But I thought Obama didn't have any experience, and was just a community organizer? Time to make America dysfunctional again I guess. One would think we'd learn something from Obama - that a polarizing figure leads to gridlock. Have Trump supporters learned anything? Probably not. Just as Obama was blocked everywhere he turned, so will Trump. We need a President who can actually get things done. Sadly, the ones who can make a positive difference won't stand a chance in the polls.

Hell will freeze over before I vote for Richie rich the stubby fingered fat boy.

The Republican National Committee’s rulemakers will meet a week before the Convention, and, though they don’t have absolute discretion—the delegates must approve key rule changes—they may try to make winning harder for Trump. There are risks in that, given that many of Trump’s supporters already believe that the system is rigged. The G.O.P. may have to decide what scares it more: losing without Trump or winning with him.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/21/donald-trump-and-contested-conventions?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

Amazing that this guy continues to spew lie after lie without any compunction whatsoever and people just lap it up...

Donald Trump said that a Pew Research Center survey found that among the world’s Muslims, “27 percent, could be 35 percent, would go to war” against the U.S. The Pew Research Center says it has conducted no survey that asks such a question, nor did experts we consulted know of any such survey. One expert we talked to called Trump’s claim “nonsense.” Another told us it had “no scientific basis.”

Trump’s statement came when “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked Trump about his blanket statement during a March 9 interview on CNN that “Islam hates us.” (Trump doubled down on that statement during the Republican debate the following night.)

On “Fox News Sunday,” Wallace said that among the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, “according to the best experts, think tanks around the world, they say at most, 100,000 people are fighting for jihadist causes. That’s less than — it’s a tiny fraction of 1 percent.”

Trump said Wallace’s figure was “about as wrong as you can get” and that “27 percent, could be 35 percent, would go to war.” Trump cited Pew as his source...

Trump, March 13: You’re saying that out of 1.5 billion, 100,000, right — let me tell you, whoever did that survey was about as wrong as you can get. It’s 27 percent, could be 35 percent, would go to war, would — the hatred is tremendous, Chris.

But, look, there’s something going on, Chris, whether you like it or not. It would be easier for me to say, “Oh, no, everybody loves us.” But there’s something going on. There’s a big problem. And radical Islamic terrorism is taking place all over the world.

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/trumps-false-muslim-claim/

[Edited on 3/16/2016 by gondicar]

Amazing that this guy continues to spew lie after lie without any compunction whatsoever and people just lap it up...

Donald Trump said that a Pew Research Center survey found that among the world’s Muslims, “27 percent, could be 35 percent, would go to war” against the U.S. The Pew Research Center says it has conducted no survey that asks such a question, nor did experts we consulted know of any such survey. One expert we talked to called Trump’s claim “nonsense.” Another told us it had “no scientific basis.”

Trump’s statement came when “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked Trump about his blanket statement during a March 9 interview on CNN that “Islam hates us.” (Trump doubled down on that statement during the Republican debate the following night.)

On “Fox News Sunday,” Wallace said that among the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, “according to the best experts, think tanks around the world, they say at most, 100,000 people are fighting for jihadist causes. That’s less than — it’s a tiny fraction of 1 percent.”

Trump said Wallace’s figure was “about as wrong as you can get” and that “27 percent, could be 35 percent, would go to war.” Trump cited Pew as his source...

Trump, March 13: You’re saying that out of 1.5 billion, 100,000, right — let me tell you, whoever did that survey was about as wrong as you can get. It’s 27 percent, could be 35 percent, would go to war, would — the hatred is tremendous, Chris.

Wallace: … Wait, wait, you’re saying 250 — you’re saying 250 — 300 million Muslims would go to war against us?

Trump: Why don’t you take a look at the Pew poll that came out very recently or fairly recently, where I think the number — I mean, I could be corrected, it’s whatever it is — but it’s something like 27 percent are, you know, really very militant about going after things.

