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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
His unlikeability should matter...except all the traditional metrics that said he should already be gone have proven incorrect.
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Like what, exactly?
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It's time to stop analyzing Trump as anything like a traditional candidate, he's a once in a lifetime candidate beyond compare. Traditional metrics and things that should be terrible or doom a normal candidate do not apply to him.
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History still applies. He is not the first populist. Maybe in your lifetime.
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I mean this is a candidate who has consistently retweeted from explicitly racist posters (such as last week retweeting from someone called White Genocide...), whose spokesperson is on TV trolling non-stop, who herself has racists tweets in the past....and his numbers continue to rise. I know people want to keep acting like this is a sideshow that's going away, but those are likely the people who will be posting here wondering what he hell just happened when it's November 9, 2016 and it's President-elect Trump.
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The GOP's race is far, far different from the general election. Trump can win a race between 6 or 7 candidates for an electorate where his populism has enough ardent followers. He will have almost no support among moderates or undecided, and even less among the left. He has no chance