The Paris attacks have only made Donald Trump stronger

The Washington Post ^ | 11/22/2015 | Philip Bump

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Not to unduly stress out Reince Priebus and the other members of the Republican establishment, but there are only 71 days until the Iowa caucuses, and only eight more days after that until New Hampshire. That's of now, Sunday, Nov. 22, a day on which a slew of new polls show that Donald Trump has improved his leads in both of those states and nationally.

Seventy-one days ago, the national Republican front-runner was ... Donald Trump, who led by 13.8 points in the Real Clear Politics polling average. Seventy-one days before that, though, the front-runner was Jeb Bush. If you add Bush's national polling average to that of the second-place candidate, Ben Carson, Trump would still be winning by two points.

This is something of a reversal. Here's the long-term trend of Trump's lead in both states and nationally.

[McGruff]

Want some cheese with your whine?

[Bon mots]

The MSM, GOPe, Dems & status quo are terrified and pulling out all the stops to destroy him...

[miss marmelstein]

No, he did give me the heebie-jeebies, though.

[humblegunner]

Want some cheese with your whine?

Need some lube around south?

[kiryandil]

“You can’t win, Darth Media/GOPe. If you try to strike Trump down, he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

[Mount Athos]

A few months before the election this place turns into a junior high food fight

[kiryandil]

bumblegummer wrote to miss marmelstein:

You seem to have Perryitis.

You might need a big hit of Gardasil.

Aren't YOU the lucky one, miss marmelstein! You've been gummed by The Bumble!

[M. Thatcher]

You are vile.

[humblegunner]

Have you some sort of problem you would like to address?

[kiryandil]

Oh, shut up, bumble.

[humblegunner]

Brilliant.
Well played.

[kiryandil]

A few months before the election this place turns into a junior high food fight

Oh, boy! Is this GREAT!

click on the pic to hear Flounder call it!

Oh, boy! Is this GREAT!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

A few months before the election this place turns into a junior high food fight

[kiryandil]

Just ignore him when he’s gumming on his latest “victim”. :)

[humblegunner]

You are vile.

[laplata]

Trump is doing well because everybody is sick and tired of Taqiyyan lyin’ left and their leader, the Muslim liar in chief

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That’s right.

[SamAdams76]

I agree with you about those Rick Perry photos that certain people would post. There's also another subset (all men I believe) of Freepers who post homoerotic photos of Vladimir Putin. Such as riding shirtless on a horse and things like that. Those are hard to stomach.

[laplata]

Absent an alien abduction Trump is the GOP nominee.

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Those who are so inclined might want to say some prayers for Mr. Trump’s safety. The same goes for Ted Cruz.

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, I agree! I couldn’t abide the guys who did that. And the short-waisted, stocky Putin wasn’t exactly quite the beauty they made him out to be.

[laplata]

No, really?

I mean.. you post about so many other things it’s hard to tell.

Right?

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Many are capable of doing that. They have positive contributions to make. But some don’t have the capacity to see it.