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To: GilGil
Just a cautionary note: I certainly agree...but I sense fatal "cop-out thinking" out there among Trump supporters. Not to disparage the good news...... I just don’t want us engaging in “cop-out” thinking...."oh, he’s really ahead, and so on."

I get chills reading about the Truman/Dewey race. Everybody said Dewey wins....and there’s the infamous published newspaper headline announcing Dewey won. Another story had 95,000 thousand attending a Dewey rally....but, in the end, did not vote for him.

I keep worrying and wondering......will all these people at his rallies, rah-rahing him, vote for Donald?

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The conniving power-obsessed Clintons are determined that nothing will prevent them from getting back the govt power they crave. .......electronic voting and electronic vote-counting is a big issue, because it is potentially much more efficient in distorting the reported vote totals.....

Individuals fraudulently voting in a precinct is only a small percentage of the massive voter fraud the corrupt Clintons are capable of. For instance, a precinct computer can be programmed to change every Repub vote to Dem....then erases the evidence.

Start worrying.

13 posted on 08/21/2016 7:39:20 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: Liz
I recently read about the 1948 race between Dewey and Truman but I think you have it the other way around. Donald Trump is this year's Truman.

All during the summer of 1948, Dewey's election was seen as "inevitable" and Truman, although the incumbent, was seen as an unpolished candidate that was unworthy of the presidency. Remember that Truman became president only because FDR died in office. The entire media establishment and nearly all the establishment elite felt that there was no way that America would actually elect such a crude and uneducated man (Truman never got a college degree).

In much the style of Donald Trump, Harry Truman began a tour of America in mostly small towns where he spoke to regular Americans. This was the famous "whistle-stop" tour. Wherever Truman's train stopped, thousands of Americans would turn out to hear him speak, to the befuddlement of the elite.

The crowds for Truman started getting so large that Dewey's people started getting worried. But by then it was too late. Truman basically broke all the rules of campaigning (up to that time) and took his campaign directly to the people. To the chagrin and surprise of the media establishment - Truman won.

As a postscript, the Truman campaign model was used in 1960 by JFK, who visited small towns all across America. Only JFK had money and his own plane - kind of like somebody we know!


35 posted on 08/21/2016 10:19:24 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (It is a wise man who rules by the polls but it is a fool who is ruled by them)
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To: Liz

Liz-I have never stopped worrying about voter fraud.
I am going door to door in my neighborhoods. Very few say they are voting for Clinton( maybe 15-20%). The rest are for Trump, or they say they are.
Will they go out and actually vote is the 1st question and the 2nd question is will their vote get turned?
Clinton’s team seems to be very confident. I think they are banking on this fraud to drag her sorry ass across the finish line.


42 posted on 08/21/2016 12:12:42 PM PDT by pugmama (Ports Moon.)
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