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Trump is not articulate, he's overbearing...he can't command an audience.....he is not presidential.
I Knew that fact....?But Luved his Strength. But the Educated crowd, the snobs, will never elect a tough guy, who is nothing but s a Street fighter.
Trump is clearly articulate, and brilliant. There is a level of sophistication required to comprehend the verbiage of straight talk intellectualism. Most people can't comprehend it, to be fair to you.
Being a great orator is not about the wordy, politically correct, verbose word salad you learn of in Freshman English.
Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt, Lincoln, were all very plain-spoken.
Oh--I'm loving this. Trump initially makes a stupid comment about immigrants without distinguishing between 'legal' and 'illegal'. Then his followers all claim he meant 'illegal' and everyone knew that he meant that, even though they didn't.
There is always an excuse or re-interpretation of what the guy says.
He loses the election all the polls claimed he would win--Iowa. Then New Hampshire. Then South Carolina. He's unstoppable!
So he loses Iowa, and now we hear that he expected to lose. Really? Uh--No he did not.
This is serious cult-like behavior.
Now Cruz (and Rubio, for some reason I don't quite understand) is making an unbelievably dramatic over-the-top victory speech.
People are actually yelling Hallelujah at the Cruz speech!
Yes--it is going to a much more entertaining election than I ever could have imagined.
You make a great point.
For literally MONTHS, we've been hearing about Trump's YUGE win that would take place in Iowa (some threads were even created today). Now we have Trump defenders saying "we never expected him to win". Just as I predicted earlier, Trump fans will blame his loss on someone else.
"It's tough to say. You could say he's just a weaker version of Santorum with Trump winning some of those western counties. I think we'd need to see a map shaded by Santorum's share and Cruz's share (excluding the rest of them) to see how similar/different they are."
Weaker than Santorum? He won the state by 6000 votes. No, the surprise is that Trump is remarkably strong among rural voters and evangelicals, and Cruz's appeal isn't limited to those groups. Oh, and Marco Rubio. I see a lot of third-place finishes in his future ...
You're looking at this race as if all else will stay equal. After tonight, it's clear that Cruz and Rubio have momentum that could seriously whittle down Trump's lead in New Hampshire.
Or they've peaked, no one knows for sure..
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