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Old 02-11-2016, 10:55 AM
 
Location: On a Long Island in NY
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Originally Posted by WaldoKitty View Post
Beyond most of this being nonsense, none of this happened in the New Hampshire primary. It's a Blue state.

What did happen is that 10s of 1000s of former Democrats decided to re-register as Republicans.

Very bad for the Democrat's prospects.


I suspect the same thing happened in Iowa, but the Democrats won't release the vote totals. They are scared of what that shows.
You are aware that in many states with open primaries the parties will mobilize their voters to vote for the other party's most extreme candidate to help them win the election right? Yeah, they registered as Republicans alright ... to vote for the most crazies GOP candidate, Trump. THEY WANT TO RUN AGAINST HIM! Why can't you grasp this? Trump is their dream candidate. Both Sanders and Hillary would annihilate him in a general election.

Seriously, I can't wait to see what you have to say late in the evening on November 8th 2016 when the results come out and Trump's loss is on par with Goldwater in 1964.

 
Old 02-11-2016, 11:03 AM
 
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You are aware that in many states with open primaries the parties will mobilize their voters to vote for the other party's most extreme candidate to help them win the election right? Yeah, they registered as Republicans alright ... to vote for the most crazies GOP candidate, Trump. THEY WANT TO RUN AGAINST HIM! Why can't you grasp this? Trump is their dream candidate. Both Sanders and Hillary would annihilate him in a general election.

Seriously, I can't wait to see what you have to say late in the evening on November 8th 2016 when the results come out and Trump's loss is on par with Goldwater in 1964.

How Silly. Do honestly think that Bernie Sanders & Hillary Clinton would agree to a plan to shift 10s of 1000s of voters over to the GOP? They were both spending millions for every vote they could get.

As far as being serious you are demonstrating that you aren't.
 
Old 02-11-2016, 11:55 AM
 
Location: Austin
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Trump has a huge unfavorable rating among voters, something like 58%. He would not win the presidential election because the majority of Americans won't vote for him, me included.

We have to put a candidate up for nomination that is Normal. If we do, we can beat Hillary. Anyone but Trump could beat Hillary.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...ection-voters/
 
Old 02-11-2016, 12:05 PM
 
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
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Trump has a huge unfavorable rating among voters, something like 58%. He would not win the presidential election because the majority of Americans won't vote for him, me included.

We have to put a candidate up for nomination that is Normal. If we do, we can beat Hillary. Anyone but Trump could beat Hillary.

Donald Trump Is Really Unpopular With General Election Voters | FiveThirtyEight
Anyone "normal" was a sure bet to defeat Obama 4 years ago.

How'd that work out?

Agreed Trump probably can't win, but either can the moderates Bush, Kacish or Rubio. They'll be another Romney.

What do you say we actually do something different for a change and nominate a conservative?

We've tried moderates. They fail.

Last time we nominated a true conservative, was 1980 and that worked out pretty well.
 
Old 02-11-2016, 12:07 PM
 
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Originally Posted by WIHS2006 View Post
You are aware that in many states with open primaries the parties will mobilize their voters to vote for the other party's most extreme candidate to help them win the election right? Yeah, they registered as Republicans alright ... to vote for the most crazies GOP candidate, Trump. THEY WANT TO RUN AGAINST HIM! Why can't you grasp this? Trump is their dream candidate. Both Sanders and Hillary would annihilate him in a general election.

Seriously, I can't wait to see what you have to say late in the evening on November 8th 2016 when the results come out and Trump's loss is on par with Goldwater in 1964.

I understand the analogy, but Trump is no Goldwater.

How will Trump explain this video in the general election if he faces Hillary?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvrXrbQIDi0
 
Old 02-11-2016, 12:07 PM
 
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Anyone "normal" was a sure bet to defeat Obama 4 years ago.

How'd that work out?
Nope. There were plenty, including myself that said the GOP would lose if they nominated Romney.

I voted 3rd party because I refused to vote for either Obama or Romney.

This won't happen with Trump.
 
Old 02-11-2016, 12:15 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Originally Posted by capitalcityguy View Post
Anyone "normal" was a sure bet to defeat Obama 4 years ago.

How'd that work out?

Agreed Trump probably can't win, but either can the moderates Bush, Kacish or Rubio. They'll be another Romney.

What do you say we actually do something different for a change and nominate a conservative?

We've tried moderates. They fail.

Last time we nominated a true conservative, was 1980 and that worked out pretty well.

What don't you understand about Trump's 58% unfavorable rating among voters?

Trump presents no specifics....NONE...for his presidency other than platitudes.
Trump bullies, name calling and face making like a schoolyard child, those who disagree with him or criticize him.
Trump proclaims he's "awesome" in every way and that rhetoric is good enough for you?
Trump has been divorced twice, once from a former mistress he impregnated while still married to his first wife.

Conservative? Evangelical? Moral? Trump? In a pig's eye.

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Old 02-11-2016, 12:19 PM
 
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
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What don't you understand about Trump's 58% unfavorable rating among voters?
Did you mean this for me? I said I didn't think he could win.
 
Old 02-11-2016, 12:24 PM
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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Trump is divine punishment on the sins of the Republican Party:

Or should we begin to root for Donald Trump — not as a candidate actually to champion, now or in the fall, but as an agent of divine retribution for a corrupt and stumbling party, a pillaging-and-torching Babylonian invasion of which it must be said: The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/op...ican-mess.html
 
Old 02-11-2016, 12:27 PM
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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There are some (Democrat-leaning) who can't stand Hillary Clinton and might sit out the election rather than bother vote for her, but the threat of a Trump candidacy will convince them to go vote.
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