[grey_whiskers]

If you applied the old "Who would you like to have a beer with?” test that has probably determined far more elections than most Americans want to admit, Trump would beat everyone in the field combined twice over.

I wouldn't want to have a beer with him. The man doesn't drink.

This makes those claims of rigorous opposition research sound kinda silly, doesn't it?

[Dr. Sivana]

This makes those claims of rigorous opposition research sound kinda silly, doesn't it?

Donald Trump has been in the public spehere for over 30 years. He has had opposition research from the top ranks: The New York Post, The National Enquirer, Kitty Kelley, all of the major construction unions. Obama might be able to come up with more if he had a mind to, but that's true about any of them.

There's enough on him that if he weren't known and accepted for all of it, he'd be long gone. Because he's a Republican, he's still vulnerable if someone comes up with a "dead girl or a live boy". (Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank have shown that that is not necessarily the end of a Dem career, at least not in Massachusetts.) Trump shows no evidence of that.