Posted on 08/04/2016 12:22:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You may not have noticed the following news item, because the person who spoke did not accompany his remarks by striking a baby monkey with a ball-peen hammer. We have reached a point in this campaign where people don't pay attention unless you do something that sets civilization back.
Paul Manafort, who is Donald Trump's campaign manager, at least in theory, recently said on two national news programs that he considered Connecticut in play. Connecticut has not gone Republican for president since 1988. Presidential campaigns don't usually bother with us. So what's different?
Maybe nothing. As swing states slide off the table, as the electoral map tightens, Manafort may simply require more creative paths to victory in order to keep donors interested. Colorado and Virginia seem to be dancing out of Trump's grasp, so why not make up some cool stories about other states?
It's also probable that Manafort has seen an internal poll for the U.S. Senate campaign of Dan Carter...
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
I will guarantee you there will be NO economic events before Nov. 7. Central Banks around the world and above all, our own Federal Reserve, will assure that.
Nope.
Just curious. Has anyone else seen what appears to me to be a disconnect between rally numbers and polls? Hillary gets a hundred or so people to an event, Trump gets 10,000 plus routinely, yet polls show her up 10 points? It just doesn’t square. Are people lying to the pollsters?
Or are the pollsters lying to us? Or making up figures?
People want to know why Social Security did not get an increase this year. Services are being cut in my state, because they do not have the revenue because of jobs lost and many unemployed! Hillary is promising a tax hike on the middle class - well on those who are working. Take a temp of your state budgets, and services!
Heck, I may retire early and put my hand out too! Obama is bankrupting the US! Why should I pay for illegal aliens & phoney Syrian refugees?
Nobody, including Trump, has drawn larger or more enthusiastic crowds than populist William Jennings Bryan, who lost all three times he was the nominee for president.
This post mentioning Colin McEnroe’s name brings back BAD memories of his insufferable radio gigs (local NPR & WTIC) and columnist days at Connecticut’s, Hartford Courant.
He’s the ultimate left wing democrat shill in a puny decaying bankrupt state that’s been utterly Ruined by Democrat rule run amuck.
*CT has had flat population growth for over twenty years and suffers from constant budget problems and over taxation.
Businesses and it’s citizens have been beating down the doors getting out of that state.
His deliberate pretentious and contentious style aggregates the H3ll out of anyone who understands that you cannot tax and regulate your way to prosperity.
Colin McEnroe is a Complete New England liberal idiot.
Connecticut’s Population Drops Again - Hartford Courant
www.courant.com/data-desk/hc-connecticuts-population-... Proxy Highlight
Feb 4, 2016 ... The U.S. Census Bureau estimates Connecticut’s population on July 1, 2015, was 3,590,886, down 3,876 or about 0.11 percent from July 2014.
How Did Rich Connecticut Morph Into One Of America’s Worst - Forbes
www.forbes.com/sites/jimpowell/2013/08/01/how-did-ric... Proxy Highlight
Aug 1, 2013 ... This compares with the current population of about 3.5 million. ... Connecticut ranks #50 – the worst — in annual economic growth. ... “Connecticut imposed a temporary 20 percent surtax on top of its flat 7.5 percent corporate ...
Snarky columnist creep:
I’m not saying this will happen. But if I ran the Republican Party, I would be thinking about ways to make Trump disappear so I could replace him with a more viable candidate, such as a talking couch from a furniture store commercial.
There aren’t many visible poll numbers. Only two state polls have been conducted here all year. They both show Clinton winning. Since the polls were taken, Trump’s run has resembled not so much a campaign as what poet Michael Ondaatje calls an “elimination dance,” in which couples must sit down when they are described by a dance caller. “Men who have never touched a whippet” or “Those who have accidentally stapled themselves.”
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Why even consider the notion that Trump could win here?
Because Connecticut has something that makes Trump attractive to voters. A really terrible economy.
There are other, sunny places where jobs are plentiful and the economy is growing fast, outpacing the nation. One of those places is called Massachusetts. I could get in my car and be there in 25 minutes.
Here in Connecticut, we are really excited that our economy is outpacing Venezuela’s. We are like the “America’s Got Talent” contestant who thinks it was a good day because he didn’t get shot in the neck with a flaming arrow.
That could help Trump. Trump is not going to do well in places where people are basically happy with their lives, but this is not one of those places, even compared to other places nearby.
But the economy is great, I heard it on the MSM “news” today.
Rally attendance does not necessarily translate into votes, ie Sarah Palin in 2008.
Like some other posters on this thread, I left Connecticut after I married and knew where the state was going. It was a great decision, ratified every time I return for a visit.
There are a LOT of people in Connecticut who have given up on politics. They will be out in numbers. I don’t see Hillary Clinton motivating the perphery of the minority base in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford. Oh, the regulars will come out. They’ll see Kerry numbers, though. Not Obama numbers. Connecticut is in play.
Seems like those are all ingredients that get people on the Trump Train.
Rally attendance does not necessarily translate into votes, ie Sarah Palin in 2008.
I suppose, but she was down ticket from McCain, who had lost the fighter pilot mentality long ago (if he ever had it to begin with). It just seems to be a disconnect.... I’m still thinking many folks are lying to the pollsters, much like Brexit.
McCain was a very bad candidate to run. A part of my generation wouldn’t have voted for him no matter who his running mate was.
Schadenfreude Glee when visiting CT and observing it’s Ever increasing permanent store front vacancy decay and 11 mile long $700+ Million dollar bus ways to nowhere.
‘Specially like to hear filthy city & state employee$ who retired high-on-the-hog after 20 years complain about their high income, property and sales taxes.
CT needs Somali and Syrian mosque monkey refugees to immigrate enmasse to the state and backfill it’s fleeing population who no longer will tolerate rough tax-sodomy.
Weak dying CT needs Sharia cultural enrichment.
RE: “Like some other posters on this thread, I left Connecticut after I married and knew where the state was going. It was a great decision, ratified every time I return for a visit.
There are a LOT of people in Connecticut who have given up on politics. They will be out in numbers. I don’t see Hillary Clinton motivating the perphery of the minority base in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford. Oh, the regulars will come out. They’ll see Kerry numbers, though. Not Obama numbers. Connecticut is in play.”
I’ve said for a while that I think CT could be in play. Too many years of liberal governors and losing General Electric Headquarters to punishingly high taxes was the last straw that woke up the people.
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