**** Elections thread *****

[wufwugy]

But there is no question that he understands the game, and is playing the game, far better than any other candidate. I respect that.

I disagree. Trump's strategy is his doom. You know why he gets his ass kicked in head to head polls against Cruz or Rubio? Because everybody who isn't already on Trump's wagon fucking hates his guts because he has done nothing but lie and belittle everybody else. When Carson drops out, do you think his supporters will go to Trump? Fat fucking chance. When Bush goes, are his supporters becoming Trumpkins? No fucking way. If Rubio or Cruz go, their supporters will go to the other.

Trump is the ultimate "un-pandered" candidate, meaning that his support comes from the voters that nobody else has pandered to yet (racially charged nationalists who cheer rah rah rah at the sound of "They're (Mexicans) rapists", "blood coming out from her whatever", and "I like people who weren't captured"). But it is his embrace of this crowd that has alienated him to everybody else. That "everybody else" is the size of a group of people he needs in order to win.

So, yeah, his strategy has been abysmal. He's not a genius. His ability to win depends on the hypothesis that there are just enough people who hear his bigoted inanity and say "that's my guy". A whole lot of losers have polled as high as him at this point in the cycles and have lost horribly.

Part of that game is endorsements. Now, everyone HATES palin...but for some reason she is popular to an absurd degree with a subset of ppl. Now, they're trump's ppl. I bet he gets more endorsements, and continues to do well.

Her endorsement isn't garbage, but she is not viewed highly by that many conservatives anymore. Her support aligns with those who already support Trump (*cough* reality celebrity *cough*). The kinds of endorsements Cruz has gotten (like Van Der Plaats) is more important. In fact Cruz is the only person who so far has gotten game-shifting endorsements. I wouldn't be surprised if Cruz gets Mark Levin's endorsement (possibly the most coveted endorsement for any Republican). He's Levin's preferred candidate and Levin is livid at a campaign (signs point to it being Trump's) for trying to intimidate him.



Look at it this way, I'm voting in the GOP primary, and a month ago I was open to the idea of holding my nose and voting for Trump in the general if he were to get the nomination. But today, I can't stand him. He's a self-serving hypocritical lying cheating narcissist. For a while I thought that maybe he was just overtly abrasive yet had some decent ideals behind it all, but nope, the guy has since fully revealed himself to have zero principles.

>50% of those who will vote in this primary will end up feeling the same way about Lena Trumpan as I do.