Pa., on Sunday, I counted more than 20 Donald Trump-Mike Pence signs plus a few bigger-than-average signs and one digital billboard. I saw precisely no Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine signs; even Gary Johnson signs outnumbered Clinton's.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: pa2016
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Folks, we have to Believe!
1 posted on 11/07/2016 8:46:11 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

WOW. GO TRUMP.


2 posted on 11/07/2016 8:49:01 PM PST by nwrep
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Have you already voted?


3 posted on 11/07/2016 8:49:02 PM PST by Ravi
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To: Ravi

Before I sign off for tonight, I want to recognize 2 individuals this election season.

1). Senator Bob Dole. When other REP “elders” and politicians skipped the Republican Convention, Senator Dole with his failing health was there. Character matters.

2). Vice-President Joe Biden. Yes ole Joe. When asked what he would do if Trump won, he said “extend a hand”.

See ya all tomorrow for the big day.


4 posted on 11/07/2016 8:50:24 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

A ground game means passing out Trump Campaign Badges ($20 bills) and bussing people to the polls.

Joe Kennedy did that in Illinois to get his kid elected.


5 posted on 11/07/2016 8:50:54 PM PST by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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To: Ravi

On October 24th. First day of early voting. Stood in line for 30 minutes. I’ve never had a line before. People are interested.


6 posted on 11/07/2016 8:51:29 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“I saw precisely no Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine signs; even Gary Johnson signs outnumbered Clinton’s.”

Hahahahaha. It would only take one Gary Johnson sign to out number as Hillary sign.


7 posted on 11/07/2016 8:51:32 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I drive through Chester every day on the way to work. I only saw my first Hillary sign last week — before then I had no idea what they even looked like. And the sign was on public property (just before the on-ramp to I-95). I see a lot of signs for local Dem candidates, but NO Hillary signs.


8 posted on 11/07/2016 8:53:16 PM PST by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Hillary Clinton is about to get thrashed in Biden’s home of northeastern Pennsylvania. Even if she wins the election, Biden has to know deep down inside that his tenure in Washington has been a complete betrayal of his roots.


9 posted on 11/07/2016 8:55:39 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Parley Baer

In Central Florida just outside UCF my Trump sign became tattered and beat up. Someone walked up a couple Saturdays ago and asked if we were a Trump house. Wife said 4 voters strong so he put a sign in our yard and another house. I can’t tell if the other neighbors took one or not we are all on 1 acre


10 posted on 11/07/2016 8:56:02 PM PST by techworker
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To: Alberta's Child

Trump was very smart to go to Scranton today. That’s always been a swing portion of PA.


11 posted on 11/07/2016 8:57:06 PM PST by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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Thread title misleading. The article paints a negative view of Trump’s GOTV while making Hitlery’s look robust. Waste of time to read.


12 posted on 11/07/2016 9:00:44 PM PST by bereanrabbi
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I don't think it's going to be a "swing" portion of PA at all. I see a disaster there for Clinton.

She does, too. That's why all of the top Democrats have been practically camped in Philadelphia for weeks -- trying to drive up voter turnout there to offset losses across the rest of the state.

13 posted on 11/07/2016 9:02:19 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: RinaseaofDs

Joe Kennedy did that in Illinois to get his kid elected.

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I hope you’re not saying that voter fraud in Illinois got J.F.K. elected president because that would be untrue.

Yes, I can prove it.


14 posted on 11/07/2016 9:11:24 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: bereanrabbi

We’ll see.

Most of the polls and pundits are pointing to a Hillary win. Trump has a tremendously passionately devoted following though.

He will need them to show up en masse in greater numbers than the pundits are predicting. I think it is definitely possible.

I pray it happens. The survival of our nation depends on it.


15 posted on 11/07/2016 9:14:20 PM PST by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: RinaseaofDs

“Joe Kennedy did that in Illinois to get his kid elected.”

He sure did. Democrat cheating at its finest.


16 posted on 11/07/2016 9:20:11 PM PST by Swede Girl
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To: RinaseaofDs

And his squirrel-toothed son joked about it:
“The old man said, ‘Ah, son, I don’t want to buy any landslide’.”
Da Mare and Linda Bane Johnson, precinct 13 in Texas. Nixon should have fought.


17 posted on 11/07/2016 9:21:33 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

People keep making the argument that Trump’s large crowd sizes don’t mean anything, because Romney drew huge crowds too, and Obama’s rallies weren’t that big.

The flaw of this argument is that Obama drew huge crowds when he first ran for POTUS in ‘08. In ‘12, he was the incumbent.

I don’t ever remember incumbents crisscrossing the country and holding lots of campaign rallies. They are busy acting Presidential, and hoping that the electorate will reward them with another term, based on satisfaction with their first term.

For incumbents, it’s all about their convention speech, the debates, and first term job performance. Campaign rallies aren’t such a big deal for them.

This is not the case with Hillary. A majority of Americans believed Hillary would be our next POTUS at the beginning of the ‘08 primary season, based on nothing more than the media trying to push her as “inevitable”. Obama stole her thunder, because there was never any enthusiasm for her outside of the media. And there’s even less enthusiasm for her this time around.

She’s not an incumbent. If she can’t draw crowds at this juncture in her political career, then it means there’s just no enthusiasm for her, period.


18 posted on 11/07/2016 9:25:21 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

If these numbers are accurate - (heavy black population?) - it’s unlikely to be an outliar at such a ‘blow out’ -

Good omen? If states they haven’t been concentrating on do this, they’ll be hesitant to flip the ‘rig’ switch as it would be far too obvious?

(I’d like to see the witch perp walked - along with the whole kit and caboodle - but if not - it will make me smile thinking of her spending the rest of days with the fact that she will NEVER be president - or any other gov’t job - after all the plotting, killing, corruption of 30 years, clawing her way to get to the top

http://www.bing.com/search?q=alabama+2016+presidential+polls&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IENTSR

http://www.bing.com/search?q=alabama+2016+presidential+polls&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IENTSR


19 posted on 11/07/2016 9:34:45 PM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

The RNC’s ground game is Trump’s ground game and they have been at it in Florida since right after the primaries. Another MSM lie and they have been repeating it since the primaries were over and still to this day I hear it on MSM.

Maybe it’s best this way...the shock on their faces will be well worth it.


20 posted on 11/07/2016 9:38:16 PM PST by MaxistheBest
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