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General Election Thread: Two Weeks Out

DeacWatcher said:
Very red states (ie. TX, MS, AL, OK, AR, LA, KY, TN & plains states) will continue to stay pretty red through whatever means necessary. Latinos have been out west for so long they are pretty much accepted, but not in states above.
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TN's not even remotely a swing state, but both GOP Senators Alexander and Corker (allegedly on Trump's VP short list) shit on Trump today. Get why blue or purple state 'Pubs would steer clear of Trump, but not those two guys. Texas is the only red mega state where Trump can pad his national popular vote total. Won't offset getting smoked in the popular vote in CA, NY, and IL.

No fan of W's, but one of the wisest things he did after 9/11 was make it explicitly clear that America was not at war with Islam (a global religion of ~1.5B). If ISIS skims off even 1% thanks to Trump's overheated rhetoric, we're screwed.
 
If Trump keeps this up, his list for VP may only be Steve "Melon Calves" King, Chris Christie, Sarah Palin and Jeff Sessions.
 
RJKarl said:
If Trump keeps this up, his list for VP may only be Steve "Melon Calves" King, Chris Christie, Sarah Palin and Jeff Sessions.
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Don't forget David Duke and Omarosa (and Rodman, of course, to maintain that Kim Jong Un support)
 
JManslow said:
Apparently the rally in GSO was a shit show


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McCrory attended a private GOP fundraiser with Trump and Reince, but weaseled out of a public appearance at his rally. Not clear if Burr and Tillis attended/appeared at any Trump events in NC.
 
Shooshmoo said:
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-14/bloomberg-politics-national-poll-june-2016

A new Bloomberg Politics national poll shows Clinton leading Trump 49 percent to 37 percent among likely voters in November's election, with 55 percent of those polled saying they could never vote for the real-estate developer and TV personality.
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With the usual caveat that polls this early, particularly national polls, should be taken with a truckload of salt, Bloomberg released a new survey on Tuesday, and it is full of bad news for Donald Trump.


To start with, Trump had pulled relatively even with Clinton when he was the Republicans' presumptive nominee, and she had not yet secured the Democratic nomination. Now, as predicted, that trend is reversing itself. Bloomberg has Clinton up by 12 points (49% to 37%) over Trump. The really bad news, however, is in the details. First, 9% of respondents said they were planning to vote for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. Nearly all of that will come from Trump's total, and if even half of those 9% really mean it, he's in big trouble in light red/purple states. Even worse for The Donald, 55% of respondents said they would not vote for him under any circumstances. There is essentially no way to win the presidency with 45% of the vote, no matter how it's divided up. (Well, unless you're Abraham Lincoln in 1860.)
 
FuckmouthedRube said:
McCrory attended a private GOP fundraiser with Trump and Reince, but weaseled out of a public appearance at his rally. Not clear if Burr and Tillis attended/appeared at any Trump events in NC.
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This may be the consistent strategy for down-ticket GOP candidates. Embrace Trump privately and accept is money; create distance from him publicly.
 
FuckmouthedRube said:
No fan of W's, but one of the wisest things he did after 9/11 was make it explicitly clear that America was not at war with Islam (a global religion of ~1.5B). If ISIS skims off even 1% thanks to Trump's overheated rhetoric, we're screwed.
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Recent polling indicates that a majority of Republicans back Trump's proposed Muslim ban (and 45% of independents). Trump's not coming from nowhere on this - he's fearmongering and exploiting the basest instincts of a large swath of Americans.
 
CantStandYa said:
Recent polling indicates that a majority of Republicans back Trump's proposed Muslim ban (and 45% of independents). Trump's not coming from nowhere on this - he's fearmongering and exploiting the basest instincts of a large swath of Americans.
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Yeah, that's how he's getting the majority of his vote.

Straw men and fear-mongering based on "facts".

Lots of Pubs who have shared these sentiments for years. No gays, no blacks, no colored people period. He's just tapping into that.

Anybody that has spent time in rural NC, Indiana, or *insert southern/midwestern state here* knows that this is more alive and real than most think.
 
Yep. The only difference is that mainstream Pubs have been "PC" about their feelings and Trump is blazing a path for Pubs to speak out.
 
This is a good piece from Goldberg on the Obama "Islamic terrorism" issue/nonissue. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/obama-radical-islam/487079/

Donald Trump, I believe, is not capable of making the sort of analysis Obama has made about the splits within Islam. Nor has refuted Obama’s analysis in a cogent fashion. But this is not Trump’s main sin; his main sin is to refuse to listen to experts on counterterrorism, including experts in the U.S. military and intelligence community, who argue that he is helping ISIS by demonizing Muslims.
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Privately, Obama expresses the deepest loathing for ISIS and other radical Islamist groups. ISIS, he has noted, stands for — quite literally — everything he opposes. Nevertheless, his approach to the challenge of Islamist terrorism is sometimes emotionally unsatisfying; it is sometimes insufficient to the challenge; and he himself is sometimes too fatalistic about the possibility of change in the Middle East.

Donald Trump’s approach, on the other hand, is simply catastrophic.
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CantStandYa said:
This may be the consistent strategy for down-ticket GOP candidates. Embrace Trump privately and accept is money; create distance from him publicly.
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That's definitely the strategy for anyone on the 2016 ballot in blue or purple states. Kasich and Martinez may never even run again, but they're keeping their distance. Makes sense for 'Pubs in the Southwest, but brutal from a popular Midwest swing state Governor. The response from the TN Senators is far more telling-neither are on the 2016 ballot, but are still keeping their distance.
 
Deacon923 said:
This is a good piece from Goldberg on the Obama "Islamic terrorism" issue/nonissue. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/obama-radical-islam/487079/
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I'm glad 923 is here to post all of the Atlantic pieces we need to read.;) (It is a good column.)
 
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