Posted on 01/09/2016 5:24:06 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
When people find out I am a political reporter, they usually have only one question for me: "Donald Trump can't really win this thing, can he?" My answer is always the same these days: Absolutely he can.
The reason is simple: Trump is the national front-runner, yes, but he is also ahead in a two key early states -- New Hampshire and South Carolina -- and a strong second in Iowa, the state that kicks the whole presidential process off on Feb. 1.
Could he totally collapse from that position? Sure. As we know from recent history, voters in Iowa and New Hampshire don't start paying all that close attention to the race until about 30 days or so out from the actual vote -- meaning that polling on what the race looks like tends to be an inexact science.
But the fact that Trump is ahead nationally and that he is running first or second in Iowa and New Hampshire is meaningful, argues Sam Wang over at the Princeton Election Consortium.
Wang's argument is that based on recent electoral history and where Trump stands in polling today, the real estate billionaire actually has a very good chance at being the Republican nominee. Look at where the past nominees in each party were at this time in national, Iowa and New Hampshire polling:
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
All of Trumps rallies are overflowing, nobody else comes even close to the amount of people who come for miles in inclement weather to see Trump.
Yep!
Just what we need a totalitarian.
Go Trump!!
Exactly
Obama will attempt to bring in millions of non-Trump voters before election day.
Tens of millions, if he can.
If Barack Hussein Obama can be elected President and a rapist like Bill Clinton can be elected President, it is obvious that almost anyone can be elected President.
Totalitarian,,,,
HECK YES!
TOTALLY AWSOME!
Just what we need a totalitarian.
**************
Well there are two other branches of gov’t that have a little say in all this.
It takes budgets to do some things, laws have to honored and Congress does have a
lot of input be it good or bad.
Think? He’s the overwhelming favorite. Several slow on the uptake in the media as dunderheads maybe not.
Meanwhile at the Pizza Ranch, Ted Cruz was telling the packed restaurant he’d like to spank Hillary....../s
Yeah that whole other branches of government thing has worked so well with the current dictator..lol
GO TRUMP!!!
How do you figure? He's a populist champion of the fight against liberal ideology based totalitarianism, which is at a crescendo in the news, and in our daily lives.
Oh give me a break that is sarcasm surely
Love ya
And Trump has been leading since July never losing pole position even once. And leading big.
“Just what we need a totalitarian”
Unfortunately that is probably true. We have tried to change things by installing a GOP congress only to find that it is owned and operated by the same people that run the Democrats. After what happened in Mississippi and last months spending bill makes this quit obvious.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.