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To: Monty22002
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Losing Iowa Could Be Trump's Kryptonite

"Donald Trump is all about winning. "If we win Iowa, we run the table," he told a Des Moines rally on Friday. "It will be over quickly; we win virtually every state in the union." But how will he handle defeat if the Superman of the Polls suddenly starts losing?

Now there are three respected polls (Monmouth, Des Moines Register, and Fox) that show Trump losing to a surging Ted Cruz in Iowa. Trump could certainly surge back in the next 50 days, but right now, Cruz is on track to win. He is relentlessly using social media data to build what he calls "very much the Obama model - a data-driven, grassroots-driven campaign." And, he says, "it is a reason our campaign is steadily gathering strength." Trump is relying on rallies and the endless free TV coverage the media provide him......."

32 posted on 12/14/2015 1:07:47 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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"......Among people who have done business with Trump are many who feel they have been abused by him. Tama Starr, president of the sign-design company Artkraft Strauss (which lowered the Times Square silver ball that marked New Year's Eve for decades), has written about what she calls "the ugly art of Trump's deals." She and others have told me that it's common for Trump to pay 80 percent of a project, withhold the remainder of what is owed by claiming dissatisfaction with the work, and then force creditors to either give up on payment or engage in expensive litigation that might cost more than the money owed.

Donald Trump's big talk, braggadocio, and boldness have carried him far. But "gravity" - the wearing off of his freshness, the cumulative weight of his excesses, and voters taking a closer look at him before they actually cast a ballot - might well bring Trump down to earth, as Cruz recently suggested in a speech to a group of donors. Even Superman became weak and vulnerable when exposed to kryptonite, and in Trump's case, the equivalent could be exposure to a political environment in which his 91 percent name ID is "trumped" by voters' decision to finally compare him with other lesser-known candidates." Source

38 posted on 12/14/2015 1:13:14 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
But how will he handle defeat if the Superman of the Polls suddenly starts losing?

I bet he starts hollering and screaming like a 1 year old that wet his diapers and needs them changed

I bet that is exactly the way he sounds in a board meeting when things are not going his way

112 posted on 12/14/2015 3:05:28 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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