Posted on 05/29/2016 5:12:30 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Donald Trump announced this weekend he puts 15 states potentially into play in the general election this year.
The states include: — Ohio — Florida — Virginia — Minnesota — Michigan — Pennsylvania — Wisconsin — New York — Maine — California
** Plus Donald Trump is beating Hillary Clinton in the latest Oregon poll and is essentially tied with Hillary in New Hampshire -two more traditional blue states.
And Hillary Clinton hasn’t even been indicted yet!
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DJT has a wall filled with awards from the NY Jewish community. His daughter is a member of it. His life has been entwined with it since a child— roommates in school ; his dad’s partner that often had DJT as a guest during Jewish Holidays. ; close tie between he and Isreal ; allowing the Palm Beach Jewish community to become members of his club when they were denied membership in ALL the others
Disagree. If he goes after those states, hlary will have to spend money to defend them.
In the late eighties from Manchester to the MA border it became a Mass colony. And the Lakes region is simply NY and MA refugees.
Like VT, the natives are getting rare.
Another thing for sure is, when he’s in office, he won’t be screwing the tax payers over with assloads of golfi outings and vacations.
Not going to happen with confidence.
I love it!!!
You got that right!
Hillary will go down in flames.
Loads of people from Massachusetts moved there
George, General George Patton, sir, is that you?
First you’re wrong about Perot. We know that because he actually did drop out, then came back. The first poll after he returned Clinton’s numbers dropped by twice as much as Bush’s. Clinton’s lead was cut in half by his reentry. Furthermore exit polls showed that 38% of Perot voters said Bush was their first choice, and 38% said Clinton was their first choice. The notion that Perot cost Bush the election was an excuse put out by the Bushies to explain away his loss.
Second, where’s your evidence that Libertarian voters would vote Republican? To hear it on FR, libertarians are supposed to be liberals in disguise. That’s nonsense of course, but there’s no real evidence that they would go Pub either.
Finally the latest Fox poll with Trump vs. Clinton has Trump 45, Clinton 42. The same poll with Johnson added is Trump 42, Clinton 39, Johnson 10. Trump has a 3% lead either way. No difference.
There are just no facts to back up your opinion.
You won’t change the country by ignoring half of it
“Redrawing the battle map is a sign of a leader, not another limp wristed beta male leaders we had the past few election cycles.”
I agree completely.
Trump is in it to win it, and we, along with him.
People need to turn out and vote. Trump is doing all he can, and we need to do as well.
I don’t know Minnesota’s polling, but I do know California’s. Every poll comes out has Hillary with a double digit lead, until you start peering into the internals and the numbers start dropping like a rock. Quite a few prediction sites had Hillary at +14 7 days ago in California, then +12 3 days ago, and now it’s +9 with the latest polls.
A five point drop when she’s blowing cash like water being flushed down the deltas to protect smelt. To quote Trump, that’s YUGE. Should Bernie actually pull out a win in California and NOT get the nomination?
By the by, to put it in perspective, California was +24 for Obama vs McCain, and +23 for Obama vs Romney. Hillary’s single-handedly dropped that down by more than half.
At the very least Trump is gonna force Hillary to spend time and money in typically Democratic leaning states. That Oregon poll is a sign of things to come and I’m not buying the notion the Dems can slip Uncle Joe or Fauxahontas in to save the day. They’re gonna have to commit massive fraud, regardless of the nominee, to save their hides in November.
But Trump is no Romney.
Thank God!
I think you are right.
“Romney ... barely lost gets Trump to 269 then that’s what should be done.”
That’s the Karl Rove strategy. It got us into the Electoral College mess we are in now. Play things safe and hope to win just enough ... the “prevent” strategy.
It works sometimes (2004). It fails miserably other times (2008 & 2012 ... part of the 2006 mess was Rove reusing his tired strategy ... even 2000 came down to a coin toss for all intents and purposes).
When you play the ‘prevent’ strategy, you’ll eventually lose big time. The problem is that you sacrifice long term potential for short term gain. After a while, you are going to start to lose what you win “safely” since the Communists aren’t going to sit on their asses and enjoy losing. They adapt. As a result, we’ve seen VA and NC become purple since we were too concerned about holding on to what we have vs. growing.
The Democrats are making a similar mistake. They assume that they’ll always have a firm grip on minorities. People aren’t stupid. They eventually come around. While they like to shout “Demographics is destiny” in our faces, all of that nonsense can be erased with a conservative delivering on campaign promises. If Trump were to play a role in righting the economy and getting people back to work, we’d take a significant number of those minorities Democrats love to exploit and the Democratic party would fracture.
The GOP strategy to win majorities in lots of State Houses and Governor’s mansions was very wise ... that was NOT a ‘prevent’ strategy. That was a growth strategy and that helps build the farm team for federal elections (so long as they are not RINOs). However, it’s about time we adapted that state level strategy and used it for a POTUS campaign.
I’ll agree that states like CA are pretty much a lost cause. It’d take a miracle to win it. However, some parts of the Northeast and Midwest considered written off by the RINOs are certainly states a candidate like Trump can and will win.
I can assure you that Pennsylvania is 100% worth advertising dollars this time around. The Pittsburgh metro area is a perfect example of an area where Republicans have an opportunity to grow vs. ignore. They have an opportunity to offset Philadelphia nonsense by winning over people here in SW PA. Seeing that the rest of the state is fairly conservative, someone like Trump could certainly win by taking a relatively small risk and campaigning in this area. States like Wisconsin and Michigan are very similar to SW PA ... the same strategy that works in this area would work well in those two states + Ohio.
Call me greedy, but I want to see Trump go out there and win the POTUS election with historical margins and see the House and Senate remain in solid Republican control. I want to see tons of pictures of liberals crying much like they did when Bush beat Kerry. I want to see liberals panicking and packing their bags for Canada. If Trump earns a decisive mandate, the moderates in Congress will more than likely move to the right and we can FINALLY get things moving in the right direction.
The John McCains and the like aren’t going to have much of a voice this time around ... they could walk all over someone like Bush ... they won’t be able to do that to Trump. No “Gangs of N number of idiots” are going to have any power against someone who knows exactly how to negotiate for the win. I just hope and pray Trump means what he says ... we have an opportunity here to break the Democratic Party’s back, end the late 1960s, and restore quite a bit of sanity to the Republic. Liberalism will never fully go away, but we have the opportunity to bury it for a while if we get Trump in office and he delivers.
Florida is not “in play.”
It is a solid Trump lock.
Yup!
Despite the talk of “cool Grandma” doing yoga, she looks like she would need a tow truck to hoist her for each downward dog...Donald Trump seems to draw energy from his events; since Hil hates all the little people, she will lose energy fast if she has to step up her schedule.
I predict she’ll use Chelsea giving birth as an excuse this summer to rest up.
Alito, age 66, was appointed by W and is a reliable conservative. He should be around for a while yet.
There is Scalia’s spot that would hopefully be filled by someone as conservative as Scalia was.
Ginsburg is 83 and Breyer is 77. Kennedy, at age 80 is also up there in age. He sides with the liberals as often as he does with the conservatives.
Roberts has been a disappointment.
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