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‘Dilbert’ creator believes Donald Trump will win – in a landslide
The Sun Herald ^ | March 23, 2016 | Michael Cavna, The Washington Post

Posted on 03/24/2016 12:40:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Scott Adams remembers just how the game turned. He was young and improving at chess, but the masterful kid across the board would outmaneuver Adams till the game seemed a runaway. Now, this kid didn't want to just beat Adams; he wanted to embarrass him.

"So after he'd picked away three-fourths of my pieces and I was discouraged," Adams recounts, "he would offer to turn the board around and play with my pieces." And then effectively "win" again.

On those occasions, Adams, the creator of "Dilbert," got insight into the type of personality that loves not only the challenge of game strategy, but also the thrill of overwhelming the competition. It is the sport of meticulously plotted domination.

And that is part of why Adams believes Donald Trump will win the presidency. In a landslide.

Adams, in other words, believes that Trump himself has turned the campaign game around. On the stump, the real-estate mogul is not running on the knowledge of his numbers or the dissection of the data. He is running on our emotions, Adams says, and sly appeals to our own human irrationality.

Since last August, in fact, when many were calling Trump's entry a clown candidacy, the "Dilbert" cartoonist was already declaring The Donald a master in the powers of persuasion who would undoubtedly rise in the polls. And last week, Adams began blogging about how Trump can rhetorically dismantle Clinton's candidacy next....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: dilbert; hillary; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Tripe. If you think this is just about Trump you are really mistaken. If you think it'll all get back to "normal" after he's gone you are sadly mistaken. The globalist that run the GOP have had their 40 year destructive run. It's over for them.

This is way bigger than Trump.

41 posted on 03/26/2016 5:34:28 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
I think Rush said something VERY profound the other day, that nobody else has mentioned.

Rush has severe TDS.

42 posted on 03/26/2016 5:35:35 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He is running on our emotions, Adams says, and sly appeals to our own human irrationality.

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?" Trump!

43 posted on 03/27/2016 5:57:57 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: democratsaremyenemy
I don’t know where Beck will go , maybe to the nut house.

It'll be a short trip!

44 posted on 03/27/2016 6:12:48 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: central_va
Rush has severe TDS.

No he doesn't. I listen daily.
45 posted on 03/28/2016 10:05:20 AM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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