Posted on 03/25/2016 7:35:13 AM PDT by GilGil
May I, as a Ted Cruz supporter, just step in here for a minute and explain why Donald Trump, as Republican nominee for president, will win a landslide election victory over Hillary and actually be a welcome alternative to the kind of leadership America has experienced for the last 27 years?
I don’t care what the national polls say now about a matchup between Trump and Clinton. I am old enough to remember vividly what the polls between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter looked like in 1980 at this point in the presidential campaign. They suggested Reagan had no chance to win. He trailed Carter in the polls by double digits. He went on to carry 44 states that year, including New York and California – 49 states four years later.
That is very close to what I expect Trump to do to Hillary if he becomes the nominee.
Why do I think that?
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If this is true, the remaining question is which major news outlet will jump on the bandwagon for the ratings. You know they are all drooling over the thought of getting monster ratings.
Will it be CNN?
“Has Cruz commented on any of this?”
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Sorry FRPs but I’ve been out of the loop the past couple days....what’s going on with Cruz? Last I heard he won Utah and was going to win Wisc? What’s going on?
If this proves to be not true, then it makes Cruz look really good. So it cuts both ways.
I guarantee they are looking into it. This would be the biggest bombshell of the campaign season until charges are recommended against Hillary.
What a mess.
I predict Ted Cruz will soon make an appearance saying “it doesn’t take much to make me angry,” but don’t start attacking my family and mistresses.
Anyone who espouses so much religious ferocity and aligns with wacko Glen Beck to reinforce it, has serious problems.
Everyone has gone silent. All are probably feverishly trying to find out who knows what.
Last Cruz tweet: 20 hours ago.
Last Trump tweet: 17 hours ago.
“The #TedCruzSexScandal changes everything. I feel sorry for his daughters”
I hope everyone will join me in praying for these little girls and also Barron.
Cruz may have had 5 affairs according to the National Enquirer.
Yup. Hadn’t heard about the tape, though.
Looks to me like the story broke earlier than expected.
Unfortunately unlike BJ and his bimbo eruptions, it looks like we’ll be discussing this strictly on FR mail soon as the mods keep yanking posts on it.
Sounds like she's saying, "Not me!"
What tells me something my be majorly up is that Trump is totally silent letting the National Enquirer do the damage.
Yes, I remember how Carter beat Reagan, er that was what we had been told for months!
Special Report
How Carter Beat Reagan
Washington Post admits polling was “in-kind contribution”; New York Times agenda polling.
By Jeffrey Lord – 9.25.12
Remember when Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980?
That’s right. Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980.
In a series of nine stories in 1980 on “Crucial States” — battleground states as they are known today — the New York Times repeatedly told readers then-President Carter was in a close and decidedly winnable race with the former California governor. And used polling data from the New York Times/CBS polls to back up its stories.
Four years later, it was the Washington Post that played the polling game — and when called out by Reagan campaign manager Ed Rollins a famous Post executive called his paper’s polling an “in-kind contribution to the Mondale campaign.” Mondale, of course, being then-President Reagan’s 1984 opponent and Carter’s vice president.
All of which will doubtless serve as a reminder of just how blatantly polling data is manipulated by liberal media — used essentially as a political weapon to support the liberal of the moment, whether Jimmy Carter in 1980, Walter Mondale in 1984 — or Barack Obama in 2012.
First the Times in 1980 and how it played the polling game.
The states involved, and the datelines for the stories:
· California — October 6, 1980
· Texas — October 8, 1980
· Pennsylvania — October 10, 1980
· Illinois — October 13, 1980
· Ohio — October 15, 1980
· New Jersey — October 16, 1980
· Florida — October 19, 1980
· New York — October 21, 1980
· Michigan — October 23, 1980
Of these nine only one was depicted as “likely” for Reagan: Reagan’s own California. A second — New Jersey — was presented as a state that “appears to support” Reagan.
The Times led their readers to believe that each of the remaining seven states were “close” — or the Times had Carter leading outright.
In every single case the Times was proven grossly wrong on election day. Reagan in fact carried every one of the nine states.
Here is how the Times played the game with the seven of the nine states in question.
• Texas: In a story datelined October 8 from Houston, the Times headlined:
Texas Looming as a Close Battle Between President and Reagan
The Reagan-Carter race in Texas, the paper claimed, had “suddenly tightened and now shapes up as a close, bruising battle to the finish.” The paper said “a New York Times/CBS News Poll, the second of seven in crucial big states, showing the Reagan-Carter race now a virtual dead heat despite a string of earlier polls on both sides that had shown the state leaning toward Mr. Reagan.”
The narrative? It was like the famous scene in the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy and her friends stare in astonishment as dog Toto pulls back the curtain in the wizard’s lair to reveal merely a man bellowing through a microphone. Causing the startled “wizard” caught in the act to frantically start yelling, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” In the case of the Times in its look at Texas in October of 1980 the paper dismissed “a string of earlier polls on both sides” that repeatedly showed Texas going for Reagan. Instead, the Times presented this data:
A survey of 1,050 registered voters, weighted to form a probable electorate, gave Mr. Carter 40 percent support, Mr. Reagan 39 percent, John. B. Anderson, the independent candidate, 3 percent, and 18 percent were undecided. The survey, conducted by telephone from Oct. 1 to Oct. 6, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
In other words, the race in Texas is close, assures the Times, with Carter actually in the lead.
What happened? Reagan beat Carter by over 13 points. It wasn’t even close to close.
http://spectator.org/articles/34732/how-carter-beat-reagan
Way too weird. Something is up. Not saying what, but definitely something's rotten in the state of Denmark.
Either that or she is giving the story legs by even mentioning it.
The strategy becomes so obvious now. Use Cruz to take down Trump, and then pull this card out against Cruz right before the convention. Easy-peasy . . .
Seal the border, build a wall and enforce immigration laws. This is without a doubt one of the most important priorities for America’s safety and security. If we don’t do this, we will cease to be a sovereign, self-governing republic in the next generation.
If the Republican Congress sends Trump a bill repealing Obamacare, he will sign it.
If the Republican Congress sends Trump a budget that cuts spending, taxes and regulation, he will sign it.
If the Republican Congress gets serious about freezing the debt and balancing the budget, Trump will approve.
Trump will take on and defeat ISIS.
BINGO!!!
“I haven’t met any Cruz supporter (formerly that included me) that believes Trump will be Hillary”
Why would a Cruz supporter admit to believing Trump can beat Hillary?
Hello?
Coming out of the twitter shadows after 16 hours.
Wonder what she'll say, if anything?
I hope it is not true and I won’t buy based on what is out there right now. However, as I said before, it seems like the only people who want to run for President are narcissists and this is what you get - we are always looking for a hero and what we get are flawed human beings who just can’t seem to help themselves.
I started with Cruz, but his campaign has turned me off (way before this story), but I remain ABH like my tagline.
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