Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

ISIS is on the decline. Military is doing just fine, if over extended. Counting the unemployed this way made Reagan look good in 1986. Foreign policy is better now than under Powell and Rice. School's suck because of liberal policies and black kids who have shit home lives. The anger is from ignorant white folk that want a paycheck for menial labor.

 

I imagine a lot of them identify as independents, but independents have mostly been conservatives who vote Republican for awhile now.

 

I think NotTrump can survive losing Florida if they deny him Ohio. But if he gets both, then it's awfully hard to keep him under 50%.

 

Tonight is just another bulletpoint in the data that Trump isn't as bulletproof in the primaries as the "winners win and he wins" narrative. He's underperformed his polling on a lot of election nights, and his support *has* gone down at times when attacks have landed or he does poorly in a debate.

He's still got the inside track on the nomination because he's going to win some key winner-take-all states while Cruz is winning proportional ones, but he isn't some magical pied piper who goes up no matter what.

 

I see all the things I listed are things of which you apparently approve.

 

A little over 18.000 people voted in the Maine Republican caucus. Maine's not a large state in population, but even so that would indicate that the enthusiasm meme is not universal. It may be that with fewer choices, fewer Republicans are turning out -- at least in Maine.

 

Cruz takes 12 delegates in Maine, Trump 9, Kasich 2,Ruibo 0.

 

We're in the last days of the Rubio campaign. Unless the polls are missing wildly and he actually does win Florida, he's toast.

 

Cruz has raised $104m
Rubio $84.6m
Kasich $24m

(numbers through Jan filings).

Rubio and Cruz have both spent over twice what Kasich has raised. Curious how Kasich would be doing if he had big-boy money.

 

Voters have a right to be angry even in the best of times. Misery is anyone's right.

I abhor the right wing media for embracing it at every turn. Evil lurks everywhere. Wickedness reigns. The manipulation is despicable.

 

Look at what the anger business has done to your discourse.