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Donald Trump's bile is a healing balm for spurned Americans
Financial Times ^
| December 27, 2015
| Frank Luntz
Posted on 12/28/2015 10:35:10 AM PST by EveningStar
Those who support him now will support him next November, writes Frank Luntz
Outraged by what Donald Trump says? You are not alone. No high-polling presidential candidate in the modern era has so intrepidly drawn the ire of so many within the American electorate. And there remains no end in sight. Yet in rendering one voting bloc utterly apoplectic, he has appealed viscerally to another. The balance of middle ground politics is not, shall we say, Mr Trump's bailiwick. But America is no longer a middle ground country. We are already scared by our division -- and it is getting worse.
The simple truth is, the more provocative his language, the deeper and more passionate his support. He is no dummy; there is a method to his proverbial madness. Mr Trump says -- to the growing legions who will listen -- what tens of millions of Americans are already thinking. Respect or revile him, the man has hit a vein.
The writer is a pollster and communications adviser
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; financialtimes; frankluntz; immigration; readbeyondheadline; trump; trumpwasright
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To: EveningStar
Donald is doing a good job of expressing our concerns...
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:39:02 AM PST
by
proust
(Texan for Trump!)
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:39:05 AM PST
by
Cen-Tejas
(it's the debt bomb stupid)
To: EveningStar
Without bile we cannot digest some foods.
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:39:26 AM PST
by
Raycpa
To: EveningStar
This election is between the citizens and The Cheap Labor Express.
Most of the candidates are beholden to The Cheap Labor Express.
If we don’t win, we lose our country.
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:39:28 AM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: EveningStar
Who in this focus group thinks Luntz is a Puntz?
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:40:06 AM PST
by
McGruff
(Merry Christmas)
To: EveningStar
No Mr Lutz,
After the Political/Media/Business/Academic class heap bile and abuse on the heads of average Americans for decades, we finally found someone who takes it back to you clowns that you cannot buy or ignore.
It time you all sit down, shut up and start listening for a change.
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:40:35 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
To: EveningStar
Funny, I don’t feel spurned, just upset that so many Americans have gotten mired in stupidity and can’t find their way out.
To: EveningStar
“bile”? Really? Why not “His excrement is a balm”? Really luntz, your 15 is up.
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:42:15 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: EveningStar
This is written by Frank Luntz. The fat muslim censoring slab that Trump refused to hire. I can’t put any effort into reading this. Sorry.
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:44:01 AM PST
by
JFoobar
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:44:56 AM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
(Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
To: EveningStar
Donald Trump’s candidacy is the worst thing ever for the Republican party (and this country).
People, he is NOT a conservative.
A campaign fueled by bile will cause America to rot from within. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan expressing Trump’s attitudes? No, of course you can’t.
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:45:50 AM PST
by
newberger
(Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men in whom there is no salvation.)
To: EveningStar
A very liberal friend says that Trump is willing to say lots of things people are thinking but are unwilling to say due to political correctness.
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:46:56 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Rubio not voting on OmniSpend is RINO for 'smart'.)
To: Lurkinanloomin
Agreed and agreed. But power does what it wants. My money is on the Cheap Labor Express, but I will be voting for Trump. And if he’s not running, I’m not voting. I’m not going to give the next American job cutter the notion that he governs with my consent.
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:47:01 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: Raycpa
LOL!
I used the word in scrabble years ago and got challenged.
Response was Ewwww!
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:47:07 AM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west))
To: EveningStar
“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is considered ‘bile’ by the extreme Left.”
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:47:27 AM PST
by
PATRIOT1876
(The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
To: EveningStar
our division -- and it is getting worse
Obama was advertised as the great uniter who would bring the factions together in infinite kumbaya-ness.
Instead, since he got in office, Obama has intentionally caused more division and disharmony than any other president in recent history.
As for Luntz, he found he could no longer use his focus groups to sway opinion regarding Trump. Recall his first focus group? It was filled with those who said they 'were going to support Trump, but after the first debate, now they are not'. Most of us saw that as Luntz's failed attempt at swaying the public away from Trump. It didn't work. It hasn't worked. It isn't working.
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:48:22 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: EveningStar
FOX News: Frank Luntz's Republican debate focus group poses for pictures
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:50:16 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: TomGuy
Trump stomped on Luntz’s face and he hasn’t recovered.
He does what FNC tells him to do.
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posted on
12/28/2015 10:50:33 AM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west))
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