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Trump thinks he can win without get-out-the-vote operation
American Thinker ^ | December 26, 2015 | Ed Straker

Posted on 12/26/2015 10:43:34 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump seems to think he has revolutionized political campaigns. Without spending much money, he is on top of the national polls but is behind in Iowa and losing ground according to some polls in New Hampshire. Trump is running a campaign without spending money on polling, paid advertisements, or get-out-the-vote efforts. He probably views it as cost-effective, but it may end up costing him the nomination.

His long-promised “next phase” defined by new spending, such as a wave of television commercials, has so far failed to materialize, week after week. His advisers have not revealed the existence of any pollsters on their staff or any advertising team. He has no real research operation to examine his own vulnerabilities or those of his opponents and, based on Federal Election Commission filings, little in the way of a voter contact operation to identify and turn out his supporters.

Mr. Trump had hurt himself in Iowa by not augmenting his news presence with a parallel effort to push his message through ads, mailers and phone banks. “Such an effort would have also inoculated him from attack,” he said....

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Iowa; New Hampshire; New York; Campaign News
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; elections; groundgame; immigration; iowa; newhampshire; newyork; trump; trumpiswrong; trumpwasright; wronginsomanyways
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So... he’s like Romney.


21 posted on 12/26/2015 11:04:51 AM PST by rwilson99 (Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nobody can play rope-a-dope like Trump.


Yup


22 posted on 12/26/2015 11:06:58 AM PST by samtheman (Only Trump can beat the Saudi-funded Fraud Machine in the general election.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Members who own Goldman Sachs shares: 18

Boehner, John (R-OH)
Cantor, Eric (R-VA)
Carper, Tom (D-DE)
Collins, Susan M (R-ME)
Cruz, Ted (R-TX)
Duckworth, Tammy (D-IL)

Frankel, Lois J (D-FL)
Kingston, Jack (R-GA)
Marchant, Kenny (R-TX)
McCaul, Michael (R-TX)
Mullin, Markwayne (R-OK)
Peters, Gary (D-MI)

Rahall, Nick (D-WV)
Roe, Phil (R-TN)
Rogers, Hal (R-KY)
Schneider, Brad (D-IL)
Vitter, David (R-LA)
Whitehouse, Sheldon (D-RI)

Much more information on your Wall Street owned Ted Cruz:

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000085


23 posted on 12/26/2015 11:10:18 AM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes indeed Mr Trump should exactly replicate the campaign techniques of presidents mclame and Romney. Oh wait...


24 posted on 12/26/2015 11:11:25 AM PST by lovesdogs (Think Mr Trump can't make Mexico pay for the wall? He made the media give him a free campaign.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

American Thinker still having their Trump meltdown, I see. ;-)

I wonder if the author of this article is affiliated with of one of these ‘consultant groups’ that Trump hasn’t paid.

This is getting more fun, each day, to watch.


25 posted on 12/26/2015 11:11:46 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Catsrus

Ouch!


26 posted on 12/26/2015 11:12:16 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he doesn’t GOTV, he will fail. It’s that simple. Polls don’t vote.


27 posted on 12/26/2015 11:12:24 AM PST by Darren McCarty (Cruz in 2016 - No Trump. No Jeb.)
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To: Red Steel

You stole my thunder.

No one knows what Trump is up to except Trump.

I simply am astonished at the arrogance of these know-it-all writers who claim to know what Trump is doing. If they did they would be in Trump’s shoes.

Trump is at the top and these writers claim to know what Trump should be doing better than Trump. Amazing!


28 posted on 12/26/2015 11:13:17 AM PST by GilGil
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To: Colonel_Flagg
The day will come when Trump will wish he had Cruz’s organization

Cruz has been LEGITIMATELY organizing at least since May.

29 posted on 12/26/2015 11:14:41 AM PST by Darren McCarty (Cruz in 2016 - No Trump. No Jeb.)
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To: Jane Long

That seems to be the undercurrent of this guy’s complaint. He is basically saying, “The consultants gots to get paid!”


30 posted on 12/26/2015 11:14:44 AM PST by Vision Thing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL! I’ve never received a Christmas Card in the mail from a candidate!

He didn’t ask for a damn dime. I call that get out the vote.


31 posted on 12/26/2015 11:15:11 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Jane Long

No holds barred - I take no prisoners.


32 posted on 12/26/2015 11:15:26 AM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: lone star annie
As I drive around NH I see Trump signs, Carson Signs, and the Libertarian signs, I see none of the others.

I see a lot of the Vermont Communist signs but no Hitlery signs. Things will change as we get closer to the election.

I haven't wandered over to the land of the Masshole infiltrators on the 93 corridor but I expect is much the same.

33 posted on 12/26/2015 11:16:11 AM PST by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump seems to think he has revolutionized political campaigns.

“Seems” being the operative word there.

Trump may think that way for now. If he needs to adjust that thinking, he will. He does so constantly on all issues. That’s how entrepreneurs do operate. They are like generals, they absorb what’s happening on the ground and adjust as needed. In the meantime they advance, advance, advance without mercy. Think Patton.


34 posted on 12/26/2015 11:18:04 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Trump and/or Cruz, it's all good.)
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To: Vision Thing

That was my take ;-)


35 posted on 12/26/2015 11:18:24 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: alloysteel

“The Donald IS the “get-out-the-vote” operation.”

It’s hard to believe how brain dead some of these elitists are. It’s practically beating them over the head but they still can get a clue.


36 posted on 12/26/2015 11:19:43 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: Little Bill

I’m in Texas...and I see Trump bumper stickers, along the highways between Central and SE TX. I see a few Bernie stickers in Houston and Austin.

No other stickers....not even CRuz.


37 posted on 12/26/2015 11:21:08 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If true, his arrogance could be his downfall.


38 posted on 12/26/2015 11:21:42 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Vision Thing
That seems to be the undercurrent of this guy’s complaint. He is basically saying, “The consultants gots to get paid!”

I think you nailed. That is what I was thinking. The uniparty is a parasite that demands to be fed.
39 posted on 12/26/2015 11:21:51 AM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: Jane Long

So most of the politicians — except for Trump — are begging for money, and their consultants are, too. :)


40 posted on 12/26/2015 11:22:11 AM PST by Vision Thing
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