How Donald Trump could win - and why

...and here is a reason why Trump will not win...

"Republican donor Meg Whitman has endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton, saying Mr Trump's "demagoguery" had undermined the national fabric.
Senior party activist Jan Halper-Hayes told the BBC she thought Mr Trump was "psychologically unbalanced".
In the latest controversy, Mr Trump has refused to support two senior figures in his own party."

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...and here is a reason why Trump will not win...

"Republican donor Meg Whitman has endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton, saying Mr Trump's "demagoguery" had undermined the national fabric.
Senior party activist Jan Halper-Hayes told the BBC she thought Mr Trump was "psychologically unbalanced".
In the latest controversy, Mr Trump has refused to support two senior figures in his own party."

Cheers

...and here is a reason why Trump will not win...

"Republican donor Meg Whitman has endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton, saying Mr Trump's "demagoguery" had undermined the national fabric.
Senior party activist Jan Halper-Hayes told the BBC she thought Mr Trump was "psychologically unbalanced".
In the latest controversy, Mr Trump has refused to support two senior figures in his own party."

Cheers

...and here is a reason why Trump will not win...

"Republican donor Meg Whitman has endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton, saying Mr Trump's "demagoguery" had undermined the national fabric.
Senior party activist Jan Halper-Hayes told the BBC she thought Mr Trump was "psychologically unbalanced".
In the latest controversy, Mr Trump has refused to support two senior figures in his own party."

Cheers

Here's the thing...or at least one thing.

Donald Trump has spent his life, up until now, as a business man (and building a personal brand...that feeds back into that business success). Part of that process was to "counter-punch" hard, as he likes to say, whenever anybody took him to task - be that in a business deal, disparaging him personally, or whatever.

Worked for him in business...worked for him in the Primaries. This over-the-top belligerence, in all directions at all comers, was a winning strategy.

Now the dawn has broken on the General Election, where the rules are different...mainly because the MSM was quite happy to let him bash away at fellow Republicans during the Primaries - but now he is one-on-one with Hillary Clinton and they are going to pound him on everything possible (and try to ignore every stumble that she, Obama and the Democrats make).

So guess what? Trump is going to very quickly figure out that he needs to focus like a laser beam on Clinton and Obama, and ignore all of the other gnats who are buzzing around, in order to win.

Once he does that, and gets after (1) the corruption, lies and incompetence that is Hillary (2) the utterly failed economic, social and foreign polices of the Obama/Clinton era and (3) his plans to turn the Country around...

Hillary is going to start to drop in the polls, and Trump will begin to rise again.

We may look back on this post-convention bump that Hillary got (which put her in the lead against Trump), as the beginning of the end for her Presidential aspirations.

The sleeping dog, I think, has been awoken.

a reply to: ladyinwaiting

Here, let me tell you: The slightest hint of mental illness, and the country FREAKED OUT.

Yes please. Let's get into contest between these two over which one is the most defective. The media would never let it be a fair fight, but there's plenty of crazy to go around.

a reply to: JaMeDoIt

A quintuple post must be some kind of record around here.

a reply to: bbarkow
Not even close.

SkunkApe had like 20 PAGES one time.

Tried finding it but it doesn't go back far enough.

5 or 6 people went through and starred every post. It was classic.

originally posted by: Konduit
Adam Carolla recently had a talk on his podcast about this, and pretty much nailed it.

Haha, this is great! At first I though this is ok but nothing spectacular but second part is really good, he totally nailed it! So for those impatient, skip to second half, you won't regret it.

originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: alomaha

The political centre from which Clinton seeks to govern has been contracting for eight years. Recession, bailouts, declining living standards and a ruined infrastructure have destroyed the old "free market" governing consensus.

Same thing happened at the end of the German and Japanese empires during WWII. Thing is, as long as the narrative is controlled in the main stream media, there will be no effective change possible. Everyone remains deluded, safe in their awareness comfort zone, to the last.

Under the state propaganda demagogue Goebbels, control of the dissemination of information reaching the average German was total. They remained optimistic, the foreign wars being waged were a long ways away, that things would turn around, new weapons would secure the final victory, aways the final victory.

Although there are some similarities things are not the same. Access to information was much more limited back than ( they didn't have internet) and their economies were booming.

originally posted by: mobiusmale
Here's the thing...or at least one thing.


So guess what? Trump is going to very quickly figure out that he needs to focus like a laser beam on Clinton and Obama, and ignore all of the other gnats who are buzzing around, in order to win.

Are you sure about that? I am not sure that he can stay calm when he is provoked, as clearly seen in Khan case. I am not sure he can control his own ego. I guess we'll see pretty soon...

