Posted on 01/02/2016 12:04:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Comes now a story in the New York Times, making a similar point or two:
Donald Trump holds a dominant position in national polls in no small part because he is extremely strong among people on the periphery of the Republican coalition.
He is strongest among Republicans who are less affluent, less educated and less likely to turn out to vote. His very best voters are self-identified Republicans who nonetheless are registered as Democrats. It's a coalition that's concentrated in the South, Appalachia and the industrial North, according to data provided to The Upshot by Civis Analytics, a Democratic data firm.
Mr. Trump's huge advantage among these groups poses a challenge for his campaign, because it may not have the turnout operation necessary to mobilize irregular voters....
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
There isn’t any agreement among his supporters on the “right things” to do, or at least they haven’t considered the fallout and unintended consequences of bad policy, but Trump does seem conceited and arrogant enough to avoid failing in front of the world at all cost. You have to put a certain faith in the minimal amount of damage he is willing to inflict.
I get them, too, but I ignore them. I’m not sure why that is such a problem for some.
“There isn’t any agreement among his supporters on the “right things†to do, or at least they haven’t considered the fallout and unintended consequences of bad policy...”
I’ve considered it, and it’s hard to imagine how the fallout and unintended consequences of bad Trump policies could hold a candle to the intentional destruction - now and to come - wrought by Obama’s bad policies. And in spite of those policies we’re still (marginally) here, so I’ll chance voting for Trump. Cruz is my 2nd choice and is lower risk than Trump - but along with the risks, Trump is also the only candidate who offers the plausible possibility of doing something unexpectedly great. We need “great”. Time is short.
Glad to see back in the fray...had not seen you online for a while!
I bounce between Trump and Cruz. Cruz stands stronger than Trump right now, however, I have to say that I applaud Trump the majority of the time that he opens his mouth. He pushes those snarky progressives back just about every time. What passes through my mind comes out of Trump’s mouth.
However, I like Cruz’s thoroughness and systematic, and largely conservative approach. What I question is how he is going to implement some of the down-sizing of the government bureaucracies like the IRS, DOE, DOL. He is correct in appealing to Christians as he is in many ways the antithesis of Obama.
Trump appeals to a broad base of the population; all political, religious, economic, racial persuasions. Some of his appeal is that he is where everyman wants to be and he belongs to no one man except himself. He responds without testing the polls and he frames the issues.
The GOPe and other progressives do him a service by denigrating and belaboring his negatives; too many see them as positives. Me, too.
Actually, the same applies to the GOPe. Trump’s base includes disaffected Republicans.
I’m proud to be one of the lesser educated knuckle draggers supporting Trump.
I didn’t know Cruz supported a VAT tax. That’s horrible. VATs are the worst of all taxes because they are invisible.
I question how any candidate is going to downsize government, especially whether Trump genuinely understands the depths of the corruption in Washington and the toughness required to take it on and drop it a notch or two.
Read up on allocation, rules, etc., for delegates: http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R-Alloc.phtml
Exactly.
However, it has to be done and someone has to start somewhere. I for one are sick and tired at the cavalier attitude those in all levels of government have towards OUR money.
I read all of this.
“The cultural divide between the “educated class” and the rest of the country opened in the interwar years. Some Progressives joined the “vanguard of the proletariat,” the Communist Party. Many more were deeply sympathetic to Soviet Russia, as they were to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Not just the Nation, but also the New York Times and National Geographic found much to be imitated in these regimes because they promised energetically to transcend their peoples’ ways and to build “the new man.” Above all, our educated class was bitter about America. In 1925 the American Civil Liberties Union sponsored a legal challenge to a Tennessee law that required teaching the biblical account of creation. The ensuing trial, radio broadcast nationally, as well as the subsequent hit movie Inherit the Wind, were the occasion for what one might have called the Chautauqua class to drive home the point that Americans who believed in the Bible were willful ignoramuses. As World War II approached, some American Progressives supported the Soviet Union (and its ally, Nazi Germany) and others Great Britain and France. But Progressives agreed on one thing: the approaching war should be blamed on the majority of Americans, because they had refused to lead the League of Nations.”
http://spectator.org/articles/39326/americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution
It’s long.
In short, there’s the ruling/political class and the rest of us/the country class. A class hell bent on power for itself, and one living with the power the other class wants.
“I’ve been a Republican since I was 12 years old...”
I’ve been a maggot since my drill sergeant called me that at MCRD in San Diego.
:)
I have a Bachelors degree in business and a masters certification in project management. I am voting trump or Cruz. Been working for almost 42 years.
Are they in the academic world?
Yeah, he's going to inflict a lot of damage all right...
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Especially on his family...
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Been thinking about that. If Trump gets the nod, he just shuttle back and forth between Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago. If a Republican takes New York and Florida it’s lights out for the Democrats no matter what happens elsewhere.
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