Posted on 12/29/2011 12:47:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Ah, but of course. All those undecided Iowans and unenthusiastic Republicans across the country lack but one thing: The nudge in a particular direction only a Donald Trump endorsement could provide. Never mind that Trump’s attempt to moderate a debate collapsed. Never mind that every time he reenters the discussion, somebody’s bound to bring up his birtherism to the detriment of his broader message. Never mind that, last week, he changed his party affiliation to “unaffiliated” to preserve his right to run for president of himself as an independent. “Millions of people” still look to Trump to decide which of the current GOP candidates they support — at least according to Trump. The Washington Post reports:
“Everybody wants it,” Trump, referring to his endorsement, said in a phone interview. “I have millions of people waiting for me to do it.”
Trump’s outsize confidence in himself as both kingmaker and potential king should make any serious presidential candidate wary of being endorsed by him, some political scientists say.
“Outsize confidence” barely begins to describe it. Just to ascribe that much importance to any endorsement reflects a misunderstanding of the very nature of endorsements, at least according to some polls.
In general, most Americans say endorsements are not important to them in deciding whom to support for president. In a 2007 Gallup poll, the latest numbers on the subject, 61 percent said endorsements from “prominent people” are not important to their decisions, while 37 percent said they were important, including 16 percent who said they were very important. Democrats were somewhat more likely to say endorsements mattered.
Endorsements from celebrities, such as Trump, appear even less critical. In a 2007 Washington Post-ABC News poll, nearly nine in 10 Americans said candidate endorsements from entertainment figures or celebrities made only a little difference or none at all; 11 percent said they mattered a great amount or a good deal.
Whatever he says, Trump’s endorsement is unlikely to prove an exception: According to a September Fox News poll, 71 percent of Republicans say Donald Trump’s endorsement wouldn’t make much of a difference to them — and 18 percent actually said it would make them less likely to support Trump’s favored candidate.
you’ll have to find some other ‘good’ thing about romney...if you can.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/183971-romney-meets-privately-with-trump
Romney meets privately with Trump
By Alicia M. Cohn - 09/26/11 04:46 PM ET
Mitt Romney met with business magnate Donald Trump on Monday in New York City, but dodged media coverage.
“We hit it off really well,” Trump said of Romney on CNN. “We agreed on a lot of things.”
Romney visited Trump’s office at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in the afternoon, but his entrance and exit were kept secret. The meeting ended after about an hour, at about 3 p.m., according to MSNBC.
“It was deliberate. We wanted to keep it as private as we could,” Trump said.
I am waiting—and I want to hear the why he is giving that person his endorsement. I respect Trump—knowing he is an egotist (But what is Obama? Newt? Etc...) I want to hear what he has to say. If he has done something wrong it is in letting up on the President and his birth place.
dick morris joined the Clinton Administration as a senior political adviser and was largely responsible for getting Bill Clinton reelected. Morris never says anything I find interesting or believable.
I just did a quick phone poll in the local area. None of the ‘millions’ are around here...
I think you are confusing Mitt with Paul
Trump wants to host a debate in Iowa, but so far only Newt Gingrich has agreed to take part. Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, Paul called the debate "clown-like," and said he doesn't understand why Republicans take Trump seriously.
"I don’t quite understand the marching to his office," Paul said about several candidates making pilgrimages to see Trump in New York.
Paul may be crazy (and he is) but he is not a Trump groupy like the rest of the GOP field.
Trump’s a dick.
Ego, ergo Donald!
Ego deficiency was never a problem to this guy.
I don’t make a move without hearing from the Kardashians first. Reality TV’s Kennedy family.
STFU, Trump. Shouldn`t you be off overseeing your latest altar to yourself, you self-worshipping POS???
Who in the hell is his pollster’s?
He really can’t be this ignorant. Our could he?
Donald who???
Born with a silver spoon in all of his orifices, he'd have had to have been a total idiot to be unsuccessful in the business world.
Money, contacts, education, decent looking {except his hair}, good athlete and a hard worker. How could he not succeed?
A mook {according to my Sicilian grandmother} is a giant ass, a stupido.
Hey mook, no one except maybe your employees and family give a fat rat's ass about your political endorsement.
Make that 999,999 Trumpy.
Didn’t he used to be a RINO?
Yeah Donald am sitting here on the crapper just waiting for you to run oops here comes a trump now.
“And yet, I am now fascinated by the coiffure after Megan Kelly grabbed the front of it and through tough investigative reporting found it to be real, not a comb-over, and soft, not stiffened by product. How in the heck does it stay perched there if there is no rug and no product? Truthfully, I’m mesmerized.....”
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Velcro is a versatile thing.....
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