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Face It: Trump's The True GOP Favorite Now
nydailynews.com ^ | December 20, 2015 | JONATHAN ALLEN

Posted on 12/20/2015 5:35:51 AM PST by Helicondelta

There's something the chattering classes along the Acela Corridor don't want to say about Donald Trump: He's the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination.

For the Republican Party's conservative - in more ways than one - establishment, it's as if admitting that will make it come true. So instead, they squabble over who the "real front-runner is, whether it's Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz. Perhaps, the parlor wisdom holds, a dark horse like Chris Christie can overtake the field at the New Hampshire turn.

For the first few months, the Trump deniers - loud on national television, insistent on Twitter and ever-present in the nation's leading print and digital outlets - could be called wishful thinkers. With the primaries just around the corner, as many otherwise smart political analysts keep waiting, aching, for conventional order to be restored, it's time to call them what they are: delusional.

Trump is leading national polls by more than 20 points in a field with more than a dozen candidates.

He's sitting on a double-digit lead in New Hampshire, holds a 20-point edge in South Carolina and runs 27 points ahead of his nearest competitor in Georgia. Though he's probably going to lose Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucus to Cruz, who's leading in the polls there, Trump could finish a strong second.

He's first or near it in Nevada, Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Missouri and Ohio. He's in the lead in nearly every state that has been polled. All those leads have held up after a dozen predicted collapses.

To anyone looking honestly at the hard numbers, Trump's lead in the Republican primary looks a lot like Hillary Clinton's in the Democratic primary. And no one is debating who will "really win" on the Democratic side.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016election; elections; hillary; immigration; republicans; trump; trumpwasright
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To: Awgie

I love your post # 11.

There is more wisdom, intelligence and value in electricians, plumbers, garbagemen and contractors than all the chirpers combined.


81 posted on 12/20/2015 7:49:39 AM PST by Gratia
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To: Leaning Right

The LSM may indeed try some dirty handed scandal trick with Trump but its a different season this go round. Many on both sides know the media lies and won’t buy the BS-—only the mindless drones will. Also Trump is a fighter and punches back hard. Notice how he always excoriates the media at every rally. He’s inoculating the listeners so when the attacks happen their radar is up. Trump is no dummy or a wuss and people want a strong leader who will fight. The large crowds prove it.


82 posted on 12/20/2015 7:54:35 AM PST by tflabo
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To: Oceander

Is that you, Yeb? Trump would destroy Hillary! Amazes me, really, that you favor a candidate who can’t even get close to the Donald, and you think they can beat Hillary. Hatred blinds a person!


83 posted on 12/20/2015 7:54:52 AM PST by theoldmarine (Saved by grace through Faith)
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To: Gratia
I see more nobility in the people who pick up our garbage and clean our bathrooms then in the “media class” who make their living by drawing attention to themselves, with their acting, singing, dancing, sports, reporting, talking and writing.

I would really love to see a redefinition of who is valued and honored in our society.

84 posted on 12/20/2015 8:00:21 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: theoldmarine

Yeah, bumper-sticker sound bites will always beat someone who can put together a coherent paragraph or two. Trump cannot debate his way out of a paper bag, a wet paper bag.


85 posted on 12/20/2015 8:05:14 AM PST by Oceander
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To: Awgie

Reminds me of a quote I once heard Dennis Prager share as, “the popular are rarely significant and the significant are rarely popular”.


86 posted on 12/20/2015 8:06:10 AM PST by tflabo
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To: Helicondelta

Don’t count Sanders out yet. Trump vs Sanders now that would be something to behold.


87 posted on 12/20/2015 8:08:47 AM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: tflabo
I love Dennis Prager. He is a treasure and I have learned so much from him.
88 posted on 12/20/2015 8:11:04 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Oceander

Trump has to point out that with all of Hillary’s political and debate experience that everything she touched turned out to be a disaster. Also that he’s no politician or DC insider but knows how to get things done with success.


89 posted on 12/20/2015 8:14:56 AM PST by tflabo
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To: Oceander

Debating Hillary Clinton is the surest way to letting her into the Whitehouse. Trump will mock her to death.


90 posted on 12/20/2015 8:16:09 AM PST 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: tflabo

Really? The Clinton Foundation seems to be doing just fine, and she’s just as far away from jail, or censure, for her private email server as she was before it was discovered. If you count those as “disasters” then you may need to review your definition of that word.


91 posted on 12/20/2015 8:17:05 AM PST by Oceander
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Cruz debate Bernie.”
Now THAT would be highly entertaining.


92 posted on 12/20/2015 8:20:40 AM PST by moehoward
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To: Oceander

If so-called Americans vote and elect her knowing all these scandals and corruptions then they deserve whatever disasters ensue upon them.
Its been said people go to hell because they choose it.
If they want HELLary then they deserve her and it too,


93 posted on 12/20/2015 8:24:52 AM PST by tflabo
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To: House Atreides

“Ted in an assigned role of “attack dog” against the carefully sheltered Hillary.”


Oh yeah, nothing sways the moderate voter more than smacking up grandma. Not that I believe he’ll get the chance, but Cruz is too smart to play “attack dog”.


94 posted on 12/20/2015 8:25:04 AM PST by moehoward
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To: tflabo

And the GOP will be complicit in convincing Americans of that by providing a foil like Trump to Clinton. Trump is the almost perfect guarantee of a Clinton victory. It’d be nice if the GOP tried to provide a nominee who would persuade people away from Clinton instead of toward her.


95 posted on 12/20/2015 8:29:20 AM PST by Oceander
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To: moehoward

Did anyone hear those DemRat leftists onstage last night even mention the Constitution just once? I didn’t-—
One of the founders quoted, ‘The Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for that of another’.. How far the Republic has fallen but there is a remnant and its us.


96 posted on 12/20/2015 8:34:50 AM PST by tflabo
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To: Oceander

So Trump getting many crossover voters is not something that would carve into Hellary’s invincibility?


97 posted on 12/20/2015 8:39:02 AM PST by tflabo
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To: tflabo

Because Trump won’t get many crossover voters. You won’t get what you’ve so thoroughly alienated.


98 posted on 12/20/2015 8:41:01 AM PST by Oceander
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To: tflabo

Didn’t watch debate. The way they are hiding these last few, it’s obvious it’s a complete farce. Her not taking it seriously enough to be at podium ? Really ?


99 posted on 12/20/2015 8:46:12 AM PST by moehoward
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To: Jane Long

That’s funny.


100 posted on 12/20/2015 8:59:13 AM PST by GOPJ (GOP Establishment plays the base for fools - now they beat us up and we hide black eyes What's next?)
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