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.
“Was it all that new?”
not to us
Amen brother, speak it
Hillary is up so big ya’ll can continue to stay home, folks
Ben may have convinced himself and Michelle fields that Trump adds nothing but last night in Wisconsin a few miles from the riots Trump gave a speech that moved 3,500 attendees and almost 40,000 people who watched online
Where is Hilary going to be this week?
Trump will be speaking to another 10,000 people, or more who are coming out and standing in line for him
Ahh, but that is the key everyone seems to be missing. The election isn't held today, it's still twelve weeks away (an eternity in politics), the fact of the matter is that nobody but us political junkies are even paying attention yet. Most voters don't start paying attention and making up their minds until the debates. All the polls are reflecting at this point is what people think of the race from what they get in bits and pieces from the news (mostly negative against Trump), once they start actually paying attention the polls will quickly change.
Or to anyone else who has been following what he's been saying.
That place looks incredible!
Ben Shapiro needs to be ignored. He is worthless, and more importantly he is wrong. Why is his worthless ignorance being displayed? We get it already. There is no need to keep reinforcing what is already common knowledge!!!
The hag has never been in the lead, much less winning big.
Mitt Romney's "47%" rule.
You've got 47% of voters (maybe even higher now) who would knowingly cast their vote for a pedophile, kitten stomping, Satanist as long as he or she promised more government freebies.
Obviously any person with a moral IQ above 0 would not consider voting for the criminal Hillary. Having said that, apparently 50%+ of this country might vote for her. My question is thus: For those of us who get up before noon and shave ourselves what steps should we take to retain our sanity in light of 8 years of corruption, terrorism, LGBTQQQAACMEDITTOETC activism?
If Trump ran the kinds of ads against Hillary that Hillary is running against him, he’d be a shoe-in.
If she were alive she'd never do such an anti-American thing.
When large segments of your own party do not support you, it’s hard to win independents or anyone else. The Ratpublcans are finding anything to blame but themselves for handing Hillary the presidency.
A western style furnished 1 bdrm condo goes for about $250 a month depending on location.
If Trump doesn’t beat that hag by at least 3 points, voter fraud may ensure her win. Yes, IMHO voter fraud is that big.
Ben Shapiro is a nevertrumper and should be ignored. Also, there is no way in hell that Clinton is ahead in Georgia. Utter BS!!
Because of the attacks by the media on Trump. And let’s not forget the attacks from the elites, which included, IIRC, none other than Ben Shapiro.
Yes, he surely must not know what he is doing, and should listen more to bloggers.
-PJ
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