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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 05:45 AM Aug 2016

GOP insiders: Trump can't win

'Trump is underperforming so comprehensively...it would take video evidence of a smiling Hillary drowning a litter of puppies while terrorists surrounded her with chants of ‘Death to America,’' said an Iowa Republican.

By STEVEN SHEPARD 08/12/16 05:03 AM EDT

Republican insiders are more convinced than Democrats that Donald Trump is so far behind Hillary Clinton that he can't win in November.

Roughly half of Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus — activists, strategists and operatives in 11 swing states — believe that Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes is basically shut off after another week in which the GOP nominee appears to have ceded ground in national and most battleground state polls.

Democrats, however, aren’t breaking out the champagne just yet. Seventy-two percent of Democratic insiders said despite Clinton’s clear advantage at this stage of the race, the presidential election isn’t effectively over.

Democrats cited the unpredictability of the 2016 campaign, along with some of Clinton’s own weaknesses, for their bridled optimism. It’s a message that fits neatly with what party leaders are saying publicly and behind closed doors: Don’t get too cocky, even with Clinton well ahead of Trump in the polls.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-electoral-votes-gop-insiders-226932

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dubyadiprecession

(5,711 posts)
1. Trump said yesterday that if he loses he can just go back to his comfortable life...
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:10 AM
Aug 2016

So who cares if he uses the republican party like it's toilet paper?

malaise

(269,004 posts)
2. The bigger question for me is how did ReTHUGs ever believe
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:16 AM
Aug 2016

he had a fugging chance of winning. Americans are not that stupid.

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
3. Unfortunately there are a lot of them that are that stupid
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:34 AM
Aug 2016

at least 1/3 of Americans. That seems to be the base support level for anyone (like W) with an R next to their name. No matter how incompetent or deranged that Pol is.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
7. Every single ignoramus in this country lined up behind Rump, the king of stupid.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:03 AM
Aug 2016

Fortunately, looks like there aren't enough of them to win the presidency.

LostOne4Ever

(9,288 posts)
5. Its worse to underestimate an opponent than to overestimate one.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:43 AM
Aug 2016

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#00009d]Dump's chances of winning are practically non-existent but so long as there is a 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of him winning I say don't risk it.

We should pound him and his party without the slightest bit of mercy and just keep on piling on the pressure until every single republican realizes that he has no chance and then jumps ship for Hillary, the Libertarians, or some other independent or third party.

He needs to lose so bad that he finishes 3rd or lower. He needs to lose so bad we regain the house and senate. So badly that he loses all 50 states! So badly that he is a complete political pariah! So badly Mitt Romney makes jokes about how bad of a campaign he ran.

Show that bigoted overgrown umpa lumpa No mercy! [/font]

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
8. Republicans hitched their fortunes to a loser.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:11 AM
Aug 2016

They expected not to be scammed by a reality tv scam artist.

lindysalsagal

(20,686 posts)
9. The GOP used to be top-down, but the teaparty broke it. Their base is a bunch
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:58 AM
Aug 2016

of whining toddlers now. They're afraid of their own base because anyone with half a brain left the party. And with gerrymandering and outside money, the house can never be unseated, and ignore leadership.

They're owned by the blind, the lame, the bigots, and the clueless. Not great bosses to have.

Greybnk48

(10,168 posts)
13. If Hillary wins by a landslide, which I think she will,
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 10:28 AM
Aug 2016

I sure hope she pulls every down-ticket Dem with her! Every single one!

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
15. She should spend the next month discussing nothing but actualizable party planks.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 11:09 AM
Aug 2016

And tell anyone who will listen that we don't get dick unless we get a Blue House.

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