10-22-2016, 04:21 PM
(10-22-2016, 01:40 PM)Anthony Wrote: The bottom line is this: If Hillary wins all the states that Kerry won in 2004, plus Virginia, New Mexico, and Colorado - and she has a seemingly insurmountable lead in all three - she wins. She wouldn't even need to win in North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, or Nevada.
But is everyone missing something here; namely, the Bradley Effect - in this case, respondents lying to pollsters because they don't want to be seen as one of those redneck, racist "deplorables" who are backing Donald Trump? Plus Hillary is a woman, which means some voters could be hiding their Mad Men misogyny by telling pollsters they're for her when they're not.
At the local snake pit (Republican headquarters) I notice some hawking of T-shirts proclaiming 'Deplorables for Trump" as if being so called is a point of pride. At this point I can say that anyone who can still support Donald Trump after all that he has said and has been exposed for having done is very proud to be voting for Donald Trump.
That's how it is with extremists. People are proud to be Commies and Ku Kluxers.
As with George McGovern and Barry Goldwater (which may be more relevant), Donald Trump is almost certainly without support of 'moderates'.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.