I haven't seen those characters since that Star Trek: TNG episode first aired.

It seems a kamikaze strategy that will deliver the White House to the Dems.

He'll stay calm for a week or two or so, giving the new staff a chance. When it doesn't deliver the results he dreams of (he'll be grade school impatient), then he'll go off. We might see him really implode.

Using Breibart conspiracy theories - that's going to pit mainstream media against them.

This pollster seems at best ok for handling polls but as a campaign manager? I have major doubts. She's no Plouffe/Axelrod - none of them are.

They have to turn this around on a dime. That's really hard to do quickly when you take over an organization and don't know the staff, the history, etc - and may be cash starved because these polling dives are not helping bring in money. The Trump campaign don't even know a bunch of these people they've hired.

They've been doing no ads and don't seem to have much planned/developed yet. They have a very suspect and raw ground game team - months behind Clinton.

I'd just like them to hang on until it's absolutely too late to replace him - so I wouldn't mind seeing a little bounce back in the polls - just enough to suck them into staying the course. And then, I'll be delighted by his inevitable demise because I agree with Nate - there's no way this gong show of a campaign can succeed.

Letting Trump be Trump is like saying "let our candidate be a 24/7 asshole". It's crazy.

I don't foresee a lot of party unity happening either--they may disown him sooner rather than later.

his whole appeal is spewing bombastic nonsense.

So, his drowsily mumbling teleprompter policy speeches is not going to come close to getting the current margin erased.

He does have to "be him" to get the buzz, but the buzzworthy shit he said that helped him in a primary where it was a race to the bottom is hurting him in the general where he already has the lowest common denominator in his corner and the margin are people are not either pure simple asses or hard right wing simple asses.

The only two things that really change the dynamic now is 1) some kind of real or hyped up issue that really hurts Hillary 2) something REALLY bad that hurts the country or world.

Most folks do not want him in charge of serious things.

The #1 is the last threat. An October surprise from the hacks or Clinton Foundation.

That's the one thing he might be working towards with his strategy. Hillary gets cut down some by a scandal (maybe that's why he's got conspiracy media Breitbart) and him being Trump solidifies the base he had from the primaries that with Hillary's fall - where some of her support might go to 3rd parties - might elevate him high enough to steal it. Scary and a Hail Mary.

Part of what frightens me about the Clinton Foundation is that we've never really sorted it out or had a third party look at it like the FBI did the emails and report conclusions that cleared her. Now we're left with the potential of hurtful innuendo. She may be vulnerable to an attack from there - to be swiftboated by it. The docs hacked from the DNC server said as much.

As long as Trump remains the GOP candidate, I think he can go lower in the polls - he's so bombastic. That might be the best answer to that kind of an attack. It's why I don't want him to quit.

Yup and his Reich wing fans demand that Trump be Trump!

No way do they want him to "pivot", that's what the old school republicans want him to do, not the fire-eating racist mob that got him the nomination.

Trump is going to flame out in a dirty miasma of teabag filth and take the republican party down as well IMO.

I hope to God they never recover from Trump's Götterdämmerung.

Yes, Drumpf runs casinos (into the ground), but the phrase 'double down' has bee worn to death this past year!
And yeah, his campaign is a crap shoot that is rolling snake-eyes at this point and can't get a seven to save it.