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President Trump?
The Toronto Globe and Mail ^ | April 13, 2011 | Andrew Steele

Posted on 04/14/2011 4:18:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

While Canadians are watching our national election unfold, the 2012 U.S. presidential race is taking a turn for the bizarre.

A few months ago, I said the field would essentially freeze at Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich because those candidates had too much profile to allow lesser dark horse candidates to thrive.

Primaries are tribal clashes. The four main tribes of the Republican Party (social conservatives, Tea Partiers, the wealthy, neo-conservatives) each have a horse in the race, and they aren’t going to leave that candidate for a less appealing figure with no natural constituency. There just aren’t very many paths for an unknown Senator or Governor to get the votes to win.

The thesis failed to account for the possibility of another high wattage public figure entering the race, which is what happened. Donald Trump is now tied for first among Republican primary voters, in the latest CNN poll.

Trump 19% / Huckabee 19% / Palin 12% / Gingrich 11% / Romney 11% / Paul 7% / Bachman 5% / Daniels 3% / Pawlenty 2%

Question: What does this poll mean? Well, it sure made Barack Obama’s month. The leading seven candidates for the Republican nomination are badly damaged.

A good test of a candidate’s electability is if you can summarize their negatives in a bumper sticker. Here is a very quick scan of the Republican field:

Trump: Bankrupted casinos? You’re fired

Huckabee: Raised taxes, and pardoned convict who killed four cops

Palin: She can see Russia from her house

Gingrinch: Left his wife while she was in the hospital for cancer, and government shutdown

Romney: RomneyCare is basically ObamaCare, and his flip-flops and Mormonism

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: obama; palin; romney; trump
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To: reasonisfaith

Yawn...


21 posted on 04/14/2011 8:48:01 PM PDT by RockinRight (I didn't see Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center - The Donald)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Say hello to President Trump.


22 posted on 04/14/2011 8:51:12 PM PDT by RockinRight (I didn't see Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center - The Donald)
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To: Mozilla

Trump was excellent on Hannity tonight. He’s on a roll.


23 posted on 04/14/2011 9:38:30 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: RockinRight

So you love Hillary Clinton, and government run universal healthcare.

This means you must really like Obama, and by the way it means Trump still likes Obama as well.


24 posted on 04/14/2011 10:09:07 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Sarah Palin is above taking the fake high road.)
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To: reasonisfaith

Not sure where you got any of that. I “yawned” because we have seen all this on 30 threads since March.


25 posted on 04/15/2011 3:55:49 AM PDT by RockinRight (I didn't see Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center - The Donald)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is one crazy sob. I have no idea if he’ll run for potus or just want the most attention he can muster.

Anyone who watched the Hannity softball interview last night and didn’t come away thinking Trump is a self promoting opportunist of the first order, is being dishonest with themselves.


26 posted on 04/15/2011 3:34:27 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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