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Donald Trump is taking a page from Barack Obama's brilliant 2008 campaign playbook
theweek.com ^
Posted on 08/13/2015 2:02:33 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
If you are inclined to believe that Donald Trump's campaign for president is some meta-reality television show, think again: The Donald is rolling out an impressive ground game in Iowa, whose caucuses in February will be the first presidential primary contest in the nation, reports The Washington Post. As a member of Rick Perry's Iowa team tells the Post, "I see [Trump's campaign] as a major threat to all the other campaigns because of the aggressiveness of their ground game."
The Post notes that Trump is building a large field organization and that his Iowa campaign director, Chuck Laudner, helped lead Rick Santorum to victory there in 2012.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; newyork; trump
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To: RoosterRedux
Heh ... we forgot about the styrofoam columns ... didn’t we ....
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:03:37 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: RoosterRedux
Trumps gonna win this thing because Trump has an insatiable desire/need/hunger to win. Now that he's in, his brand--the brand that he has spent his life building--cannot withstand a loss of this election. Put simply, he's fighting for his life.
He's playing 3-D chess while the other candidates are playing Old Maid.
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:05:54 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:06:01 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
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To: onyx; hoosiermama; Jane Long; RitaOK
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:07:34 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
To: RoosterRedux
He’s just in it be a spoiler for Hillary... /s
Now he’s showing signs he is really serious, and we need to be afraid of that. It’s all about him, and it just isn’t fair!
What a riot...
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:09:49 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(If the fetus at one minute old is not alive, what is it?)
To: knarf
They're in the warehouse.
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:10:08 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
To: RoosterRedux
He’s convinced McCain to run against him?
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:10:28 PM PDT
by
Paine in the Neck
(Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
To: RoosterRedux
Yea, Trump. That was one well oiled, snake oiled, but well oiled and it ran the hell over Ma Clintoon and Jumpin Johnny McCain.
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:12:42 PM PDT
by
Steamburg
(Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
To: RoosterRedux
Trump has pretty much plagiarized that playbook already for all it is worth.
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:13:09 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:16:46 PM PDT
by
woofie
To: RoosterRedux
Trumps gonna win this thing because Trump has an insatiable desire/need/hunger to win. Now that he's in, his brand--the brand that he has spent his life building--cannot withstand a loss of this election. Put simply, he's fighting for his life.
He's playing 3-D chess while the other candidates are playing Old Maid.
©
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:17:15 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: RoosterRedux
DATELINE: IOWA
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“The groundwork laid by Trump’s sizeable Iowa staff, with 10 paid operatives and growing, is the clearest sign yet that the unconventional candidate is looking beyond his summer media surge and attempting to win February’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
“This is becoming a cause of concern for rival campaigns.
“I see them as a major threat to all the other campaigns because of the aggressiveness of their ground game,” said Sam Clovis, a prominent Iowa conservative who leads former Texas governor Rick Perry’s campaign.
“You cannot swing a dead cat in Iowa and not hit a Trump person,” Clovis continued. “It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Every event we go to — the Boone County Eisenhower Social, the Black Hawk County Lincoln Dinner, the Boots and Barbecue down in Denison — the Trump people are everywhere with literature and T-shirts and signing people up.
“The Trump bus will pull into an empty parking lot and just be there on the main drag, like the little town of Le Mars, ‘the ice cream capital of the world.’People will pull over, go sign up. They’ll get 50 people in an hour and go to another town. That happens all over the state.”
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Seen in an article about the TRUMP Bus in Iowa
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:17:52 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
To: aMorePerfectUnion
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:20:20 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
To: RoosterRedux
He did support Obama in 2008 I think
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:21:15 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Cruz is for real, 100%)
To: GeronL
No he didn’t. He supported that idiot McCain.
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:21:48 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
To: GeronL
Cruz wouldn’t approve of you lying to help him win.
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:22:42 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
To: RoosterRedux
Weird, a year later Trump was praising Obama for saving the economy
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:24:00 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Cruz is for real, 100%)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
The groundwork laid by Trump’s sizeable Iowa staff, with 10 paid operatives and growing, is the clearest sign yet that the unconventional candidate is looking beyond his summer media surge and attempting to win February’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. Ten paid staffers does not a ground game make. "Sizeable?" No. Hardly.
Who wrote this crap?
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:24:40 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: GeronL
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posted on
08/13/2015 2:27:13 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
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