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I keep saying "Americans can't be that fucking stupid" (Original Post) edhopper Jul 2016 OP
Don the Con will lose big n/t malaise Jul 2016 #1
I think so too edhopper Jul 2016 #2
Trump on Me Depressed ChairmanAgnostic Jul 2016 #3
They shut down a metal stamping plant opened in the 50s here in the Ohio valley doc03 Jul 2016 #6
The question is what kind of bag? ChairmanAgnostic Jul 2016 #8
He was appointed by the SCOTUS the first time and doc03 Jul 2016 #4
this is true edhopper Jul 2016 #5
CBS Sunday Morning just had a post RNC piece that confirms the ignorance of people liberal N proud Jul 2016 #7
Team politics. My team always good, even if they haven't won a championship in a century. HereSince1628 Jul 2016 #9
Well said. CanSocDem Jul 2016 #13
I hope mrsv Jul 2016 #10
Just keep watching the polls edhopper Jul 2016 #14
Not all white males are stupid Motley13 Jul 2016 #15
True edhopper Jul 2016 #16
I think it will be a lot closer than anybody thinks hollowdweller Jul 2016 #11
People that have abandoned science, facts and reason to believe stories . . . HughBeaumont Jul 2016 #12
A huge chunk of the population couldn't name the VP for a million dollar prize. Vinca Jul 2016 #17
You mean Joe Gore, or Al Biden? ChairmanAgnostic Jul 2016 #18
I'm an older person. All I can remember is Spiro Ford. Vinca Jul 2016 #19
And remember this too: milestogo Jul 2016 #20
don't ask. hobbit709 Jul 2016 #21
3 words: President Donald Trump Initech Jul 2016 #22
I'd rather drink arsenic . Rustyeye77 Jul 2016 #23
Absolutely! kentuck Jul 2016 #24

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
3. Trump on Me Depressed
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:12 AM
Jul 2016

"If Carrier fires every worker in Indiana, hires folks in Mexico, they will pay the price - 25-30% tax on every air conditioner."

I now think he will be our next president. That populist message will resound with and excite the former middle class that has seen its economic safety disappear, while the democrats continue to bow and pander to Wall and big business.

Hillary better kick start her campaign. Cuz what she is doing ain't working.

Look, I absolutely mistrust teh Donald, but he just stole Sunday morning.

doc03

(35,361 posts)
6. They shut down a metal stamping plant opened in the 50s here in the Ohio valley
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:22 AM
Jul 2016

this week, production going to Mexico. AEP announced they are shutting down another power plant blaming
EPA. The coal mining industry is on life support. I just heard today another factory in the valley that processes steel is shutting down.
Don't worry we have this in the bag.

liberal N proud

(60,339 posts)
7. CBS Sunday Morning just had a post RNC piece that confirms the ignorance of people
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:25 AM
Jul 2016

Asked one delegates why there was no videos of the cheering people as the towers fell and the moron simply responded with that was a different time.

Another was asked if it bothered them that Trump had 3 wives, the response was of course but we know what Hillary will be like and we don’t with Trump so we will go with that.

I lost it!

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
9. Team politics. My team always good, even if they haven't won a championship in a century.
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:38 AM
Jul 2016

The past 25 years have increasingly depended upon such rhetoric about us good them bad.

The past 48 hours have delivered more talk about a dem's (Kaine's) goodness than the previous 18 months.

The message most pushed by the dems has been to assert the opponent (Trump) is the worlds worst politician.

Issueless campagning works on the fans of both teams.

 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
13. Well said.
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 11:09 AM
Jul 2016


I have noticed that one does not even need an understanding of party values to proclaim their support. Jumping on a partisan bandwagon is enough, and easier than formulating an actual political philosophy.



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mrsv

(209 posts)
10. I hope
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:59 AM
Jul 2016

You guys are right...and Trump loses big time. I come to DU for reassurance in that in this election I'm not simply being guided by my own political preference but common sense.

edhopper

(33,604 posts)
14. Just keep watching the polls
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 11:12 AM
Jul 2016

especially in battleground States like FL, VA, OH and PA which Trump has to all win.
Also demographics, Trump cannot win with only the White Male vote.

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
15. Not all white males are stupid
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 11:31 AM
Jul 2016

like duck dynasty, Ted Nugent, David Duke, Chachi

To be poorly educated is not the same as stupid!


edhopper

(33,604 posts)
16. True
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 11:42 AM
Jul 2016

but he will likely win the white male vote.

Just as Bush, McCain and Romney did.

But that vote doesn't win elections.

And I have heard the ones who support him, whatever their education, they're willfully stupid.

 

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)
11. I think it will be a lot closer than anybody thinks
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 11:04 AM
Jul 2016

Of course I live in the Rustbelt so maybe my view is skewed.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
12. People that have abandoned science, facts and reason to believe stories . . .
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 11:06 AM
Jul 2016

. . . yeah, those fuckers scare me the most.

Unfortunately for the GOP, there aren't enough of those around as there was in 2000.

kentuck

(111,107 posts)
24. Absolutely!
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 05:42 PM
Jul 2016

I am scared to death of the American voters. Mostly because they are not informed or "mis-informed" about the candidates.

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