Posted on 08/17/2016 4:53:12 AM PDT by SJackson
The most corrupt candidate in the history of the presidency, Hillary Clinton, is cruising toward victory. If the election were held today, she’d win in excess of 360 electoral votes. She’s currently leading in Pennsylvania (+9.2 percent), Michigan (+6.6 percent), Ohio (+2.6 percent), Virginia (+8 percent), New Hampshire (+8.2 percent), Georgia (+0.3 percent), Florida (+3.6 percent), Iowa (+0.4 percent), Wisconsin (+9.4 percent), Colorado (+11 percent), North Carolina (+2 percent), Nevada (+2.3 percent). Trump’s barely ahead in Arizona (+0.3 percent) and Missouri (+5.3 percent).
How in the world is she winning?
In the last three months, the head of the FBI has said she was “extremely careless” with classified material and came whisker-close to indicting her. Every day, new headlines break about the cozy and likely illegal relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department. She’s unlikable, she’s nasty, and she’s boring.
How can she be blowing out anyone, even Donald Trump?
The answer lies in what economist George Gilder might call the “information theory” of politics. Gilder says that the economy runs on new information changing the equilibrium. In essence, there is a steady drone of old information in the economy – and that’s what creates an economic status quo. Both entrepreneurial successes and devastating depressions add new information to the economy, which is why you see movement in the markets.
But old information doesn’t change anything.
This is the problem with Hillary: she doesn’t add any new information to the system. We already knew Hillary was deeply corrupt from her time in the White House. From Whitewater to Chinagate, from Travelgate to leading up the coverup for Bill’s sexual harrassments, Hillary’s corruption has been top of mind for well over two decades.
And her threats to national security have been well known for years, too. In 1996, the Clinton campaign allegedly took Chinese donations in return for declassifying sensitive missile technology, which the Chinese then used for their weaponry. So it’s no surprise to find out that she’d willingly sell access to foreign nations in return for donations to the Clinton Foundation slush fund.
In other words, she’s been so dirty for so long that it’s almost impossible to add new information to the system. All she has to do is continue to be the same old kind of dirty we already knew she was, and she’ll waltz her way to the White House.
Trump promised to expose Hillary to criticism she’d never felt before, but he hasn’t done it. Instead, Trump has provided new information to the system every day. While we’ve known Trump for as long (longer!) than Hillary, we didn’t know him on a political level in any serious way. We knew him as an entertaining business magnate and personal branding specialist. But nobody had any real perspective on his view of disabled reporters and Mexican judges. While Hillary refuses to add any new information to the system, Trump’s adding new information every day. That’s why Hillary’s campaign continues to maintain stability while Trump’s seems to bump up and down, nearly at random.
This means that if Trump wants to win, he’ll have to somehow reverse that polarity. He’ll have to force Hillary off her game – he’ll have to give us new information, a new angle about her. We already knew Hillary was Crooked Hillary; labeling her that doesn’t change the background noise. And we didn’t know that Trump was as volatile as he’s proven to be.
Trump needs to stabilize, of course. And then he needs to punch at Hillary, expose information about her most people don’t know. That’s tougher than it looks. We now live in an era where politicians benefit from surviving years of corruption – it makes them seem stable by comparison with newbies who make lots of mistakes and commit lots of sins. That’s Hillary’s major advantage, even more than the media that licks her boots. And that’s the advantage Trump will have to overcome.
Dirty, rotten scoundrels in big media for one thing.
And tens of millions of brain-dead, soulless citizens who are bent on making themselves slaves.
Yeah, Cankles is winning so big that people need not bother going to her rallies and need not bother to go to the polls election day.
Trump delivered “new information” in his last two speeches
Yeah...and anyone really trusts what the MSM is putting out as polls? Might as well listen to the “truth” that comes from Tokyo Rose, Berlin Betty or Lord Haw Haw.
Missed the crime speech. How was it?
Trump fills arenas while Hillary can’t fill a high school gym yet the mdm is trying to tell us she has the election locked up.
I’m retiring to Thailand soon, likely Chiang Mai.
If Hillary wins I will be leaving sooner rather than later.
Unfortunately, he stepped all over it with news of changes in his campaign staffing.
If Hillary wins it will mean that democrats, especially Obama, have been successful in creating a permanent majority with their policies
of creating hate and resentment with Identity Politics and watering down the vote with massive immigration of democrat victim groups.
If so, it will take a major apocalyptic event to get anyone but a democrat elected president again.
Hillary Clinton has a lot of support among Republicans in D.C. The voters have nothing to do with this election. It's the Beltway money that plays a much bigger role here.
Hillary Clinton is the Goldman Sachs candidate in this election. This means Trump has a much more difficult hill to climb.
Hell, its pretty much that way now! 2012 proved that for me...
The most corrupt candidate in history isn’t winning big. She is having it stolen for her. She, on her own ability could not win a pile of shit. If the good people of this Nation allow this witch to occupy the White House without raising hell six feet, the end result is on them.
Assuming that she actually is then that's the $10,000 question. And the explanation for Trump's campaign shake-up.
Assuming that she actually is then that's the $10,000 question. And the explanation for Trump's campaign shake-up.
“...and tens of millions of brain-dead, soulless citizens who are bent on making themselves slaves....”
...and who consider themselves brilliant, intellectual, international geniuses who are citizens of the world and superior to any silly United States citizenship.
(scu*bags one and all.)
IMHO
I have not seen one Hillary yard sign in Madison, WI. This city is so liberal that it is scary to not see anything except Bernie signs.
“Unfortunately, he stepped all over it with news of changes in his campaign staffing.”
This is a fallacy. Rather than focus on the merits of his speech, the UniParty/MSM & those in their employ will create a false narrative around the additions to his campaign staff. They will also post crap like this on FR till they are zotted.
Vote Trump 2016
Was it all that new?
She’s not actually winning big. Maybe was for one bad week, right after the Rat convention, in early August.
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