And you’ll have to look at it. They did a very strong study. And let’s see what it says. But it’s a very significant number. It’s not 100,000 people, I can tell you that. It’s a ridiculous number.

But, look, there’s something going on, Chris, whether you like it or not. It would be easier for me to say, “Oh, no, everybody loves us.” But there’s something going on. There’s a big problem. And radical Islamic terrorism is taking place all over the world.

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/trumps-false-muslim-claim/

[Edited on 3/16/2016 by gondicar]

Trump is likely making some of these things up.

However, back when squatchtexas (was that his username), in the early 2000s, when there was lively debate around here about terrorism worldwide and who sympathizes with it or supports it, I do remember some Pew Research polling that asking Muslims about terror attacks and if they can be justified and if they support Bin Laden. I will look to see if I can find anything - I doubt that is what Trump is referring to because it was like 10 years ago; who knows what he is referring to. But I'm not willing to crucify him for saying Islam hastes us. There is an appreciable number of Muslims that do support violence against civilians and spreading jihad - let me see if I can back it up, I'll get back to you. While I doubt the question has ever been asked to some number of Muslim's if they hate us, but what if they did ask that question to some number burning the US flag or burning President Obama in effigy or chanting death to America in the streets somewhere? Is it a majority world wide, likely not. That has always been the problem with radical Islam is that the bad ones paint the picture for the whole religion.

But this is what Trump does. He takes something that there may be some truth to it, however then speaks in such broad terms with no specifics or links to where or why he feels this way that it gets easily disregarded. It's my major issue with him. Not that he says that Islam hates us, my issue is that he can't substantiate his position - which I'm pretty sure if he was more intelligent on the issue he could provide some data to back his position up.

It's my major issue with him. Not that he says that Islam hates us, my issue is that he can't substantiate his position - which I'm pretty sure if he was more intelligent on the issue he could provide some data to back his position up.

I would hope that he would at least have a base intelligence to realize that a non-sentient entity cannot "hate" anyone.

But this is what Trump does. He takes something that there may be some truth to it, however then speaks in such broad terms with no specifics or links to where or why he feels this way that it gets easily disregarded.

Sounds like you are soft peddling the fact that he flat out makes stuff up, i.e. LIES. All. The. Time.

It's my major issue with him. Not that he says that Islam hates us, my issue is that he can't substantiate his position - which I'm pretty sure if he was more intelligent on the issue he could provide some data to back his position up.

Except that Islam doesn't hate us. That's made up so he CAN'T substantiate it, except with more made up stuff.

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Kent Brockman: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?

Homer Simpson: Aw, you can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that.

Kent Brockman: I see. Well, what do you say to the accusation that your group has been causing more crimes than it's been preventing?

Homer Simpson: Oh, Kent, I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes.

Kent Brockman: (pause) Well, touché.

But this is what Trump does. He takes something that there may be some truth to it, however then speaks in such broad terms with no specifics or links to where or why he feels this way that it gets easily disregarded.

Sounds like you are soft peddling the fact that he flat out makes stuff up, i.e. LIES. All. The. Time.

It's my major issue with him. Not that he says that Islam hates us, my issue is that he can't substantiate his position - which I'm pretty sure if he was more intelligent on the issue he could provide some data to back his position up.

Except that Islam doesn't hate us. That's made up so he CAN'T substantiate it, except with more made up stuff.

For some reason I was just reminded of this guy. Anyone remember Rod Smart? I could have run for President this year and probably made a go of it.

Absolutely anyone can twist statistics to make any point they like.

The problem with Trump is that on some things he doesn't even twist the statistics when trying to make his point.

Islam itself can't do anything very true, it is like an inanimate object, this we know. But I think you know an expression like that has meaning towards the people believing and following Islam. Like saying Christianity hates abortion. Christianity can't hate abortion, but some, or even a majority of people within Christianity can. I mean I don't care if somebody wants to be a Christian and support killing babies, I really don't care, but it seems rather contradictory and it seems like a Christian should hate abortion.

