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Trump’s Ceiling of Support May Be Limited
The New York Times ^ | 2/11/16 | Sean Trende

Posted on 02/13/2016 12:50:30 PM PST by TBBT

Few professional analysts seriously expected six months ago that Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination. But after Tuesday night, it is a clear possibility.

How much of a possibility? To get that answer right, it is important to understand some things about the Trump phenomenon.

Perhaps most important, Trump's campaign is not a Tea Party phenomenon. While there's been a tendency to try to lump Trump in with various G.O.P. insurgencies of the last few years, that role is best filled by Sen. Ted Cruz, who really occupies the "Tea Party lane" of the G.O.P. primary more cleanly.

Instead, Trump is a part of a much older insurgency within the G.O.P., dating back to the 1992 Pat Buchanan campaign and even to some internal debates within the Nixon administration. Candidates in this vein, such as Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Rick Santorum, have argued from varying angles that the economic libertarianism of the G.O.P. is a tough sell, and should be pulled more toward an economic populism that allows for increased redistribution and for helping the "little guy" who has been left behind in the era of globalization. It is because of this confusion that so many of the early attacks on Trump - from questioning his conservative bona fides to making fun of the way he talked - fell flat. Trump's voters simply didn't care about these things.

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To: TBBT

As interesting as anything from this column is:

“He isn’t the second choice of very many voters...”

He actually IS my second choice.


61 posted on 02/13/2016 1:09:40 PM PST by John W (Under One Year And Counting!)
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To: altura

Quite pollyanna.


62 posted on 02/13/2016 1:09:45 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: TBBT

Teacher says, every time an editorial writer predicts Trump's demise, another GOPe candidate drops out of the race.

That's right my little Pocket Turtle, that's right.

63 posted on 02/13/2016 1:09:57 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s not a particularly smart reply.

I’m guessing you did not read the article but simply assumed it to be negative.

Ordinarily a good assumption from the Times but wrong in tis case.

Please go back and read it so that you can make intelligent comments in the future.


64 posted on 02/13/2016 1:10:19 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: dp0622

He will never got more than 100% of living, elgible voters. Only someone running as a democrat can do that.


65 posted on 02/13/2016 1:10:30 PM PST by LostPassword
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To: altura

Nah.


66 posted on 02/13/2016 1:11:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism" --Vladimir Lenin)
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To: TBBT

OH PLz!

I have come to hate the political process..

Sausage making is easier to stomach than what has become a dance to the death for all.. So moribund is the vision of our “leaders”.. We live in a fog of regulations and rules..

Bound to fates we neither choose willingly nor support obligingly like sheople.

Yet pay and pay.. And pay for.


67 posted on 02/13/2016 1:11:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: altura
Who are the other thirteen? I'd love to see them.

The ones you and your fellow travelers ping to the threads.
68 posted on 02/13/2016 1:11:30 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: PA Engineer
Coming from a card carrying member of the gang of 14.

I prefer to think of them as members of The Face of God cultists.

69 posted on 02/13/2016 1:11:44 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

What kind of retard writes a column like this?

Trump’s support is a maximum of 320 milliion and only goes down from there.

With 1/3 being democRATS, then we are down to 200 million, and then with and 1/3 being independents, we are down to 100 million, and then we are down to 1/3 of that (assuming 3 candidates divided equally) then we are down to 33 million. That’s the ballpark using, basics. everything else is just wiggle.


70 posted on 02/13/2016 1:12:20 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: altura
Wow. I seem to have misplaced my card but, thanks.

You have a posting history. You are not fooling anyone.
71 posted on 02/13/2016 1:12:40 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: altura

Cruz people are so sure.

If only I were that sure.


72 posted on 02/13/2016 1:13:22 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
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To: publius911

I know.

But I just can’t trust Trump to be steadfast and do the things he’s promised.

There is nothing in his history to make me believe that. Until 2011, he was quite liberal.

He changes every few days on little things like whether Cruz is a great guy and would be a good veep to he’s going to sue Cruz if Cruz keeps hurting his feelings and trying to win the nomination.

I think he may be a little bi-polar which could be a good thing in a business man but no so much in a president.


73 posted on 02/13/2016 1:13:28 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: stocksthatgoup

You’re not sure?


74 posted on 02/13/2016 1:14:01 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: BobL

Trump mentioned that seat last night, and said the MSM would be pointing it out ;-0) (Not that particular one, but he actually did make the exact point you are in the Tampa speech).


75 posted on 02/13/2016 1:14:10 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: chajin

Extremely wishful thinking.


76 posted on 02/13/2016 1:14:19 PM PST by The Toll
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To: TBBT

Apparently calling out BS Trump supporters is worthy of censoring comments. Bite me.


77 posted on 02/13/2016 1:14:23 PM PST by festusbanjo (Obama..Incompetent, Untrustworthy, Lawless, Arrogant. The one that our founders warned us about.)
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To: JoSixChip

Somebody is going to hit their limit at some point.


78 posted on 02/13/2016 1:14:24 PM PST by festusbanjo (Obama..Incompetent, Untrustworthy, Lawless, Arrogant. The one that our founders warned us about.)
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To: PA Engineer

Well, I am totally not ashamed of my posting history and I’m not trying to fool anyone.

What the heck are you implying?


79 posted on 02/13/2016 1:15:11 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: BobL

OMG! Say it isn’t so! Well, that changes everything for me. One empty seat is unacceptable. What a LOSER! ;-)


80 posted on 02/13/2016 1:15:20 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Romans 8:38-39)
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