(12-24-2017 01:37 AM)CG_Hawk06 Wrote: (12-23-2017 10:35 PM)CardFan1 Wrote: A good speech delivery is all he has. Nothing of substance unless You are a far left geek.
Obama won two elections. Zero qualifications for the job. Zero attempts to be a centrist.
Don't under estimate Booker. He has the one thing that will bring dormant voters to the booths if need be. Melatonin. He doesn't need experience. He doesn't need qualifications. He simply needs to read from a teleprompter and call the other guy/gal racist. The media will do the rest.
Uh, Donald Trump IS a racist. Not a complex racist, but a rather simple and obvious one. Lets review. Mexicans are rapists and can't be judges. Support for white supremacists. Haitians all have AIDS. The Central Park 5. His housing policies. Literally pardoning racism when he pardoned Arpaio. Birtherism...and on and on and on.
What happened in Alabama with African American turnout is pretty much guaranteed in 2020. That level of turnout by itself would have flipped the election in 2016 in Michigan and Wisconsin and would have made Pennsylvania too close to call. But that's not your only problem. The big scare is that Trump's racism is going to wake up Latino voters, causing flips in Texas, Arizona, and Florida. And making states like Georgia and North Carolina much more difficult. What I'm looking for in 2018 is Latino turnout. And then you have Trump's problems with educated white voters too.
BTW, Trump's disasterously bad handling of Puerto Rico is a huge, and unreported issue. 400,000 more Puerto Ricans will be voting in Florida in 2020.
And opposition to Trump is hardening. At some point, it won't matter if you can either find (or more likely make up) some scandal about the Democratic nominee....people are simply going to vote Dem to kick Trump out.
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By the way, African American voters will probably vote for a bland white Democrat in same numbers as they would for Cory Booker. They see the existential threat that Trumpism represents. Doug Jones is as white as a Mayonnaise festival in Maine, but he still got higher turnout and vote totals in Alabama than Obama did.
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Trumps tax plan isn't going to grow the economy in any way that really helps the working class. Its not how Wall Street operates. The tax cut to the middle class will be eaten up by health care increases and then some.
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So there's a lot of people, who didn't vote for Hillary that will vote for the Dem in 2020, period. Now where are your new voters. I suppose, there might be a few Johnson voters who might vote for you, or some Mormon voters in Utah, but that's about it. And that assumes, incorrectly, that Trump hasn't lost some of the people that voted for him. He has.