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(Trump) strongest primary performance in modern history
The Week ^ | 01/21/16 | Noah Millman

Posted on 01/21/2016 9:57:12 AM PST by entropy12

r months, the press and the Republican establishment alike have been expecting the Trump bubble to implode. Now that it is clear Trump is not going anywhere, we are seeing stories about a long slog of a campaign or even a brokered convention. But there is a very real possibility that, far from those kinds of days of reckoning, Donald Trump could actually RUN THE TABLE. Ironically, Trump not only could win — he could win more decisively than any non-incumbent Republican contestant for the nomination since the dawn of the modern primary system.

New Hampshire

First, let us look not at Iowa, but at New Hampshire. Trump has been leading in New Hampshire by double-digits since August. If those polls are to believed, Trump is poised not only to win, but to win decisively.

Conventional wisdom is that whichever establishment-friendly candidate places second — at this point John Kasich is lined up behind Trump, but Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, and even Jeb Bush are all said to have a shot — is going to be Trumps most-viable challenger for the nomination. But if Donald Trump dominates with 30 to 40 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, and they come in 15 to 20 points behind, how is that possible?

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


TOPICS: Campaign News; Polls
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To: nickcarraway

Get back to me after super Tuesday, March 15th.


21 posted on 01/21/2016 10:17:43 AM PST by entropy12 (Rafael Cruz 100% eligible as natural born Canada citizen!! SCOTUS might clear his USA NBC status.)
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To: Proud2BeRight

At least Trump is SAYING what we want to hear. The last two nominees not only wouldn’t say what we want to hear, one of them told us what NOT to say. Remember McCain told us not to say “Hussein”?


22 posted on 01/21/2016 10:18:11 AM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: The Iceman Cometh
it's likely the messenger.

Or people are afraid that if Cruz gets the nomination, the Dems will step up the "he's not eligible" meme and get him disqualified. They are dirty and underhanded and it's hard to take that chance.

23 posted on 01/21/2016 10:18:21 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! Trump and Cruz, abolish the GOPe!)
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To: longfellow

Historical, record breaking, primary performance?
That gives Trump every right to stand tall. Give me one solitary reason why he should not be proud of such performance!


24 posted on 01/21/2016 10:19:41 AM PST by entropy12 (Rafael Cruz 100% eligible as natural born Canada citizen!! SCOTUS might clear his USA NBC status.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

I’d rather not hear something when that something is a lie/con/BS entertainment.


25 posted on 01/21/2016 10:20:36 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: entropy12

I didn’t say he shouldn’t be proud. I said it will make his head bigger. Thank God for the comb over, he can unravel it to cover the expansion.


26 posted on 01/21/2016 10:22:49 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Proud2BeRight

Neither do I want to hear some rino tell me how I should think and should vote for him just because he’s a republican. And that’s the choices we had with McCain and Romney.


27 posted on 01/21/2016 10:28:02 AM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: entropy12

My nose is sore from having to pinch it so hard every two and four years. I have voted straight republican ticket for several election cycles, and what has been the result, Dole, McCain, Romney, and a host of senators and representatives who do absolutely nothing that they promised.

Trump is far from the perfect candidate, because the perfect candidate would agree with me 100 percent, but I’m willing to give him my vote. If he disappoints me, it won’t be the first time, and it won’t be the last. All I know is that the country cannot afford another 0bama term, and that is what the dems are offering, and Trump, from what I’ve seen and heard, is the only one who is willing to fight to win, and not just lose gracefully, and go home and write a book about it.


28 posted on 01/21/2016 10:30:14 AM PST by euram
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To: entropy12

that’s a very good article


29 posted on 01/21/2016 10:31:40 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: euram

If trump disappoints me over screwing the middle class as all career politicians have done WITHOUT EXCEPTION, there will be no individual more furious than entropy12.


30 posted on 01/21/2016 10:44:54 AM PST by entropy12 (Rafael Cruz 100% eligible as natural born Canada citizen!! SCOTUS might clear his USA NBC status.)
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To: longfellow

I can not disagree with you that Trump is a bombastic, speak his mind, no holds barred, businessman who has donated to any politician who could destroy his business.

But with $20,000,000,000,000 national debt, 94 million American adults without jobs, 45 million on food stamps, 11 million illegals in the country, ISIS still around and growing, terrorism all over the world by radical Islamists, time is long past to elect another career politician who changes with the wind, and in the pockets of his/her ultra-rich donors.

We need a leader who is not controlled by the rich donor class, and is FEARLESS to take on the media. Which is why I support Trump with all his flaws and all his strengths.


31 posted on 01/21/2016 10:51:37 AM PST by entropy12 (Rafael Cruz 100% eligible as natural born Canada citizen!! SCOTUS might clear his USA NBC status.)
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To: CAluvdubya

One of the things that upset me the most about Bush is that he always ‘took the high road’. As the left attacked him with outright lies, he just carried on. He refused to defend himself or to take them down a notch.

And, by extension, he was refusing to defend US - his supporters.

His silence left us out in the cold. We ended up with talk radio as our voice. Not our elected leader.

I know that it’s not the president’s job to deal with all of the media clap trap, but sheesh. Every once in awhile, it would’ve been nice to have a snarling bear in our corner.

I *want* a president who says, “These people are immoral LIARS.” How refreshing that would be.


32 posted on 01/21/2016 10:55:04 AM PST by Marie ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8c2Cq-vpg)
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To: entropy12
more from the article...

No non-incumbent has won both the GOP's Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary since the dawn of the modern primary system. Trump has a real shot to be the first. And no recent candidate has overcome the kind of deficit most of the other candidates face in both national and state-by-state numbers at this late date, against a candidate with as strong and stable numbers as Trump has, and gone on to win.

33 posted on 01/21/2016 10:56:40 AM PST by entropy12 (Rafael Cruz 100% eligible as natural born Canada citizen!! SCOTUS might clear his USA NBC status.)
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To: euram

“Trump, from what I’ve seen and heard, is the only one who is willing to fight to win, and not just lose gracefully, and go home and write a book about it.”

EXACTLY.

(had to be said again!)


34 posted on 01/21/2016 10:57:31 AM PST by Marie (TRUMP TRUTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8c2Cq-vpg)
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To: ConservativeDude

Glad you think so. It is a very good analysis of this 2016 primary race.


35 posted on 01/21/2016 11:02:13 AM PST by entropy12 (Rafael Cruz 100% eligible as natural born Canada citizen!! SCOTUS might clear his USA NBC status.)
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To: euram

Hear here...good post. Matches my voting history.


36 posted on 01/21/2016 11:03:20 AM PST by entropy12 (Rafael Cruz 100% eligible as natural born Canada citizen!! SCOTUS might clear his USA NBC status.)
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To: entropy12

The resistance must be defeated.


37 posted on 01/21/2016 11:06:39 AM PST by McGruff
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To: usafa92
But wait! Where’s surging Ted??

With his legal team

Election commission looking at his :forgotten" loans

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3386614/posts

38 posted on 01/21/2016 11:10:12 AM PST by spokeshave (Happy Christmas and a New Year that Trumps all.)
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To: entropy12

ANYONE with the exception of democraps would be better than what we have now.


39 posted on 01/21/2016 11:10:31 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: TomGuy

Mar 1 - 14 all 26 primaries are all proportional and
beginning on Mar. 15 it becomes a mix.

SC of the four early states is a winner take all the other three proportional.


40 posted on 01/21/2016 11:17:53 AM PST by deport
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