Politics I am no longer convinced that Donald Trump will win the election

Started by Charlie Work, Jan 15, 2016, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. JMG
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    Jan 19, 2016
    There is no evidence to support that Trump is racist. I'm sorry you buy into that. Hilary is more concerned with personal gain. Plus she is controlled. Trump has more black and latino supports then Romney did.. so its not far fetched for him to suggest he will win their vote.
     
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  2. Howie
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    Are you saying because there are only two candidates that of course she is winning? Do you not realize that most Democrats (especially in Iowa) identify as Socialist versus Capitalist? She is in front because she has the DNC on her side, far more money, is a superior debater to most, and has enormous name recognition. Not to mention, many Americans think a woman President is far overdue.
     
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  3. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jan 19, 2016
    Uh... it's called 538 because there are 538 electoral votes in the US. The only thing that has do with Senate seats is that every state gets an electoral vote for every US Rep and Senator they have... 438 Reps + 100 Senators.
     
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  4. Howie
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    If you feel his comments on Mexicans and Muslims are not racist, then we have nothing to debate. To each their own.

    The life time politician is more concerned with personal gain than the billionaire that brags about being rich? Okay. Agree to disagree again.

    Trump definitely has more support in those communities than Romney. It's impossible to have less.
     
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  5. YiT
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    Jan 19, 2016
    I'm not sure whether most dems identifying as Socialist is true, that's like saying most republicans are facists. I think on both sides the majority is made up of the middle, but maybe I'm wrong. And I know she has all of that stuff, but it's easier to be the "front-runner" when there is only 1 other real candidate running against you compared to the 8 or so on the republican side. I imagine if someone like Cory Booker (young black senator from NJ) or the spanish mayor from texas (forget his name, spoke at the convention I think) were running against her or others it'd probably be different (look at jeb lol he was the front runner too before everyone else jumped in)
     
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    How can you be racist against a religion.. please tell me? What he said about Mexicans was taken out of context and you fell for it. He has employed thousands of Mexicans and taken great care of them. So your right there is nothing to debate since you clearly get your argument from a biased outlet.
     
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  7. JMG
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    Oh and btw.. Al Gore.. Joe Biden and maybe even John Kerry would smoke Hilary
     
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  8. Chad Warden
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    Jan 19, 2016
    It's true, the Mexicans comment was completely taken out of context. Chad remembers Trump saying that a lot of Mexicans who go over the border illegally are criminals.

    And interestingly enough, the ban all Muslims thing sorta happened before, Jimmy Carter did something similar during the hostage clusterfuck in the late 70's.
     
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    I agree in that once this Republican field shrinks, who knows what will come out of it. Everyone is curious to see who takes who's side. I assume it will be a Rubio vs Trump scenario (and so do the Vegas odds).

    If Booker was in this, WOW. He has a strong chance of seeing a VP bid, but I assume it will be Elizabeth Warren.
     
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    That's what me and my dad were talking about. If biden would've ran he'd pretty easily win the nomination with all the s--- going wrong for hillary.
     
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    i had an argument with my cousin and his friend yesterday about the election .... they support bernie sanders but if hillary wins the primary they would vote for any other republican even if the winner of republican primary is trump.
     
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  12. Chad Warden
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    Chad Warden As Ballin As Possible

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    Biden could be "unleashed" by the Democrats if Hillary really tanks, or gets indicted by the FBI.
     
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    She might not get the turn out that Obama did but I think we're forgetting the fact that Trump is really unpopular with general election votes. Trump has close to no cross over appeal. He's extremely unpopular with independent voters and democrats. The idea of a Trump presidency I think would be enough to get people out of their house to go vote.

    http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-really-unpopular-with-general-election-voters/

     
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  14. Nick
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    all this talk about trump not getting a minority vote could be completely wrong. in 2008 obama got some 97% of the black vote and the same in 2012... Politico predicted that trump could get nearly 15% of the black vote.. thats the highest for a republican since Reagan.
     
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    Hey... to anyone who was able to watch Sarah's endorsement speech all the way through (I couldn't handle the first minute), her 25 year old son beat the s--- out of a chick at her house this morning, he was drunk and armed. He's still in jail.

    Make America great again!
     
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    That's nice but the black vote isn't as important as the Hispanic vote. Also, is 15% enough? I honestly do not know...
     
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  17. JMG
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    I didn't know Sara Palin's son had anything to do with this election?
     
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  18. Nick
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    You are right, the Hispanic vote is bigger.. but Going from 3% of the vote to 15%.. thats a huge jump regardless
     
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  19. JMG
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    lol wow.. you clearly dont know anything so maybe you should just go.
     
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  20. Nick
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    You cant cite polls about the gen election yet... The obama romney battle went back and forth for weeks... One slip up with hillary and her emails or trump and his 'hateful' comments it could become really one sided.

    We should really be talking about the primaries more than anything.
     
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