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« on: March 01, 2016, 01:03:40 PM »

I think this article is a good read that provides a potential glimpse into the upcoming GE campaign:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-general-election.html

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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2016, 01:43:05 PM »

I think the Secretary has learned her lesson not to be too overconfident, after losing NH.
No, the Democrats shouldn't expect to win without giving it their best. We all remember 2000, when beating someone like Bush should have been easy. 1964 would be nice, but more than likely it won't be that much of a landslide, so Clinton should be very very careful.
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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2016, 01:43:57 PM »

TRUMP will defeat her in the fall, so yes he's formidable.
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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2016, 01:52:15 PM »

Yep she should be very careful that the scale of her defeat isn't as bad as Dukakis' s 1988 loss😊
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2016, 01:59:33 PM »

Yep she should be very careful that the scale of her defeat isn't as bad as Dukakis' s 1988 loss😊

Get on board THE TRUMP TRAIN. I was wrong about Trump, after actually doing the research on him, he should have been my 2nd choice after all.
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2016, 02:00:36 PM »

I'm sure the battle over Nebraska's 1st congressional district is making Hillary quake in her boots, but I think she'll take it in the end.
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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2016, 02:02:44 PM »

The silent majority will no longer stand by as frauds like the Clintons and Bushes take our country away!
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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2016, 02:04:31 PM »

Get on board THE TRUMP TRAIN. I was wrong about Trump, after actually doing the research on him, he should have been my 2nd choice after all.

I knew you'd come around, bro. Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2016, 03:12:11 PM »

Yep she should be very careful that the scale of her defeat isn't as bad as Dukakis' s 1988 loss😊

Haven't you been wrong about literally everything so far? Perhaps you should take the hint.
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« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2016, 03:14:17 PM »

Yep she should be very careful that the scale of her defeat isn't as bad as Dukakis' s 1988 loss😊

Get on board THE TRUMP TRAIN. I was wrong about Trump, after actually doing the research on him, he should have been my 2nd choice after all.

oh god it's like an infectious disease at this point
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« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2016, 03:22:26 PM »

Yep she should be very careful that the scale of her defeat isn't as bad as Dukakis' s 1988 loss😊

Get on board THE TRUMP TRAIN. I was wrong about Trump, after actually doing the research on him, he should have been my 2nd choice after all.

oh god it's like an infectious disease at this point

Don't call it a disease. TRUMP will save America. The real diseases are the twin Democratic Party monsters, and Cruz the Canuck and Rubio the Robot.
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« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2016, 03:53:18 PM »

Americans want a principled man of the people that can get stuff done so they'll select a flip flopping billionaire...
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« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2016, 03:59:19 PM »

He's very formidable. I would never underestimate him in the general. He's beating politicians at their own game, and it's not even close.
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« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2016, 04:15:41 PM »

The silent majority will no longer stand by as frauds like the Clintons and Bushes take our country away!

Exactly! Why vote for another Goldman Sachs' lackey, when you can vote for a bigoted, cowardly, bullying billionaire instead?
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« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2016, 06:41:14 PM »

Yep she should be very careful that the scale of her defeat isn't as bad as Dukakis' s 1988 loss😊

Get on board THE TRUMP TRAIN. I was wrong about Trump, after actually doing the research on him, he should have been my 2nd choice after all.

LibRep, I love you! We all love you!
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« Reply #15 on: March 01, 2016, 07:17:55 PM »

He's very formidable. I would never underestimate him in the general. He's beating politicians at their own game, and it's not even close.

This.

Why is it shocking that Trump would be a "formidable opponent"?  He's been the frontrunner from the beginning; the one constant in the GOP race has been Trump's lead.  He has support from all types of Republicans, and he has support of the most VIBRANT GOP voters at this point.  The vibrant activists that were supposed to propel Cruz have defected in large numbers to Trump.  Indeed, a number of "Establishment Republicans" have defected to Trump to stop Cruz.

Stopping Trump from being nominated will probably be impossible after tonight without resorting to heavy-handed tactics that would not go over well with the voters that support Trump.  And the GOP NEEDS these voters to win, and to elect Senators to boot.  How will it play if they manipulate to gain a brokered convention, then force an "airlifted" candidate on the GOP in a brokered convention?  How will Trump voters feel about getting behind a ticket of John Thune and Nikki Haley? 

Stopping Trump in the general will require shoring up the Democratic base.  Trump is a Map Expander; he's not likely to finish in the Blue/Red box we've been in for so long.  I think that this year, the electorate will swing strongly, one way or the other.  I also think that Trump, while having the capacity to do himself in, has the capacity to rally folks for a mini-landslide.
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« Reply #16 on: March 01, 2016, 07:41:28 PM »

This is a good development if true.
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« Reply #17 on: March 01, 2016, 08:25:06 PM »

Despite it's impressive length, it's a nimble navigator, and some can be highly venomous. As quick as lightning, just like the tarantula it's killing, the centipede has two curved hollow fangs which inject paralyzing venom. Even tarantulas aren't immune from an ambush.

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