Early on in the Donald Trump campaign to be President of the United States as a Republican, newspapers and news sites were full of articles saying the "joke" would soon fade away and quit or that now his popularity will drop etc. Well, the joke's on the ol' elephant.
This elephant aka the G.O.P. has forgotten something important. A political party is only relevant if it wins, and instead of embracing, ok, with gritted teeth, the most popular of the wannabes, it has been doing everything possible to facilitate his loss. Yes, I'm rather surprised that the party establishment is so autistically incapable of reading the will and opinions of ordinary Americans. This is even worse than in the Israeli elections of a few decades ago when the Labor Party referred to those who attended Likud election rallies and adored Menachem Begin as "riff-raff." Not only did they lose that election, but they alienated potential supporters.
Donald Trump Hits 49 Percent Support in New National PollForty-nine percent of Republican voters say they back Trump for the Republican nomination in the new CNN-ORC poll released this morning. Sen. Marco Rubio earns 16 percent support, Sen. Ted Cruz earns 15 percent, Dr. Ben Carson has 10 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 6 percent.It comes after the New York real estate mogul has won three consecutive early contests and is on the cusp of a major, must-win primary battle for Cruz in Texas Tuesday.
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These new Trump poll numbers should absolutely terrify RepublicansI don't know why the party machine prefer defeat to Trump. Every time they treat him like a pariah they lower their chances to work with him and guarantee a win.
Ever since the primary system began in order to choose party nominees, the ordinary American citizen has gotten more power and the party machines less. For years I've been waiting for a constitutional amendment to banish the antidemocratic Electoral College, which can so easily distort election results, because it overrides the Popular Vote.
The New American Revolution has begun!
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Problem is, most polls show either Cruz or Rubio defeating Hillary, but most show Trump LOSING to her! So it's not just his obnoxiousness that they object to, but rather the prospect of Hillarious running the USA for the next 4 (8?) years!
-- yitz
The form has changed but the substance has not. Instead of conventions and back-room deals deciding the candidate, the primary system, which gives everybody a vote but manipulates it with large sums of money, still dirties the nature of democracy. I think Rubio is the best candidate for the Republicans. I feel like Trump is some kind of a false-flag type of candidate, possibly put up by the power-brokers to lose to Hillary. But the better Bernie Sanders does in the primaries the more it pushes Hillary to the left and makes her more vulnerable. Bernie vs. Rubio would give America a real choice and a chance to discuss the issues, but I fear Trump vs. Hillary.
From a lifetime of obseving politics one thinf for sure. There is no truth in advertising. They will promise anything for a vote but cannot be relied on.
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