On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 10:18:41 AM UTC-4, rbowman wrote:
On 05/09/2016 02:37 AM, trader_4 wrote:
You're back to looking at how many primary votes Trump got
out of primary voters. All I'm pointing out,*again* is that
he got 10 mil but 126 mil voted in the 2012 general election.
He can't win a general election with 10 mil people, alienating
so many of the rest of the ~126 mil.

I get it that he has alienated you personally but I will point out
*AGAIN* that he is on track to win more primary votes than any
Republican candidate *EVER*. By your logic no Republican could have ever
won.

Not true at all. He hasn't just alienated me, he's alienated a
whole lot of Republicans, conservatives, Latinos, and women.
What you can't understand is it's possible to appeal to a narrow
base, an angry mob of people that aren't too bright, get them
all stirred up, have them come out to the primary in record numbers
and then LOSE the general election because that's all you have,
the angry mob and most of the rest will not vote for you.



In the best of years slightly less than half of the voters loathe
the winner. In the worst of years you have the Goldwater disaster.

I have no problem with alienating some of the people who probably can't
or won't vote either. If the illegals don't like him, they can go back
to wherever they came from. Same for the Muslims. I guess we're stuck
with BLM but it's time they realize they are a minority and STFU.

Sure, typical, sounds like your on the xenophobic Trump train. It's not
the illegals that are going to vote for Hillary, it's the Latino CITIZENS.
Trump has an 85% negative among them. They aren't going to leave their
country, neither are the Muslims.


The
neocons that got us into the current mess? Screw them. The sellouts that
want to globalize the economy to the detriment of the country? When they
talk about enemies foreign and domestic, they're the domestic version as
far as I'm concerned.

I haven't voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2000, but
I might just break the streak this year. Maybe Trump is blowing smoke
but at least it's the right color smoke. I guess I can go for the hope
and change bait one more time. Something has to give before America is a
third world colony.

I suppose you're also cool with him suggesting that we could default on the
national debt, negotiate to only pay back part of it, like he would do
at one of his failed casinos?