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To: Jim Robinson
“It appears to me that he's confident he already has the nomination all but wrapped up, but he knows he needs to attract more votes from the independents and squishies to win the general, so he now wants to show them he's not a hard right-wing ogre.”

The liberals I've known (I've had to deal with them on shared interests) call it “nudging”. It's how they eventually get their way, little by little, piece by piece. Trump will be nudging himself to the left as he feels it becomes necessary. The question is how far will he go before he loses more of his (original) base than he gains with these transitions. I don't think this is going to be pretty. My new tag line, used once, may become obsolete before we know it.

99 posted on 01/26/2016 7:22:05 PM PST by IAMNO1 (Vote Cruz. In case of emergency, break glass and vote Trump.)
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To: IAMNO1

Yeah, I know. I’m not in agreement with it at all if it is what he’s doing, but looks like he’s playing this part by the old rules. Stay to the right of center in the primaries, drift the other way in the general. Looks screwy to me.


108 posted on 01/26/2016 7:29:38 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: IAMNO1

I think NUDGE is the title of the Cass Sunstein book. The citizens are having mass psychology practiced upon us and it appears to be working, unfortunately.


144 posted on 01/26/2016 8:46:58 PM PST by Anima Mundi (Envy is just passive, lazy greed.)
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