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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
The other thing is that even among primary voters, Trump is still only getting 35%. Turnout is high, but some of those voters are showing up to vote against him, not for him.
There is a reason the higher-ups in the GOP are not jumping on the Trump bandwagon. They (rightly) see this as a winnable election for them against a vulnerable candidate and (in my view also rightly) feel that nominating Trump turns that winnable election into a landslide of McGovern-type proportions that risks losing them the Senate, if not the House.
Are they right? Well, only time will tell-- but Karl Rove isn't working hard to mobilize the GOP against Trump because he doesn't like his spray tan. It's because he thinks Trump will be a disaster for the party.
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Yeah, but do you really think come October these people won't be foaming at the mouth the deny Hillary the White House? They can hate Trump all they want right now, they mostly hated Romney and McCain too. But their hatred for Hillary is somewhere in the top 3 things they hate the most. They might not like Trump, but they'll all rally to him in the end. I don't think his floor is any lower than it was with Romney or McCain, but his crossover potential makes him more of a threat to win. Even if he siphons 10% of the Blue Collar Dems, that could be enough to win.
But it honestly will be a wildly unpredictable race if it's Trump/Hillary. We could see states that would normally never be in play actually come into play. We could see an indictment, we could see Trump getting deposed in lawsuits, we might get even more awesome John Oliver takes. It doesn't appear we'll be getting boring and predictable though.