08-14-2016, 10:45 AM
(08-13-2016, 11:24 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Hillary's advertising in swing states may be paying off, according to polls which show she is ahead by wider margins there than in the national polls.
I see the pattern with Richard Nixon against George McGovern or LBJ against Barry Goldwater in 1964 -- depict the opponent as a dangerous radical.
Donald Trump is ironically to the Left of every President from at least Reagan on on foreign policy... I certainly wouldn't abandon NATO as Vladimir Putin acts up. On most he is far to the Right.
It is comparatively easy to defeat such a nominee if one defends recent success. Jimmy Carter tried that against Ronald Reagan, but Reagan was able to brush off allegations of his radicalism.
When one has double-digit leads in states generally recognized as swing states (Colorado, New Hampshire, and Virginia) one is in a favorable situation for winning. The Clinton campaign seems to be running out the clock where it sees comfortable leads and is trying to expand the map.
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.