Why the hell is this guy writing about 1996? All the pundit said was that the victory margin was going to be huge. There was no other comparison being drawn, so why write about one?
Stirewalt is a simp - where the hell did he come from?
Bob Dole rolled over by Labor Day. I don't think he was within 10 points of Clinton since. I don't think even Viagra would have helped his cause.
This is more like a 1980 election.
The general thrust of the meaning of the Trump campaign is accurate—and all the elites are in denial on that point.
I believe the “polls” are blatant propaganda, polling malpractice, and I believe Trump should win (even after Democrat fraudulent votes are manufactured), but it is not 100% guaranteed so the larger point is valid.
We are living in interesting times indeed, and I see many parallels with the pre Civil War period.
There was a meeting in the 1820s between John Quincy Adams and John Calhoun where the long term future of the country was discussed. It was a cordial discussion. Both men disagreed on the major issues of the time (representing different parts of the country) and they were trying to figure out if some sort of lasting compromise could be reached. They concluded it could not be—that the differences were too great and they both predicted that would be a Civil War at some point.
It took forty years after their meeting for the Civil War to start.
So maybe we have forty years left or maybe none or maybe somewhere in between.
I admit that I am not very good at predictions—so I won’t go there.