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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
Disagree.
Trump has hit a nerve with people---whether they are Republican, Democrat, or Independent.
People are tired of their elected leaders only serving their own interests, enriching themselves at the expense of the electorate, and furthering the interests of the wealthy and the powerful, and Trump is essentially calling the leaders out on their past actions and inability to do anything productive for America.
Case in point: McCain has done very little for veterans, and Trump is highlighting that. McCain's buddies have gone crazy with the revelation and the manner in which Trump has made it, but they aren't denying the underlying substance of the claim.
It won't be long until Trump turns on Hillary as well, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of Hillary's supporters wake up and realize that a vote for Hillary is a vote for the status-quo, and that the status-quo isn't working.
I--like most people, I presume--don't like everything that Trump says.
But I---like most people, I presume--do like and agree with some of it.
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Trump has hit a nerve with
Republican voters, who if you didn't already know are pissed off 24/7/365 to begin with. He's just been the most outlandish in trying to represent them. But he still will not poll above 25% in a general. Remember if Sarah Palin were in this race, she might be at 25% herself, at worst she'd be locked into the top 3 spots. This is more of representation of why the GOP has lost 6 Presidential elections in a row (yes, I'm calling 2000 stolen): Play to the base to get the nomination is how you lose the general.
It's the nomination process, not the general election. Never mind that he has to win the electoral college and not just dominate the Bible Belt states in popular vote. He is guaranteed to lose New York, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Right there the GOP doesn't have the math to 271. It's a fun, hilarious debacle of a story right now, but remember there's undoubtedly skeletons in the Donald's closet (and hairpieces of course), and we still haven't gotten to those yet. He's basically hoping the electorate will be pissed off for the next 15 months, and that he doesn't implode in that time.