Posted on 07/30/2015 7:27:50 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
In 1980 Ronald Reagan was losing to Jimmy Carter til the day they counted the votes…
The LIV has little idea about Hillary and Bill for that matter. Many of the millennials have no recollection of the Clinton era and the scandals.
The Dem game plan is to get the LIV to vote against the GOP. Doesn’t matter who the GOP candidate is in that scenario.
And the GOP game plan is to inform the LIV about the Clintons and their mendacity.
The night before the November, 1980 presidential election the media was saying it was “too close to call.”
I was living in California at the time, and it was mid-afternoon on election day when the media called the race for Reagan.
The good ‘ole days.
Agreed. I polling disgusts me, since it’s so obviously manipulated.
I met Stan Greenberg (former Clinton’s pollster and Rep. Rosa DeLaura’s husband)
I asked him in a public forum held for my Connectcut college if polls should be trusted since the questions are often loaded. He replied quite candidly that shaping public opinion and outcomes was one of the goals of polling.
If I ran GOP strategy sessions, I’d emphasize Principle first, over polling. And I agree - the GOP should farm citizen indignation over Democrat’s obscene corruption and overwhelming economic failure.
That assumes the GOP wants / deserves to win...
The largest crowd for Dems or the GOP (drawn so far) is the one is Phoenix, in which Sanders drew more than 11,000 people.
In another town, albeit a very small town (40,000 people), Sanders drew 1/8 of the total population to his event. No one on either side has equaled that percentage yet.
One good thing that can be said about him is that he can pull in the numbers for a speech.
F&F’s Doocy was doing a street survey this morning. It was a placard with high school pictures of many of the 2016 wannabes.
Most of the wannabes were easily recognizable. However, it seemed that several of those who were asked to associate names with the pix were unable to do so.
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The general public is not paying attention. Most of them could not name more than 4 or 5 of the nearly 20 announced wannabes from both parties.
They won’t be paying much attention until the time of their state primaries.
The polls and even the debates will draw mainly news junkies.
Cruz is the closest.
OTOH, much of America was still clueless as to who Romney actually was even after he secured the nomination and the MSM was pretty well able to define him for that large, clueless segment.
They won't have that advantage with Donald Trump. Trump is at least as well known to them as Lindsey Lohan.
Trump will crush Hillary. It won’t even be close. And it will be hilarious to see dirty old man Bill staring at Melania’s butt before the first debate, captured and put all over Twitter to the Hildebeast’s enraged shame.
If polls right now are just drawing news junkies and if Trump talks about how well he is doing in the polls, then should he continue doing this?
Romney was a wet noodle, he inspired no one.
Trump inspires people, that’s why the Rats are scared s-less of him, he can tap into their monopoly of the LIV vote.
Romney won only 59% of the white vote to Obama's 39%.
Pat Caddell supposedly gave his final projection to Carter 4 days before the election, and he had nailed the actual totals to within 1/2 of 1%.
The lastest attack on Trump now that the other ones have failed is “Trump can’t win the general”.
I can just hear all the couch potatoes across America whine "Wow! That s.o.b. Trump is going to make me work or cut off my free stuff!"
They didn't have this great of a fear with Romney especially when his opponent was Santa Claus.
Those are the ones who vote Rat no matter what. It's a sunk cost.
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