Posted on 08/24/2016 6:52:59 AM PDT by Hojczyk
He’s springboarding off of something WaPo reporter Robert Costa said a few weeks ago:
The most important voter in this movement, uh, when I travel around the country, is the previously disengaged voter. They’re almost a nonpartisan voter, but they’ve given up not just on the political process, but they’ve disengaged from civic society. They don’t really follow politics. If that’s a real coherent voting block, then Trump — regardless of the polls — will have a shot in November — and regardless of all the mistakes — because that’s a huge block. There’s so much of this country that rarely, if ever, votes, and if — for some reason — they come to the polls in droves, that changes everything.
Here’s Rush today, citing Salena Zito’s recent column about driving across Pennsylvania and seeing one Trump yard sign after another:
Call ’em the silent majority, the silent number or whatever. We’re gonna find in November just how many of them there are. We’re gonna find out in November how many of them show up and vote. We’re gonna find out a lot of things in November, ’cause I guarantee you these people are not being polled. They’re not being reached. And in an even greater sense the people responsible for polling and the editors and producers of major media networks. They’re not interested in these people…
So they are out there lurking, and every presidential year comes along and they stay home because it’s more of the same. They don’t have to a political party. The Tea Party, maybe, was a vessel for them. But Trump has come along and has ignited them. Trump has come along and reenergized them, and that’s who they are.
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...or refuses to be polled.
There’s no “what if” about it.
May not matter if the machines are programmed to flip the majority of their votes from R to D. This is a problem that needs to be seriously addressed. Trouble is, the people who need to address it have a vested interest in Hillary winning..
Trump has put out policies, campaigning like a champion, doing interviews everywhere.....Hillary has done Kimmel and cloaked in corruption. Why is she leading in all the polls? I don’t care for national polls, my concern are STATE polls...and they all have her winning. Something is fishy...election RIGGED...or America gone already.
Either way, silent or refusing to be polled, we are LEGION and we will roll over them like an avenging tsunami election day.
Blue Turtle wrote: “Trump has put out policies, campaigning like a champion, doing interviews everywhere.....Hillary has done Kimmel and cloaked in corruption. Why is she leading in all the polls”
Very simple answer.
Approximately 43% of the population will vote for any candidate nominated by the Democrats. Doesn’t matter who the candidate is.
Approximately 40% of the population will vote for any candidate nominated by the Republicans.
Trump hasn’t convinced a sufficient number of the remainder that he is better than Clinton.
What do you mean "What If"?
I hope there is one. Trump makes it possible.
But I was hoping for a silent majority in 2008 and 2012. I won’t feel easy until the votes are counted.
The latter, sadly.
Why? What do they need convincing on? I see a very clear choice here.... you’re either pro jobs, anti-terrorist, against illegal immigration, against obamacare, against school choice.....or you’re not.
Jeez...
If they are starting the “silent” majority stuff this early we are in trouble. This line of thinking is “end of the election” stuff.
I’ve been saying this for a long time. There a re a lot of people out there who won’t admit it to friends or family, or even a pollster on the phone, but will vote for Trump in private. That’s just one reason the polls mean almost nothing this time.
I think Rush is onto something here. A lot of people have stayed home for a long time, mainly because either they don’t have anyone they WANT to vote for, or refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils, which has been our only choice for at least the last 4 presidential elections. I stayed home and refused the lesser of two evils several times. I’ve known others who did too.
I think he may be right, a huge number of these folks may be already planning to help put Trump in office this time.
Dear Washington,
America is coming,
and they’re bringing Donald J Trump.
Since 1992 I’ve voted in 3 presidential elections; Perot twice (’92 & ‘96) and Buchanan in ‘00. I’m a registered “I” and this year myself and five family members are voting for Trump. He will be my only vote as the remaining down ballot contains various shades of globalists who are all intent on damaging the America I grew up in.
Believe me, we’re out there.
Remember, there’s an app for cellphones that polled some 100,000 people on who they would vote for. Trump won literally going away based on that poll—particularly scary for the Clinton campaign since it’s mostly Millenials and Generation Y that use cellphones.
I don’t like to bet on the unseen but there are several factors about this race that makes it more likely than in 2012. Obama managed in 2012 to keep just enough of his demographic advantage to win even while losing independents. Trump in many polls is getting nearly twice as many independents as Romney if you go back and compare exit polls. He’s also has an advantage equal to or exceeding Clinton’s advantage with women. Men turned out at a slightly lower rate than women in 2012. Trump has potential to increase the men’s vote share. I know first hand that Trump appeals to blue color workers in ways that Romney never could. Southwest Virginia which till recent history was solid Democrat Trump is actually winning while losing elsewhere in the state though Virginia polling hasn’t been very good and should be suspect. Here is the example of the Cucinelli race.
This is really not that surprising if you consider that anyone who admits they support Trump will immediately be labeled a racist.
There’s no “what if” about it.
You’re right
We need a larger than expected turnout for Trump. Hoping all the hurt feelings from the primary battle are put aside for the good of the country.
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