How Hillary Clinton Met Satan

[gwb-trading]

Completely agree Jem. I've heard gwb-trading's opinion about the "anti-Trump" animosity for months now. He seems to believe that some centrist Democrat-"lite" would be a strong candidate, yet he ignores the absolute beating all of these supposedly "strong" moderate Republicans took just a few short months ago.

I've said it before, I'll say it again...You can't run this "centrist" status quo type of campaign in an economy as stratified as this one. There is far too much of an "us vs. them" component baked into the cake. Candidates who simply try to "please everyone" with these canned campaign pledges that don't "offend" anyone (think Jeb), wind up pissing off everyone. That is the reality of where we are in 2016. Trump has gained his base of support because he has taken a very "controversial" stance on a whole variety of topics. Something, I might add, none of the other 15 "moderate's" had the gonads to even contemplate.

The key reason that Trump won the primary is because 70% of the vote was divided across 15 moderates. If the primary field was simply Trump vs. one moderate Republican candidate then Trump would have lost the primary with a mere 30% of the vote. There is a significant lesson for the Republican party in the recent primary, and I would expect to see some changes to narrow the possible number of candidates for the 2020 primary.

 

[LacesOut]

The key reason that Trump won the primary is because 70% of the vote was divided across 15 moderates. If the primary field was simply Trump vs. one moderate Republican candidate then Trump would have lost the primary with a mere 30% of the vote. There is a significant lesson for the Republican party in the recent primary, and I would expect to see some changes to narrow the possible number of candidates for the 2020 primary.

This is not true.

 

[gwb-trading]

This is not true.

Up to and including Super Tuesday (at which point the primaries are effectively over), what percentage of the total vote did Trump get?

In or around 30%. If he ran against one opponent, the other guy would have gotten approx. 70%.

 

[LacesOut]

Up to and including Super Tuesday (at which point the primaries are effectively over), what percentage of the total vote did Trump get?

In or around 30%. If he ran against one opponent, the other guy would have gotten approx. 70%.

This is a false assumption that the 'other guy' gets the other 70%.
If only two choices are available, Trump surely is the 2nd pick for many of the other voters. The 'other guy' isn't necessarily so.