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Five reasons Brexit could signal Trump winning the White House
BBC ^ | June 20,2016 | Katy Kay

Posted on 06/24/2016 5:12:47 AM PDT by Hojczyk

A victory for Brexit next week by no means guarantees a Trump victory in the autumn. However, if the forces of disgruntlement, nationalism, populism and anti-globalisation are strong enough to force a radical move in the UK, they may be strong enough to force a radical election in America too.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2016election; brexit; brixit; election2016; europeanunion; nato; newyork; trump; unitedkingdom
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To: CaptainK
“Juvenile” is correct. Her first sentence, “Brexit doesn't guarantee that Donald Trump will win.” Amazing profound deep insight.

I saw Trump in Scotland and got confused, I thought Trump had won the Presidency of jolly old London, or something. But I'm just one of the uninformed little people.

Thank you KK for helping me sort things out.

41 posted on 06/24/2016 6:54:17 AM PDT by Awgie (Progressives should be called RE-GRESSIVES!)
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To: GotMojo

Excellent, Presidential, remarks by Trump today. Ironically from Scotland. Probably won’t help the business at his golf course there. But a word of caution to those quick to draw parallels. Certainly Trump and his supporters are pleased by ‘leave’ winning and have much in common with those who so voted yesterday. But yesterday the Brits were voting directly on the issue of leave/remain and not for specific candidates. A year ago they were voting for specific candidates and those candidates and parties most strongly tied to ‘leave’ did NOT do well. Voter turnout was quite a bit lower than yesterday. Farage quit as UKIP leader in response to their poor showing. Those wanting out were not united and didn’t have their acts together. Cameron won big by simply promising to hold this referendum, not to support Brexit. A better US parallel to the Brexit vote would be what the mood here would be a year after a HRC win, when her policies have melded the Trump and anti-Trump&Hillary forces together. Alas our system would make it much harder to replace her then. I’m not saying this is necessarily poor for Trump. Watch today and you will certainly see many on Trump’s side celebrating Brexit. You won’t see anyone on Hillary/Bernie/Obama’s side celebrating. But you will also see many anti-Trump, nominal Republicans and independents celebrating. Trump should use this to try to get as many of them onto his side as he can. If too many sit out last year’s Brit election would be the model we’ll repeat in the fall. Get enough of them on board and our Liberals will be fleeing Trump to a newly independent Scotland and making a haggis of it.


42 posted on 06/24/2016 7:01:29 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Changed)
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To: Liberty Valance

Great!


43 posted on 06/24/2016 7:06:16 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Robert DeLong

separated at birth


44 posted on 06/24/2016 7:12:12 AM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverShrillary)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Polling was much easier when almost every one had a land-line phone. Pollster's would buy master phone books, which were different then regular phone books. There was a lot of free demographic information in those master phone books, which made the polling much more accurate. With cell phones, polling has become so much more difficult, because it is harder and more expensive to get a good random sample that mimics the population as a whole. Nowadays most polls are garbage, and nothing but propaganda.
45 posted on 06/24/2016 9:40:20 AM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: Hojczyk

I think Trump popped the cork on globalism’s political correctness for the Brits as he has done in America.


46 posted on 06/24/2016 12:48:16 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: DaveA37

Exactly. Everything before November is the semi-finals.

BTW, is that A37, as in a grown up Tweety Bird


47 posted on 06/24/2016 1:06:58 PM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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