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Why a Republican Pollster Is Losing Faith in Her Party (You're the reason, naturally)
The Atlantic ^ | August 31, 2017 | Ronald Brownstein

Posted on 09/01/2017 2:42:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I presume that she’ll repudiate the ethnonationalism of BLM.


21 posted on 09/01/2017 3:06:55 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ms Anderson is a tool.

It’s “M - A - G - A”. That’s “America” in there.

America is NOT interested in what color you are, if you lift the seat or keep it down, or if you have any thoughts on G-d.
America if for American Citizens, of all kinds.

Ms Anderson’s Identity Politics are solidly in the Left column.

BTW- Millenials are WAY more MAGA than many are here being led to believe, notwithstanding Our Dear Kristen

#MAGA
#Build The Wall


22 posted on 09/01/2017 3:06:55 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“If I pack up my toys and go home, there are people in red MAGA hats who would be saying, ‘Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.’”

She says that like it's a "bad thing"?


23 posted on 09/01/2017 3:07:10 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: ifinnegan

In other words, I will work for Democrats, so please hire me.
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More like she’d love to work for Jeb or Marco.


24 posted on 09/01/2017 3:08:10 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At the broader level, what is so crazy about these “concerns” is that the people with with are ignoring the proof of their own eyes, of what actually happened.

They are so afraid how Trump will lower the Republican chances, but Trump won.

And Republicans are increasing their numbers across the country.


25 posted on 09/01/2017 3:08:45 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: reformedliberal

“More like she’d love to work for Jeb or Marco.”

That too.

But I’m assuming that or similar is whom she has been working for.

I didn’t read the article to find out.


26 posted on 09/01/2017 3:10:25 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“If I pack up my toys and go home, there are people in red MAGA hats who would be saying, ‘Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.’”

Oh, boo-hoo! Take your pity party with you.


27 posted on 09/01/2017 3:11:45 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism wiiohout Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: ifinnegan; LS

They are so afraid how Trump will lower the Republican chances, but Trump won.

And Republicans are increasing their numbers across the country.

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Scott Adams calls this phase of Trump’s 1st term, the “deconstruction” phase. The points are, that so far, Trump has demolished the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, the MSM and the internationalist globalist UN contingent in the eyes of the voters. After demolition, comes the rebuilding.

Those new R registrations would re-register with an America First Party if it becomes any more apparent that GOPe and Dems are two sides of the globalist coin. And if Trump heads the new party. Even the hidebound GOPe knows this.

I don’t think Trump will abandon the GOP first and I have no sense of the best timing, but at some point, he will have to.

Don’t forget, not all states require party registration. The source of a lot of the stats are incomplete. LS always cautions us about that.


28 posted on 09/01/2017 3:18:59 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One definite way to make yourself heard in an organization is to go to the hostile media and bash the organization.


29 posted on 09/01/2017 3:19:12 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The party of open borders and Heather Has Two Daddies and a Transister in pre-K?


30 posted on 09/01/2017 3:20:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: reformedliberal

Gen-Xers are the baby bust generation between the Baby Boom and the kids of the Baby Boomers.


31 posted on 09/01/2017 3:21:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“[Massachusetts Governor] Charlie Baker ... I want to be in the party with them.

So she wants to be in a party that eschews conservatism and gets along swell with democrats.
32 posted on 09/01/2017 3:23:12 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It must take a long time for the “reporter” to find a person like this or she is a story teller (IE: fake news)


33 posted on 09/01/2017 3:23:28 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is she a pollster trying to gauge the public’s response or is she a push-poller trying to shape the respondents’ opinions and sell the media on an idea with “numbers” to back up the foregone conclusion?


34 posted on 09/01/2017 3:24:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are a number of problems with Brownstein’s article, but I only want to address one of them.

Kristen, why are the Republicans winning elections and Democrats aren’t?

Deplorables Kristen, deplorables.

That is why you are a poor pollster. You missed the Deplorables.

5.56mm


35 posted on 09/01/2017 3:31:02 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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From her bio;

Kristen Lynne Soltis Anderson is a Republican pollster, television personality, and writer. She has written for The Daily Beast, Politico and The Huffington Post. In 2013 Time magazine named Anderson one of the 30 People Under 30 who are changing the world.

Why is a Republican writing for only left-wing rags and getting recognized by Time magazine?

36 posted on 09/01/2017 3:38:00 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Now she is wondering whether Donald Trump’s GOP has a place for people like her, who want a party that marries support for less government and robust national defense with a commitment to racial and social inclusion. “

Translation: They want you to be poor and to support endless Wars that are not in America’s interest. Oh and on social issues to shut up.

No thanks.

Also the lack of Inclusiveness mantra is a bunch of BS.

She sounds like a bitter never-trumper.


37 posted on 09/01/2017 3:44:03 PM PDT by crusher2013
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Why is a Republican writing for only left-wing rags and getting recognized by Time magazine?

Because she's their house wigger like David what's-his-name of the creased pants.

38 posted on 09/01/2017 3:49:10 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Anderson’s fear is that in a rapidly diversifying America, Trump is stamping the GOP as a party of white racial backlash—and that too much of the party’s base is comfortable with that. Trump’s morally stunted response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this month unsettled her. But she was even more unnerved by polls showing that most Republican voters defended his remarks.

This Anderson dingbat should acknowledge the single most important point that can't be ignored in any discussion about Donald Trump and the future of the Republican Party:

HE WON.

Not only that ... His victory in 2016 was built on winning Rust Belt states that hadn't voted for a Republican presidential candidate in decades.

39 posted on 09/01/2017 3:50:56 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: dirtboy

Just like the democratic is composed of blacks, unemployed, gays and wacked bicoastal liberals.


40 posted on 09/01/2017 3:57:21 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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