There is something to what you say, and I believe it is one of the main reasons this race is competitive. The media, including even the local newspapers in my (relatively conservative) area, are all totally in the tank for the Establishment / Clinton. So, obviously, other sources are helping get information out.
However, I find that even many Trump supporters have not yet: read his position papers or speeches (the recent speeches are really good), looked at the Trump Foundation tax returns (or even summaries) vs. the Clinton Foundation’s, actually read the Dems’ corruption soaked e-mails, and so on.
Part of this is simply a lack of time, on the part of the average voter, to dig in to this stuff. Many are scrambling with 2 or more jobs, just to keep their heads above water. Part of it is poor presentation and promotion by most Pub candidates and organizations, whose communication to voters is generally as enticing as a bag of gravel. (When was the last time you saw a Pub political ad that was half as creative or “catchy”, for lack of a better word, as an average Geico commercial?) Trump’s own campaign website is competent, but, well, dull. And why does not every pro-Trump / pro-Pub website not have direct links on their home page or YouTube vids to the most damning of the Wikileaks (etc.) material? This freaking stuff is not THAT hard for any significant organization to do.
Indeed, many of the best efforts turn out to be by individuals, but then on Twitter at least, they may run into actual censorship. I here give you / FReepers a shout out to FReeper nerdgirl, who has given everyone not only a great little app for researching the top Wikileaks e-mails, but also insight into Twitter’s attempts to snuff out her free speech. (I will grant you Twitter has the “right” to regulate their content, but the fact that they would censor someone in this manner is some of the best evidence yet that the Donald is indeed on target about the system being rigged. In this case the censorship is likely much in line with the so-called “Limbaugh Theorem” - which applies to much of what is going on.)
Anyway, the shout-out: For anyone who has not yet done so, check out this thread, and the (pretty cool and useful) app. Send it to everyone you can! I wish Trump / the campaign would latch onto this —
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3485388/posts
and the app itself:
https://keyfindings.firebaseapp.com/
Hey that is awesome. Honestly it’s very tough to get the word out about that app - Twitter still has me muted, I guess at this point I should see it as a compliment that somebody thinks my anti Hillary campaign is such a success hat they need to shut me down, lol. But not being able to contact people there is very limiting, as you can’t get emails through to people who have the big soapboxes these days.
So THANK YOU! I read through a lot of the data last night and some of it was over the top - some vulgarity and I got the impression the spreadsheet author might be an oppo researcher or even work at a tabloid. So I deleted some stuff I didn’t think was pertinent and I’ll be doing a lot more of that today. There is no reason to use hyperbole or overstate the severity of the emails - and I would rather err on the side of caution. Like saying the “bribed” the Ambassador to Finland just because he was a big money raiser for her. While the Clintons were practically renting the Lincoln bedroom back in the day - I think giving ambassadorships to folks who have been good to you is an age old practice (correct me if I’m wrong) - and while they do WAY more of that than any normal person would - I think the word “Bribery” is inappropriate there.
So I have a lot of work to do today.
Thanks again for the support, it really is a lot of work but at least I feel like I’m doing something for the effort to keep these people away from running our country (yet again).
God Bless!