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1 posted on 02/02/2016 7:51:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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... Unless the nominee is the GOPe’s guy Marco Rubio.

Then watch the ‘enthusiasm gap’ disappear.

If there’s one thing the GOPe knows how to do its how to p*ss away a lead.


2 posted on 02/02/2016 7:53:43 AM PST by skeeter
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Easy folks... there was a huge intensity gap early in 2012. I’m hugely optimistic, but we gotta go out and win this. Don’t forget: fear motivates as well as excitement.


4 posted on 02/02/2016 7:58:00 AM PST by dangus
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That will go away if Rubio is the nominee.


5 posted on 02/02/2016 7:59:13 AM PST by dfwgator
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This story was written in January 1996 and January 2012.


6 posted on 02/02/2016 8:00:15 AM PST by Ted Grant
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Gee, I have heard this song and dance somewhere before. We elect a bunch of Rs and what happens?? not a damn thing... SOS...


7 posted on 02/02/2016 8:03:58 AM PST by wyowolf
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Don’t count on a landslide. I really think Dems are going to sneak someone in one us...like Joe


11 posted on 02/02/2016 8:11:13 AM PST by RummyChick
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Sadly, this is wishful thinking.


18 posted on 02/02/2016 8:37:29 AM PST by nickcarraway
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I will guess that most of that 11% “intensity” gap is based on the passion of Trump supporters.

Nationally, I don't hear political independents and non-white voters chanting the names “Cruz” or “Rubio.”

And, to my eye, the Cruz victory in Iowa means that Trump has generated only a limited amount of passion from traditional Republican Conservatives.

I think Trump still has a very steep road to the GOP nomination.

I think Clinton will win the Democrat nomination without much trouble, unless the MSM turns on her again, as they did in 2008.

And, I think Clinton will be very hard to beat in November, no matter whom the GOP nominates.

19 posted on 02/02/2016 8:37:30 AM PST by zeestephen
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“I will forgive all your student loans. I will make tuition and health care a right, and FREE. I will make bank fees illegal, and send some Wall Street bankers to jail.”

Say that to Democrats and they’ll close the enthusiasm gap in a hurry, believe you me.


20 posted on 02/02/2016 8:55:20 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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There are some things working this year in the GOP’s favor than 2012.

1)Public anger is growing. Yeah, they're angry at the GOP but historically, the party that has the WH gets punished.
2)DC outsider candidates on the GOP side
3)Any democrat running this year is going to have to convince a skeptical public that BHO was a success and to let them have his third term.
4)Anxiety about the economy is growing. And the direction of the USA

22 posted on 02/02/2016 9:14:09 AM PST by LMAO ("Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more" Anthem by Rush)
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Yes, I think we are going to have a very good year, despite all of the doom and gloom I hear on FR.


24 posted on 02/02/2016 12:58:52 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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