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The GOP’s Really Going to Do It: Trump Isn’t a Phase — Republicans Think He’s Their Best Shot
A poll bolsters Trump's campaign by showing that not only do GOP voters like him, they think he can beat Clinton.http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gops-really-going-do-it-trump-isnt-phase-republicans-think-hes-their-best-shot?akid=13595.227380.BWWWLh&rd=1&src=newsletter1044494&t=9
For months now, the assumption in the mainstream press has been that the Donald Trump candidacy is just a phase for Republican primary voters, and that after they spent the pre-primary season expressing themselves, they would settle down and vote for someone who actually stands a chance running against Hillary Clinton, such as a Jeb Bush or a Marco Rubio. Since July, there have been dozens of prominent pundits declaring that Trump-mania was about to wind down so the real race can begin, and, hilariously, those predictions continue to fail and Trump continues to dominate the polls.
To be entirely fair, there is good reason to believe that Trump is going to flame out and a party standard-bearer will step in. After all, that’s what happened in the 2012 primary season, as voters expressed their id by backing candidates like Herman Cain or Newt Gingrich before settling down and running the only guy who had half a chance against Obama, Mitt Romney. History shows that as much as Republican primary voters like to imagine they’re pissing off the liberals, they also blanch and remember that they would like even more to have a reasonable shot at the White House. Under the circumstances, the Trump flameout isn’t an unreasonable prediction.
But now there’s new ABC News/Washington Post polling data that complicates the picture tremendously. The data shows not just that Republican voters like Trump, but that they believe he has a better chance of winning the general election than Clinton. It’s not even a close race....
WHICH IS WHY BERNIE SANDERS, WHO CONSISTENTLY POLLS AS DEFEATING TRUMP, SHOULD BE OUR NOMINEE. BERNIE IS ACCEPTABLE TO THE LIBERALS, PROGRESSIVES, SOCIALISTS, TEA PARTY, THE 99% IN GENERAL...A MAN FOR THE TIMES, A MAN FOR THE PEOPLE.
ON EDIT: ADDING THIS:
How the Brewing Revolt of Working Americans Is Driving Sanders' Rise (and Fueling Trump's Dangerous Success)
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/how-brewing-revolt-working-americans-driving-sanders-rise-and-fueling-trumps-dangerous?akid=13595.227380.BWWWLh&rd=1&src=newsletter1044494&t=3
Sanders' backers want a government that works. Trump's backers want a government that gets even...Lost in the tumult of covering the 2016 presidential campaign trail is a striking reality that’s largely gone unacknowledged: the brewing revolt at the grassroots by working- and middle-class Americans who feel left behind by the system.
This discontent and its insecurities are fueling the surges of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, who offer different responses to it, and whose candidacies haven’t faded despite predictions from party insiders and many pundits. It’s also underscored by the fact that the GOP’s two leading candidates—Trump and Ben Carson—have never held elective office, unlike the senators and governors trailing them.
Sanders and Trump, in very different ways, are highlighting the failure of status-quo politics to address concerns that hit home with non-wealthy Americans. But while Sanders is running a campaign based on a positive vision of government doing more for these Americans, Trump is striking a cord with people who feel other slices of society need to be put down so they can rise up...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/how-brewing-revolt-working-americans-driving-sanders-rise-and-fueling-trumps-dangerous?akid=13595.227380.BWWWLh&rd=1&src=newsletter1044494&t=3
Sanders' backers want a government that works. Trump's backers want a government that gets even...Lost in the tumult of covering the 2016 presidential campaign trail is a striking reality that’s largely gone unacknowledged: the brewing revolt at the grassroots by working- and middle-class Americans who feel left behind by the system.
This discontent and its insecurities are fueling the surges of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, who offer different responses to it, and whose candidacies haven’t faded despite predictions from party insiders and many pundits. It’s also underscored by the fact that the GOP’s two leading candidates—Trump and Ben Carson—have never held elective office, unlike the senators and governors trailing them.
Sanders and Trump, in very different ways, are highlighting the failure of status-quo politics to address concerns that hit home with non-wealthy Americans. But while Sanders is running a campaign based on a positive vision of government doing more for these Americans, Trump is striking a cord with people who feel other slices of society need to be put down so they can rise up...
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It would be nice to see principles win one for a change 
