rickyp wrote:The value of polling people on attitudes and learning from those polls.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/n ... ad-n406766
A good quarter of republicans seem to be in lock step with his attitudes.towards everything and everybody
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It's an interesting poll. I've certainly been confounded by his popularity. It all seems to be based on his hitting the right emotions, but not on policy, because his policy ideas are not particularly conservative, perhaps with the exception of immigration.
With all due respect, this is more jackassery. You take half the info and proclaim yourself correct.
Riddle me this: does this explain tens of thousands of Massachusetts voters changing their party affiliation? Does it explain the massive increase in primary turnout on the R side and the (mostly) lower totals on the D side?
What is happening is a lot of white working class are changing their party affiliation or voting in open primaries for Trump. He has them convinced that he (alone) can fix what is wrong with government because he knows business.
The value of unsupported conjecture...
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I think when it becomes clear Trump can't win, he'll exit. He won't waste his money on a purely quixotic venture. However, it will take some time for him to wake from his delusion
Still true. At any point if this is the case, he'll get out. Unfortunately, so far, no matter what he does or says people keep voting for him.
I think the signs for the genuine support within the Republican Party for Trumps' emotional but contradictory, racist, sexist, dishonest rhetoric were there long ago. The Tea Party was all about misplaced anger and irrational response...
You don't know anything about the Tea Party. I am Tea Party. It's not "misplaced anger." It was at Bush, the bailout, Obama, the maddening overspending and underperforming of government, the ever-increasing concentration of power in DC, etc. It was not about any of the other crap you've listed and it was not "irrational."
I know. You love to go to Social Security and Medicare to "prove" the irrationality of the Tea Party. Rubbish. I've said a million times and I believe most Tea Partyers agree: if reform of the system meant I had to work another year or two or that I received slightly less, I'd be fine with that if it actually
fixed the system. The problem with you socialists is that you always think taxation and growth of government solves problems. We don't.
You just had to be willing to accept that a large part of the republican base, and the most active primary voters, agreed with the incoherent message. And didn't really understand why it was incoherent. Or why it repels most of their fellow citizens.
What you fail to understand is that Trump is a threat to Hillary. He attracts the voters she needs. It's his celebrity and his aura, not his policies.
Many conservatives won't vote for Trump. However, he's not aiming at us. He's aiming at Hillary's heart: white working class. He's going to attack her in ways that will make me blush--and it will work.
Personally, I don't want it. I find it embarrassing. Furthermore, he's a Jacksonian Democrat. He's a raw populist. She is going to run on competence, but the electorate isn't buying that. Ask Jeb.
I can see a way to stop him. It all depends on the 15th. If he loses Ohio and Florida, then there may be a means to make this process into an ugly floor fight. The advantage Trump has is that his supporters are zombies.