(08-26-2016 08:51 AM)VA49er Wrote: (08-26-2016 08:43 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: (08-26-2016 08:00 AM)VA49er Wrote: lol I guess "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" isn't working so well anymore so she has to come up with some other crazy crap to assuage her sheep.
LOL. Its not that vast. That's why HRC is winning.
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Trump's handlers of the week have put him on ice so they can try to make the story about the CF. HRC's folks are like 'Okay if DJT isn't going to say something outrageous every 2 days, then we will just recycle some of his greatest hits to remind people why they need to vote for HRC'
In sailing, there's a concept called 'covering'. Basically, what that means is that the boat in front always positions his/her boat so that their sail blocks the wind from the boat trying to catch up. Makes it much harder for the boat trying to catch up to do so. And basically boats will do this even if they are significantly ahead. That's all that's going on here. Covering. Its why HRC continues to pour resources into PA and VA too.
DJT tries to lighten his positioning on racial minorites? HRC will just drag some stuff up to make sure that DJT has a hard time doing so. DJT wants to talk about CF? HRC will just bring up Trump U. Assaunge wants to dump some (illegally obtained or false) intel? HRC will just point out the DJT is a Putin stooge.
Trump is an idiot but Hillary would be winning no matter the candidate given her blind loyalist following that care nothing about her dishonesty. It would still be party over country for her followers.
Y'all's blocking of Merrick Garland was really stupid. You provide a strong case for anyone who doesn't like HRC to vote for her anyway. You'll probably get Vanita Gupta (a pure liberal who is 40 years old)
HRC isn't even making a case for her campaign anymore - just making a case against Trump. But then again, Trump has no plans for anything other than defaulting on the national debt, giving himself a billion dollar tax break, subrogating our foreign policy to Russia, and building some stupid wall that won't stop anything.
And its not just her base.
Where can DJT expand his base?
White Women - a few are in play...but with DJT's boorish comments and history, its going to be hard for him to cut into that. Also, HRC is female (duh) and is theorhetically running an aspirational campaign towards female empowerment. Aggressive males don't do well with this group. And DJT has been running an aggressively male campaign.
Hispanics - Awful, awful, awful. Not only did DJT start the campaign off on a racist foot, he then did the Curiel thing too. What a nightmare. He then got into a fight with Univision.
African Americans - Its not just Trump's comments, but his supporters that turn African Americans off. Those DJT rallies are friggin' disasters for DJT with this group
Jews - Again those rallies. And the ties to the alt-Right and Putin. Group blame, even directed at Muslims is a problem too. I think even the Mormons recognize the problem that DJT's anti-Muslim rhetoric portends for them.
LGBT - Horrendous response to Orlando. Hangs out with horrendous anti-LGBT advocates like Tony Perkins and Mat Staver. Ties to Putin are a big red flag. His backers in the community include two foreign born LGBT persons widely loathed by the mainstream LGBT community. And the group blame thing is problematic too.
College educated whites - The whole fifth grade English level of speech doesn't look Presidential to many people. He's seen as a boor and a bully. And those rallies.. And the absence of any real policy pronouncements is a problem too.
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DJT has a path to victory. But attacking HRC isn't going to do anything. He needs to figure out how to resolve the concerns that the aforementioned groups have with him. That's what DJT still hasn't figured out. He has to clean his own image up first before anyone will listen to him about HRC. Just hiding isn't going to rehabilitate DJT. He's going to have to convince people to change their views of him.