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Why is Trump Winning? Because He's Not Running, He's Playing a Reality TV Competition
YouTube ^ | Matthew Patrick

Posted on 02/25/2016 7:19:47 AM PST by LouD

WATCH THE VIDEO - No mater where you stand on Trump, it is a great analysis of how he's become the front runner.

When you think of the 2016 Presidential campaign, one name comes to mind - TRUMP. Every day, news stories come out about his inflammatory comments, his stubborn, unapologetic debate strategy...and that's EXACTLY the way he wants it. Trump is no traditional politician; his tactics come from somewhere else, and that place is REALITY TV. Trump's long history in reality television has given him the perfect strategic edge in the political arena, and so far he's winning the game of political Survivor that is the 2016 presidential race.

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Political pundits across the country have tried in vain to explain Donald Trump's phenomenally successful, largely unprecedented presidential campaign, but none has thus far been able to do so.

That's because Donald Trump isn't running a presidential campaign. He's playing a reality TV competition.

And it's taken someone who isn't a political pundit, but rather a TV and movie analyst on YouTube, to figure it out.

Matthew Patrick of The Film Theorists absolutely nails why Trump has captured the attention of so many people who otherwise don't even follow politics. It's because those people don't want to follow politics, but they don want to follow the drama of reality TV:

1 posted on 02/25/2016 7:19:47 AM PST by LouD
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To: LouD

I think Cruz will be votes off the island next week


2 posted on 02/25/2016 7:23:35 AM PST by Sybeck1
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To: LouD

Trump is winning because the people of this country who have been clamoring for a candidate who would stop the illegal alien inundation finally have one.


3 posted on 02/25/2016 7:23:57 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: LouD

I thinks so, too. Further, I suspect his prize is already agreed upon with the krintons.


4 posted on 02/25/2016 7:24:03 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth (May God save the Republic. Go Ted!)
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To: LouD
This is a forecast that will give you pause because of the number of times it's been CORRECT since 1912.
 
The ONLY time this forecast, has been incorrect when applied, was ONCE, which was in 1960.

This is a PROFOUND PREDICTION

Political science professor forecasts Trump as general election winner
The Statesman  | February 23, 2016 | Christopher Cameron

A professor of political science at Stony Brook University has forecasted that Donald Trump has a minimum 97 percent chance of winning the general election as the Republican nominee.

Professor Helmut Norpoth's forecast presentation took place Monday evening in the SUNY Global Center in Manhattan, which was organized by the Stony Brook Alumni Association.

Norpoth created a statistical model of presidential elections that uses a candidate's performance in their party's primary and patterns in the electoral cycle as predictors of the presidential vote in the general election.

Donald Trump has a 97 percent chance of defeating Hillary Clinton and a 99 percent chance of defeating Bernie Sanders in the general election, according to Norpoth's formula.

"The bottom line is that the primary model, using also the cyclical movement, makes it almost certain that Donald Trump will be the next president," Norpoth said, "if he's a nominee of the [Republican] party."

Norpoth's primary model works for every presidential election since 1912, with the notable exception of the 1960 election. These results give the model an accuracy of 96.1 percent.

Complete story source:

https://www.sbstatesman.com/2016/02/23/political-science-professor-forecasts-trump-as-general-election-winner/


5 posted on 02/25/2016 7:24:47 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: LouD

He’s successful because the rats and establishment really suck.


6 posted on 02/25/2016 7:26:22 AM PST by MichiganCheese (The darker the culture, the brighter your light can shine.)
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To: Sybeck1

I think Cruz will be voted off the island next week


Yes!


7 posted on 02/25/2016 7:27:50 AM PST by samtheman (Vote Trump)
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To: LouD

Have you seen how hard he is working? His lean mean campaign is a good sign. He is smart and intelligent man with mission and vision.


8 posted on 02/25/2016 7:30:43 AM PST by jennychase
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To: WorkingClassFilth
I suspect his prize is already agreed upon with the krintons.

Hope you were wearing your tin foil hat when you typed that.


9 posted on 02/25/2016 7:30:58 AM PST by The Iceman Cometh (The Democrats Must Lose In November)
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To: LouD

So Trump is an innovator in modern social media politics.


10 posted on 02/25/2016 7:31:43 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: LouD

Nope. Just another infantile screed from someone desperately flailing around for a rationalization to explain why they are losing.

These sort of attacks are meaningless noise to a voters who’s son is overseas on his third deployment, his grand kids go to a gang infested incompetent Public School, who sees his urban area neighborhood deserving into BLM/drug gang thuggary, has been underemployed since 2008 and is scared to death his employer is going to move his new job to Mexico any day now.

So scream on children while the Adults keep working to save the country for you.


11 posted on 02/25/2016 7:32:25 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: samtheman
I think Cruz will be voted off the island next week

Kasich, Carson and Rubio should crew the boat that takes him.

12 posted on 02/25/2016 7:32:44 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: LouD

Well then, many think Cruz realized his strategy of winning on the strength of hardcore conservates could never work because there aren’t enough of them, but because he knew that win or lose, a Presidential run would elevate his personal profile and enable him to be considered for a Supreme Court seat or as a high-paid partner in an elite law firm.

So, theories can be found everywhere, can’t they?


13 posted on 02/25/2016 7:34:06 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: LouD

I have never witnessed thousands, 10,000 plus, waiting in line sometimes in inclement weather to see and hear a political figure like Trump. Never. No explanation needed.

Change is coming.

Trumpus Maximus Americannus!!!


14 posted on 02/25/2016 7:35:15 AM PST by Lonely Are The Brave
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To: MNJohnnie

Trump will fix none of those things. Keep believing in your little cult of personality.


15 posted on 02/25/2016 7:38:45 AM PST by LouD
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To: LouD

If he’s not running, yet he has lapped the rest of the field, what does that say about the other candidates?


16 posted on 02/25/2016 7:40:20 AM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Thanks, but I already have one.


17 posted on 02/25/2016 7:40:42 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth (May God save the Republic. Go Ted!)
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To: LouD

“Trump will fix none of those things.”

How do you know?

Would Cruz be able to do it?

For supposedly being “real conservatives”, and likely somehow thinking you have a direct line into the true soul of America, you seem to only have faith in existing elected career politicians to fix the problems in this nation.


18 posted on 02/25/2016 7:45:36 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Trump is winning because the people of this country who have been clamoring for a candidate who would stop the illegal alien inundation finally have one.

We might do well to remember Obama's famous admonition upon winning the presidency:

"There's a difference between campaign rhetoric and governing."

19 posted on 02/25/2016 7:46:47 AM PST by oldbrowser (The republican party is the voters, not the politicians.)
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To: LouD
>>He's playing a reality TV competition.

Uhuh.  And evidently so are Generation XBox Trumpanzees who PENN manufactured "confrontation" into "reality"... (and then retract it).


Letter from the President | Retracting an erroneous post


By COLIN HENDERSON Ã£Æ’» 02/23/16 11:41pm

...round 2 a.m. on Sunday, we discovered from another Cruz staffer that the book in question in the video was the Bible, and we updated the post accordingly. But this significantly changed the meaning of Rubio's words as originally transcribed, as it now purported to show Rubio pointing to the Bible and saying "not a lot of answers in there." Later, the accuracy of that transcription was brought into question due to the unclear audio; upon returning to Philadelphia Sunday evening, we updated the post to reflect uncertainty over what was said...

But Cruz Communications Director Rick Tyler had shared the original post on Twitter and Facebook earlier Sunday.

http://www.thedp.com/article/2016/02/letter-from-the-president-marco-rubio-video

20 posted on 02/25/2016 7:52:56 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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