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.
Saying that Hitlary is “winning big” does NOT make it so. Previously asked, why does she NOT draw more than a few people to her events when Trump (supposedly behind in the polls) on the other hand draws thousands? Anything I read coming from the media is highly questionable. It’s an old Clinton tactic, keep throwing something against the wall and sooner or later some of it will stick. I’m not buying it at all.
Maybe because little Benji and his ilk do everything the can to help her?
First thing ben is he is winning and you know it but you and other rinos are always and I mean always criticizing him for anything while never talking about Clinton or obama. You must be getting money from the democrats as I have never heard so much caterwauling from you or the others ever.
I believe it is that Beltway money that controls the media. The media are deliberately liberal because this helps the Beltway money to get to those who have influence over the media.
In other words, the Media serves the interests of it's masters. It promulgates Liberal crap because these policies help to enrich the right people.
One reason among many why we can't get the government's budget under control. Two many people influential with the media are sucking up that pork.
“Unfortunately, he stepped all over it with news of changes in his campaign staffing”
Yeah and then he stopped for lunch, and even changed to a striped tie!
Give me a break.
When will we learn the media will use ANYTHING to cover for hrc.
Ben Shapiro, RINO big time
A republican candidate should be leading this crook Clinton by a wide margin, there should be no question.. Why are people choosing to forget the Obama nightmares and his unfavorable polling prior to Trump, which is another reason Trump should be pulling away. He isn’t and there is trouble. The campaign ads here in Ohio are devastating. I will vote Trump, Clinton wouldn’t even be a possibility, but I have to tell you, the ads against him, are in Trumps own words, they are effective and compelling.
Correct. He has inched back up since then and continues to do so.
What a bunch of Bovine Excrement.
The real reason is that most people are puppets of Lucifer, and the world is being set up for the tyranny of global government under the Antichrist. Jesus said in Matthew 7:13 that few are truly saved and find redemption in Jesus Christ. The selfishness, wickedness, and willful ignorance drives the majority. This world is not my home. The world is going to get what it deserves, perhaps soon - and that is God's wrath.
Hey, while you’re at it, why didn’t you conjure up a few other “serious criticisms” of your? candidate.
This election isn’t about Trump or Clinton. It is about Americans vs the Globalist Elites.
If there is anytime that America needs a revolution it is now. With the globalists and the left wing getting 2 possibly 3 seats on SCOTUS we can be damn well sure that our rights are going to be trampled on.
You are the perpetual wet blanket. All snark, all the time.
Sadly very soon IMHO.
Maranatha!
They don’t know that she’s win the election.
I for one refuse to answer political polls anymore.
It finally occurred to me that they can figure out who you are by the phone number they reach and all they have to do to find out how you are going vote is go back and trace it. They can claim all they want that the polls are anonymous, but I don’t trust them in the least.
Even so, come Lord Jesus!
Thailand???
(Just kidding, sort of. Hope you find what you’re looking for there.)
Depressing isn't it? So many citizens willing to jettison their freedom and just let the government take care of them. And actually believe the PIAPS cares about them. If she gets elected we are that much closer to the Second Civil War.
I don't see any other resolution either.
For the same reasons Al Capone always won big.
Worrisome, re: the ads—yes. What quotes are they trying to zap him on?
And I wonder when the Trump campaign will start firing back some of its own.
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