Posted on 12/17/2016 8:28:46 AM PST by Hojczyk
Top pollster Frank Luntz – who was not a Trump supporter – told Sean Hannity tonight that Trump could create a permanent Republican majority.
Frank Luntz: I did not think Trump had a good chance. But I thought he was absolutely viable because of what he said and how he said it… If Trump can keep this majority of these new voters who have never voted Republican before and bring back some of those Republicans from the suburbs who voted for Clinton but voted Republican all the way down the line this is a long term majority. He has a chance to change politics as we know it if he can keep both of these two groups together and he has the ability to do it.
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His biggest challenge for republicans to gain long-term control are clowns like McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Paul Ryan. The GOP DC establishment is the challenge.
Fox’s Bill O’Reilly has the ‘young demographic’... the 16 to 25 year olds...(or there abouts). That’s a huge culture shift.
It’s the canary in the political coal mine...
A demographic change has happened - boomers finally getting old. Power’s shifting away from ‘the young’ and their ‘ideals’ - - to ‘the adults’. It will stay that way forever (barring a major war - in which case all bets are off anyhow)... it means ‘grown ups’ of the Republican party will stay in power until democrats figure out their childlike ways are politically offensive... Which is NOT going to happen. Frank Luntz senses the change but he’s not sure why it’s happening.
“This may bery well be true, but Luntz is and always has been a complete idiot.”
Agreed. His takes during this election cycle were about as useless as Dick Morris in 2012, and that is quite an accomplishment. The Luntz focus group crap is overdone and meaningless TV theatrics
Fuck. Frank. Luntz.
Tausendjähriges Reich
Evangelical Christians in America realize that we don't have much time, or chances, if we continue to embrace evil.
Homosexuality. Abortion. Celebration of every false religion while simultaneously persecuting Christians. Lawlessness under the guise of "racial" protest. We're definitely in our last days as a nation otherwise.
After 2012 not many here would have guessed what has transpired this year. There are always so many unpredictables in the mix and Trump is more unpredictable than most. I am hopeful for the future but won’t be sure of what is coming down the pike. Let us be content to let the future unfold at its own pace.
He has a long history of saying things and carrying them through to completion ...I daresay, even things that he may have regretted saying, his pride and determination will force him to do what he said.
A little over 48 hours from now a pall will have lifted from The USA.
Bush (either of them) had no interest in change, they wanted DC status quo.
You seem to endow one or more contemporary generations of Republicans with powers not easily seen. The “adults” in the room *ARE* the Boomers - just look at Trump and his Cabinet. With the exception of his children and a few others, the Millenials and GenXers have failed utterly to step up and provide leadership - let me just suggest Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Paul Ryan as some of the leading examples of such failure.
If the 16- to 25 year olds who are not presently on the radar politically are to fill the void, that’s great. But they’re going to need to rally around Trump and ideas like capitalism and educate themselves in the ways of business and commerce, accepting the basic inequality that exists in a free market nation, and putting aside their childish whining about “fairness” and an all-seeing all-feeling big brother government that provides “free stuff” like tuition and health care and start becoming producers, not just eaters.
And he has become a bit of a ‘heavyweight’.
Appearing on air last night, if he had worn orange, he could be a stand in for Charlie Brown’s “Great Pumpkin”
M. Moore level? Not yet, but well on his way.
You are wrong. In George W. Bush’s first midterm elections in 2002, Republicans gained seats in both the House and Senate. That was the first time since FDR’s first midterm election that the president’s party gained seats. Republicans also gained in W’s reelection in 2004. It was the second midterm in 2006 that was so disastrous.
In 2008 Republicans lost more House and Senate seats when Obama was elected. In 2010 Republicans regained the House.
Fun fact: Donald Trump, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton all were born in the first year of the Baby Boom (1946-1964), all three within a ten-week period during June-August 1946.
The U.S. will have a stretch of at least 28 years, 1993-2021, in which the President will be a baby boomer (Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump), all born within a 16-year period (1946-1961).
The longest stretch of presidents all born in such a short time period was 32 years, 1961-1993, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, all born within a 17-year period (1908-1924).
Oddly, the birth years in between those two runs, the 21 years of 1925-1945, have produced no presidents, the longest such drought in U.S. history.
Well that’s not what I heard Frank Luntz say.
Here at about minute 50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktx8YfHkWU0
on election night, on CBS, Luntz says the Hispanics were highly insulted and Trump couldn’t win.
“The Republican party in general and Donald Trump in particular cannot win when you are only getting 25-30 percent of the Hispanic vote.”
I believe Trump got around 28 percent. The Republican party in general and Trump in particular did a good day’s work, by daybreak they were looking at control of all three branches of government and a majority of the governorships too.
Luntz was doing a post-mortem on Trump in the first hour of election night coverage. Nobody on any of the major networks was doing otherwise between 7 and 8pm ET.
If he has Hillary Clinton arrested the day after the inauguration, I may join you in your devotion. If not, I will remain cautiously optimistic.
Free Traitors are a figment of your deranged mind
Rand Paul (b. 1963) is a baby boomer. Ryan (b. 1970) and Cruz (b. 1970) are not.
Also, see my post 53, on the closeness in age of baby boomers Trump, Bush, and Clinton.
I’m talking about the demographic shift in the population - not the folks running for office.
My mind, Trump's mind and George Washington's mind. I am in good company.
You OTH share company with Karl Marx who is another famous Free Traitor™.
The thank you tour should also include some of the states where he lost by a thin margin. Flip a few more states. I wold like to see him win reelection with 350+ E.V.
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