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Trump is on track to win reelection
The Washington Post ^ | October 6, 2017 | Doug Sosnik

Posted on 10/07/2017 12:33:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

More than half of Americans don’t think Donald Trump is fit to serve as president, yet he has a clear path to winning reelection. If Trump isn’t removed from office and doesn’t lead the country into some form of global catastrophe, he could secure a second term simply by maintaining his current level of support with his political base.

We have entered a new era in American politics. The 2016 election exposed how economic, social and cultural issues have splintered the country and increasingly divided voters by age, race, education and geography. This isn’t going to change.

What have changed are the political fault lines that have driven the debate since the early 1980s. Until now, the ideological divides between the parties were largely differences around social issues, defense spending and trade, as well as tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Today, the central issue has become populism as voters have moved away from the two political parties and increasingly self-identified as independents....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; boogedyboogedy; polls; third100days; trump; trump2020
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The only kind of left that could trump Trump would be a literally born again left that makes a convincing gospel case, beating Donald down the very road he has embarked upon.

Now that made me literally laugh out loud!

21 posted on 10/07/2017 1:37:06 AM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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To: V K Lee; 2ndDivisionVet; All
If we were he, we’d be checking our statistics before making such a blatantly false statement. “More than half of Americans don’t think Donald Trump is fit to serve”

He may not be a polished politician, but that is why people voted for him.

I think that secretly, many people support him but are afraid to admit it.

My sister (in WI) won't even talk to me now because I told her I voted for President Trump.

I really do not understand how divided the US has become. Oh! We can replace "Bush's fault" with "Obama's fault" That has got to be the explanation! LOL!

22 posted on 10/07/2017 1:42:58 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ( I appear to have accidentally deleted my tagline. :()
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To: DIRTYSECRET
4% growth will seal it. Throw in the fence and another SCOTUS.

Trump's energy policy will ensure the 4% growth.

23 posted on 10/07/2017 1:45:28 AM PDT by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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To: glock rocks

If I were Trump, I’d go to the thirty states that he won in the Electoral College and just concentrate on them. Forget the west coast entirely, and skip NY. For the news media, they’ve lost public confidence. Maybe Twitter can cancel his account in some way...that’s about the only curve left that could affect the race.


24 posted on 10/07/2017 2:35:07 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More than half of Americans don’t think Donald Trump, not fake news bullsh## news


25 posted on 10/07/2017 3:23:49 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kamala Harris is the next Obama. She will be the chosen one in 2020.


26 posted on 10/07/2017 3:24:54 AM PDT by hattend
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The wall is already underway, illegals are being deported every day and he’s not about to do anything to the 2nd Amendment.

Gah...Wait..No...You'll set them off...Snowflakes...Too late!


27 posted on 10/07/2017 3:36:10 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This time by an even bigger landslide!


28 posted on 10/07/2017 3:42:05 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yes. The harder they try, the harder we ridicule.

Alinskiule.

Heh. It’s a bitch, eh?


29 posted on 10/07/2017 3:48:43 AM PDT by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To deport 30-60 million illegal aliens requires more than a few hundred each day.


30 posted on 10/07/2017 4:17:41 AM PDT by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well considering that the left is so full of evil.....

“LAS VEGAS SLAUGHTER! Who is responsible????? 1. Tim Kaine asked for blood on the streets. 2. Loretta Lynch wanted bloodshed and violence against Republicans. 3. Obama asked his supporters to rise up. 4. CNN announced who would take over the gov if all elected Republicans were KILLED during Trump's inauguration. 5. A New York play shows the killing of Trump. 6. Snoop Dog kills Trump in a video. 7. Kathy Griffin decapitates Trump in a photo shoot. 8. Madonna - "I've thought a lot about blowing up the WH" 9. Robert De Niro - "I'd like to punch him in the face" 10. Joss Whedon, Avengers director - "I want a Rhino to F* Paul Ryan to death" 11. David Simon, creator of The Wire - "Pick up a G*d* brick" if Trump fires Robert Mueller. 12. Mickey Rourke, the wrestler-actor - "He can suck my F* D*ck" and threatens to beat Trump with a baseball bat. 13. Lea DeLaria, the actress, threatens to "take out Republicans and Independents with a baseball bat" after Trump win. 14. YG, rapper, threatens Trump with 'F* Donald Trump' song. 15. Marilyn Manson kills Trump in the music video. 16. Everlast, rapper, warns Trump - "I will punch you in your F*ing face" 17. Larry Wilmore jokes about suffocating Trump with "pillow they used to kill Scalia" 18. Stephan Colbert's Late Show puts Stephen Miller's head on a spike. 19. Sarah Silverman suggests military could help 'overthrow' Trump. 20. Kathy Griffin promised to beat up Baron Trump (who is 11 years old.) She also posts a picture of a severed head of Trump "in the name of dark comedy." 21. Juan Thompson threatened to blow up a Jewish community center. 22. Jeremy Christian, the Portland Killer, and a Bernie voter killed two. 23. The Huffington Post asked for Trump's execution - on June 11th. 24. Hillary Clinton tells her followers to "RESIST!" 25. Fuller said in his article that impeachment is no longer enough and that Trump must face justice. WHEN did such vitriol become, "acceptable"?! And the so-called tolerant liberal group become so uncaring and evil...?” THEY INCITED THIS VIOLENCE AND SHOULD BE ARRESTED!!!

31 posted on 10/07/2017 4:33:42 AM PDT by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The left has nothing, except hope that Mueller dredges up more Russia “unanswered questions”.


32 posted on 10/07/2017 5:33:13 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Jagman

‘And if I were you, I would pat myself on the back for using the subjunctive! ;-)’

ah yes...the subjunctive mood; almost gone the way of the dodo, relating only to a few strong verbs of Anglo-Saxon word stock, or using the auxiliary ‘to be’ and its various iterations...think of the phrase ‘until death do us part’...


33 posted on 10/07/2017 5:34:41 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If Trump isn’t removed from office

Those who would act on this fantasy need to think hard and long, and think more than twice about the consequences of doing this.

34 posted on 10/07/2017 5:36:19 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: hattend

100% agreed. That one’s a no brainer. She’s the only Democrat who scares me.


35 posted on 10/07/2017 5:38:29 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: Hardastarboard; hattend

Harris is not natural born.

Neither parent was a citizen when she was born.

And we better make a big stink about it if she runs—she is the female Obama.


36 posted on 10/07/2017 5:40:25 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Reno89519

Yep. I’ve supported Trump thus far. If he signs a gun control law, it shall be me my very great pleasure to see him booted from office.


37 posted on 10/07/2017 5:50:07 AM PDT by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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To: JamesP81

So, one issue...... that’s all that matters?


38 posted on 10/07/2017 5:51:35 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: bert

I have a few make or break issues. Abortion and gun control are two of those.

To answer in your question, yes. He signs a gun control law, he’s done. I am definitely a 2A voter. I have a long memory, and I do not forgive.

A bump stock ban as is being suggested will lead directly to a ban on all semi auto. Anyone who does not see that is not paying attention.


39 posted on 10/07/2017 5:54:40 AM PDT by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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To: high info voter
That hurt to read

“LAS VEGAS SLAUGHTER! Who is responsible?????

WHEN did such vitriol become, "acceptable"?! And the so-called tolerant liberal group become so uncaring and evil...?” THEY INCITED THIS VIOLENCE AND SHOULD BE ARRESTED!!!
40 posted on 10/07/2017 5:58:47 AM PDT by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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