13+11.4=24.4 (Bush + Carson) 13+11.4+6.8=31.2 (Bush + Carson + Cruz)
Trump attracts more GOP primary voters than the next three candidates combined.
Posted on 08/22/2015 12:20:05 AM PDT by entropy12
“Trump has the populist touch and would be a big draw to like-minded black Americans. Look at the two women who made the pro-Trump videos. Trump has balls, and people of all backgrounds have respect for this.”
You are exactly right. If Trump wins in the primaries, in the general election, I think many will be surprised at how well Trump will do among Blacks and Hispanics.
“...Not one person of “ color “ in this photo ...”
Look again, one leaning over the rail just to the picture right of the lady in the striped dress.
That is the part the GOPe doesn’t want out there.Trump is going to draw crossover votes. Much more than the ‘moderate’ like Jeb.
And part of the reason is that Trump is not going to be taking far right social positions. And the conservative base will need to be comfortable with that. I am because I think Trump’s other positions on immigration and the economy are badly needed.
I suspect Trump cuts into the black vote and the legal hispanic vote, and the others don't. It's their neighborhoods and jobs that are most affected by the invaders and by basic manufacturing jobs going overseas. Romney was too stupid, arrogant, or disinterested in winning to address those issues directly to people who had become disillusioned with Obama. JMHO
Exactly!
I think many of us lose sight of the fact that most of the things we want in society are things people have to do themselves to be morally worthwhile.
If people choose to do immorality, it's not the government's job to restrain them: it's our job to persuade them.
Even with issues such as abortion, I applaud the under-cover warriors who have done more to bloody the nose of Planned Parenthood in the last six weeks, than all the "pro-life marches" have in the last thirty years.
I do not want to derail a Trump thread on abortion, but I do think that Trump may in the end not have a problem getting enough women to vote for him to win. I think there is a subset of otherwise politically moderate women voters who do silently vote for the pro abortion candidate in every election as one of their primary issues.
This subset didn’t trust even “Romney” to not take away abortion rights. They might however trust Trump, simply because Trump has held liberal views in the past and doesn’t appear to threatening to them on that issue.
Frankly I think this is why some Dems are cautious and fearful of a Trump candidacy because they can’t trap him on social or personal lifestyle issues like they have done with other GOP candidates in the past.
13+11.4=24.4 (Bush + Carson) 13+11.4+6.8=31.2 (Bush + Carson + Cruz)
Trump attracts more GOP primary voters than the next three candidates combined.
A lot of red, white and blue colors in the photo though. Colors of old glory and the stars and bars.
That is pretty impressive.
(And you do know, that really is his hair, right?)
Having over 30 percent with 17 some odd candidates running is pretty darn good!
It's a feint. Mouth-breathing knee-jerk leftists who assume it's a toupee, will jump on board and get shamed.
Secondly, when people who *do* know better, correct them: it takes away his hair as an issue.
And finally, I like puns. And this one was too good to pass up.
... Besides, the caption is true anyway. You don't think that's the *cat's* actual hairstyle, do you?
Agree, outstanding and way outside the margin of error.
This is how our country is supposed to work. Persuading compliance with free speech as opposed to forcing compliance.
I am guessing they are taking into account margin of error.
If it was 3%, the numbers could be 29:19 or could be 35:13.
If America indeed comes back, Trump will have unbelievable legacy.
If you recall Tea Party rallies of 4 years ago, it was also very little color. The Rats hace succeeded in brain washing the blacks & Hispanics that republicans will take away their food stamps, and they may have to actually go to work.
Won’t raise spending if we can ax the Department of reEducation and many other redundant, useless and harassing agencies. All the agencies can take some big cuts, especially the IRS.
The DOD is going to need an overhaul and it’s budget studied carefully. Obama planted a bunch of spending on P.C. junk into the DOD. He also drew it’s efforts from foreign threats to domestic threats - and that would be Vets and conservatives - not Muslim jihadists and their supporters.
Since when is GOPe worried about more spending and debt?
I have 2 recent college graduate kids. They have tons of college age friends. And both always tell me, their friends do not like republicans only because they are too rigid on women’s abortion rights. My counter-point always is that presidents have almost no bearing on abortion laws. But of course youngsters get their information from TV clips, and not from reading anything substantive.
Still split between Cruz and Trump, but you have to admire how Trump is clearing the playing field. Best case now might be VP Cruz running for President after 8 years of Trump.
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