Let's keep this simple...Trump will win because Hillary will not be on the November 8th ballot. The potential reasons are too many to list, but SOMETHING will happen.

a reply to: carewemust

Is that just your opinion or do you have some aditional information? To tell you the truth I was almost certain that she would not be nominated because it borders with lunacy. It seems like Democrats want to lose this election. There is already so much baggage with her and everybody knows that wikileaks or whoever is going to release something that will ensure that she will lose...

a reply to: alomaha

Although there are some similarities things are not the same. Access to information was much more limited back than

Excerpts from Goebbels speech about the importance of radio to influence the masses. Radio was new back then, the German government made it popular and cheap radio sets readily available. They made it popular the same way newspapers were popular then, too. They presented music, series programs, weather , news events and (specifically) the daily propaganda in between.

The radio will be for the twentieth century what the press was for the nineteenth century.

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio and the airplane. It is no exaggeration to say that the German revolution, at least in the form it took, would have been impossible without the airplane and the radio.

A government that has determined to bring a nation together so that it is once more a center of power in the scales of great world events has not only the right, but the duty, to subordinate all aspects of the nation to its goals, or at least ensure that they are supportive. That is also true for the radio. The more significant something is in influencing the will of the broad masses, the greater its responsibility to the future of the nation.

We do not intend to use the radio only for our partisan purposes. We want room for entertainment, popular arts, games, jokes, and music. But everything should have a relationship to our day. Everything should include the theme of our great reconstructive work, or at least not stand in its way. Above all it is necessary to clearly centralize all radio activities...

Link to Goebbels speech about radio

Same as today. Centralized control of all information sources, movies, tv, newspapers, radio and ... social media.

a reply to: JaMeDoIt

"Republican donor Meg Whitman has endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton, saying Mr Trump's "demagoguery" had undermined the national fabric.

The status quo which Hillary endorses and represents is the problem. How you spin that to blame Trump for all that stuff he wasn't even a part of is precious.

Trump will rebuild America one major City per State every 5 years ....he will pay people to rip Chicago down to the ground and then they will pay him the money they earn to buy houses and businesses in the NEWLY BUILT RELOCATED cities which will be beautifully built for long term sustainability.

America will be re-built from a solid concrete internal economic landscape with a template for long term stability being followed......no more building under-spec and shoddy things just so they have to be re-built in 75 years...new technology means buildings and infrastructures which will last hundreds of years.
A new America has to follow Trumps lead and KICK OUT OLDE MONEY FROM ISREAL AND EUROPE and BUILD SOME HOMEGROWN FISCAL POWEHOUSES........The Donald will REBUILD .

This is why he will win....because he is businessman WHO WINS A LOT.... plain and simple .....and people are broke and desperate and have been for 3 terms now.

Save some that stuff you are smoking...you will need it when they rebuild Chicago...really where did you get that crap from?
Cheers
a reply to: one4all

originally posted by: alomaha
a reply to: carewemust

Is that just your opinion or do you have some aditional information? To tell you the truth I was almost certain that she would not be nominated because it borders with lunacy. It seems like Democrats want to lose this election. There is already so much baggage with her and everybody knows that wikileaks or whoever is going to release something that will ensure that she will lose...

Thanks for asking, Alomaha! Here is something just released by the Trump Campaign, 3 hours ago.

Thirty Seconds of Hell...for Hillary!:www.donaldjtrump.com...

The above is just one of MANY MANY things that will come together in time to STOP HILLARY's run for President. Donald Trump won't do this, but he could just sit back and watch Hillary spiral downward and crash.

originally posted by: JaMeDoIt
Save some that stuff you are smoking...you will need it when they rebuild Chicago...really where did you get that crap from?
Cheers
a reply to: one4all

Lol...The Donald will have the Mexicans legally buying California weed and they will have to pay to come through the Fence to get to it instead of having America bled dry and torn apart by Mexican and Global Drug Cartels.....lol.

Geographical relocation is the only viable option for rebuilding America......she must shed her old cacoon before she can grow again and morph forward again.

Innovation and cutting edge technology combined with a fair and equitable domestic markeplace is what America was built on and it is what she will be REBUILT ON.

originally posted by: ladyinwaiting

originally posted by: bbarkow
a reply to: alomaha

Here is the New York Times on July 26, 1988: Dukakis Lead Widens, According to New Poll

Here's the source so we can all calm down for a minute. Remembering the Dukakis 17 point lead over Bush

Do you know the reason Dukakis then plummeted at lightspeed?

Here, let me tell you: The slightest hint of mental illness, and the country FREAKED OUT.

Hate to tell you, but yo boy will likely go the same route.

As opposed to a week long concussion recovery, and if she keeps having those faux seizures...