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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

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To: usconservative

Hillary’s staffers are unpaid interns.


21 posted on 08/13/2015 2:28:15 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Interesting.
Know my nephews and their friends are actively supporting him in Michigan. Seems to have a big following of energetic youth there


22 posted on 08/13/2015 2:29:25 PM PDT by hoosiermama (psalm 150;3 Praise him with the sound of the TRUMPet!)
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To: RoosterRedux

He did initially support Obama. Trump has buildings in Chicago that needed approval from the Chi-coms.


23 posted on 08/13/2015 2:30:45 PM PDT by proust
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To: usconservative

RINOmney had 50 paid staff during his first run.
RINOmney had 5 paid staff the second time he ran.

I have no idea how large Trump’s 10 is and if it is in comparison to other candidates or historical.

Also, this is very early.
How many paid staff do the other candidates have today?


24 posted on 08/13/2015 2:32:13 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: RoosterRedux

25 posted on 08/13/2015 2:34:10 PM PDT by x
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
And how many paid staff are needed in proportion to voluntary staffers?

Everyone knows Trump is stingy. He's not gonna pay a dime over what is necessary. As my Dad used to say, he's a Scotsman (on his mother's side).

But he is going to pay what is needed to win--and not a penny more.

26 posted on 08/13/2015 2:45:28 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
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To: RoosterRedux

You’re not kidding.

Trump once cashed a 13 cent check. And that is why he wins.


27 posted on 08/13/2015 2:50:53 PM PDT by proust
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To: proust
Trump told everyone exactly how the game is played, but no one apparently listened. Who he supported or who he praised as a businessman is totally irrelevant to discerning what he might do if he won office. "I gave money to everybody. And three years later when I needed something, they were there for me."

This why the field has united in attempting to silence Trump. He blows their cover. He tells what Washington DC really is all about in the 21st century, and it isn't the myth of "representative government."

28 posted on 08/13/2015 2:52:30 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Matthews and)
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To: proust

Heheh. As my Dad taught me (he was Scottish), it’s not about the money, it’s about the principle.


29 posted on 08/13/2015 2:53:20 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I thought George Will and Victor Hanson and others all say the guy has no ground game, that he’s just winging it. So in other words, he’s damn serious about this, and it going to do what it takes to win.


30 posted on 08/13/2015 2:54:57 PM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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I don’t know about George Will—never liked the guy—but I think VDH will eventually come around.


31 posted on 08/13/2015 2:59:33 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Incredible!


32 posted on 08/13/2015 3:00:51 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: RoosterRedux

Yeah, I said something similar to this in another thread. And its bigger than just his brand. I don’t think the Establishment is going to just let him pick up his ball and go home. He’s literally in this for his life. I don’t think the establishment in both parties, nor the media elites, will ever let something like this happen again.


33 posted on 08/13/2015 3:04:32 PM PDT by ballearthout
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To: GeronL

Probably just wanted Obama to go after somebody else. I don’t remember Donald getting audited for political reasons. The two party system, at least in the last several decades is a good cop/bad cop scenario.


34 posted on 08/13/2015 3:07:18 PM PDT by ballearthout
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To: ballearthout

Good point.


35 posted on 08/13/2015 3:12:50 PM PDT by proust
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To: RoosterRedux

He’s playing 3-D chess while the other candidates are playing Old Maid.


Boom!!

Old Maid....lol :)


36 posted on 08/13/2015 3:12:59 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
the Trump people are everywhere with literature and T-shirts and signing people up.
There was a thread yesterday about Cruz in Tupelo. .

He was standing in the back of a pickup in front of a chicken diner. There was ONE PERSON with a poster and it was written in crayon.

37 posted on 08/13/2015 3:18:58 PM PDT by lewislynn (Meghan Kelley...#sand--Rosie, the Don was right-- Hillary, lipstick on a pig)
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To: RoosterRedux

"Now, you win one, I can get you another. Win again and then things maybe start getting serious around here."

38 posted on 08/13/2015 3:20:33 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt)
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To: proust
He did initially support Obama. Trump has buildings in Chicago that needed approval from the Chi-coms.
Ignorance is bliss. If what you say is true, Trump wasn't supporting Obama. By your own words, he was supporting himself.

BTW, Chi-com is Chinese Communist.

39 posted on 08/13/2015 3:27:01 PM PDT by lewislynn (Meghan Kelley...#sand--Rosie, the Don was right-- Hillary, lipstick on a pig)
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To: lewislynn

Yeah just my spin on Chicago Communists


40 posted on 08/13/2015 5:27:12 PM PDT by proust
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