cville deac
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Oh I agree that at this point it's going to be incredibly hard for him to convince someone who's going to vote for her now to end up voting for him. He will still have plenty of material to use against her though.
I'm not so sure. We're largely a gullible populace. He'll pick off some disaffected Bernie voters like the bobs. And my sister, who is the only other registered Dem in my family, is voting for him because she thinks Hillary won't be able to get anything done and that he will (although she does wish he'd tone down the rhetoric). He'll get regular Pubs at the end of the day after some wailing and gnashing of teeth because they hate the Clintons. I think he'll still get most of what Romney got, maybe minus AZ, but with picking off a swing state or 2. But he's really boxed himself in with only appealing to white men in large numbers. I get not appealing to African-Americans, which the rest of the Pub party doesn't do either. And I get to an extent the wild comments about Latinos and Muslims because that feeds into his anti-immigrant theme. But I don't get the battles with Megyn Kelly and the other sexist comments. If he's going to write off the African-American, Latino and Asian voting blocs, he'll need a solid majority of white women in order to win the EC, but he's done just about everything he can to urinate on them as well. That's the thing I don't get.
Despite that, I just still have a sneaking suspicion that this will be fairly close in the Fall - at least as close as Romney or McCain and certainly closer and more interesting than if Lyin' Ted were the Pub nominee.