I only agree because while Trump is loudly proclaiming all the reasons not to vote for him Hilary is quietly covering hers up. So yeah, maybe... The GOP is taking a lot of flack for the current state of our candidates but if you take out the unknown that Trump introduced, the process might have worked toward a more reasonable GOP candidate like Kaisch. The Dems on the other hand have know for 8 years that they need somebody better than Hilary once Obama is gone and yet she is going to be the chosen one with the only other option being Bernie Sanders? Basically a complete fail on both sides except there is no way the GOP could have accounted for Trump. The worst part of all this is that Trump has introduced a new type of candidate and campaign and we are going to see a lot more like him in the future.
I agree with you 100% on that. 2020 will be even worse; hopefully nobody with Trump's exact "skill set" for rallying this kind of following though. But loud, brash, impolite, xenophobic apparently works, so we'll get a bunch of clones in the next election. Maybe even the midterms in 18.
Thought I responded. 200 that Trump doesn't win the election on my end, the opposite on yours, correct?
Just wanted to quote this so it would appear again. Great post and something us in the D&D should take to heart more often.
So what you're saying here is that Trump supporters are using a Hitler salute, but that Obama supporters did too. This helps Trump how?!?!?
You are out of touch. The GOP should be taking a lot of flack for their candidates and voting habits of base. You can dislike Clinton and Sanders, but there is very little "crazy" being said by either one of them. There are no discussions of dick size, no moans about building a wall, no bickering. The Dems have pretty much gone about business as usual. The Dems have known they need someone better than Clinton? How so, she currently has close to a 70% chance of being President, and has a grass roots campaign/machine that even puts Obama to shame. She has mileage but is certainly electable.
Clinton's chance at winning is directly tied to Trump's chance at winning the Republican nomination. Hillary probably loses in a race against anyone else.
Honestly, I don't either. I just thought it was kinda funny. Ya gotta admit though. Trump supporters resemble Obama hard core supporters in one really disturbing way. And that is their belief that their candidate can do no wrong.
The field is the field, and I am also not so sure that is the case. Clinton has been being beaten up for years; Cruz and Rubio has not and when the focus shifts it will have an effect. Clinton isn't as good a candidate as her husband, or GWB. However she is a better candidate than many other nominees from both parties. Part of what makes her a viable candidate is the incredible machine and influence she has, coupled with a husband that is an incredible campaigner.
Sanders supporters think he walks on water. When he does poorly is always because the corporate power structure suppresses or fools people... it is never than he just isn't THAT good a candidate.
Clinton has super high unfavorability numbers, the only candidate on either side with higher unfavorability numbers is Trump. People don't trust Hillary, people don't like Hillary. People dislike and distrust Hillary so much that a Socialist is giving her a run for her money in the Democratic nomination.....a good candidate would have no trouble with Bernie whatsoever. Much like Trump, there's a group of supporters for Hillary that don't care about anything she does, she could shoot someone in the face on the white house lawn and they'd still show up to support her and say that person she murdered was a lie and a vast right wing conspiracy. Outside of that crazy group, her support is shaky at best.....just like Trump.
I think that Cruz will fare much worse than Trump in a general. I think Lindsey Graham feels the same way, which is why he's saying he'd rather lose with Cruz than win with Trump.