Some might actually try to make the case that Islam hates 'us' based on passages in the Koran calling for jihad against nonbelievers and whatever. I don't really get to into what the Korean says just like I don't really get into what the bible says. However, some have tried to express this point through the years, maybe it is true there are interpretations in the Korean that justify terrorism - and if there are people who subscribe to that belief one could paint with a broad brush and say "the people in that religion hate us and our way of life" - it would be more accurate to say "the people in that religion who believe the radical view hate us and our way of life". But alot of people aren't so careful when they talk and we all use hyperbole to one extent or another.

So anyway, I think I may have found a poll I had previously seen. Again, I highly doubt this is what Trump is referring to, so he either made up what he said or he saw or read something that caused him to say what he said.

A 2005 pew research poll on various issues. Somebody could make the point that if 30.833% (averaged together 2005 results) of Muslims polled in 6 countries have confidence in Osama Bin Laden...it isn't a great leap to say those people also likely hate the USA. I think anyone would have to agree on that point. See table 3 here - http://www.pewglobal.org/2006/05/23/where-terrorism-finds-support-in-the-muslim-world/

Now obviously you take Muslims in a certain part of the world and ask them a question like that you are going to get answers skewed one way and then when you come to a more western style country you are going to get answers skewed the other way, so the average would ofcourse come down.

It gets back to making statistics say whatever you want them to yes. If somebody has a point, try to substantiate the point. Trump does not do that. On the other hand if Ted Cruz is going to make a point I guarantee he is going to have some evidence to back himself up. Trump often has little.

I might be defending Trump, maybe because on some things he is pretty close to where I am. But for the record when given a chance to vote for him yesterday I did not. And for the record I don't think every Muslim hates us. Do I think maybe 10% might, that is something I could see being true. Or maybe I just like to take an opposite view here because it is fun.

Nebish, Trump does not know much about Islam and probably not much about the End Times that Christianity has predicted. But he did recognize and he said it on Fox News "we've become the world's whippin' post'. Once he realizes the battle is between the Illuminati and power moguls of the world (the ones who flew 70 jets to a private island off Georgia to discuss how to stop his rise to power) versus the good, Godly people of the world. He will be delighted with the task he may be given to manage the world and go up against the anti-Christ. It would be his biggest deal! Trump versus Satan, it doesn't get any bigger than that.

I believe there is hope. He is intelligent and he can be educated. When he is properly educated ( 😉 ) he may become a great ally to the correct Islam and correct Christianity.

Thank goodness for Gina, the voice of reason.

Thank goodness for Gina, the voice of reason.

I just wish she would share whatever she is smoking.

And Donald trump keeps winning primaries, bringing in democrats and independents and is saying in speeches the things the people want talked about.

Hillary Clinton, the only candidate left for the democrats, never utters the words jobs, free and fair trade and national security.

The liberals keep crying while they keep losing.

And Donald trump keeps winning primaries, bringing in democrats and independents and is saying in speeches the things the people want talked about.

Hillary Clinton, the only candidate left for the democrats, never utters the words jobs, free and fair trade and national security.

The liberals keep crying while they keep losing.

Hillary is going to be the next president and the GOP is going to lose the senate. Trump will be the nail in the coffin of the GOP. Come November the GOP is going to be dealing with a highly fractured party and will be grateful that the still have the house, not that they have ever done anything in the house.

And Donald trump keeps winning primaries, bringing in democrats and independents and is saying in speeches the things the people want talked about.

Hillary Clinton, the only candidate left for the democrats, never utters the words jobs, free and fair trade and national security.

The liberals keep crying while they keep losing.

Hillary is going to be the next president and the GOP is going to lose the senate. Trump will be the nail in the coffin of the GOP. Come November the GOP is going to be dealing with a highly fractured party and will be grateful that the still have the house, not that they have ever done anything in the house.

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Hillary won't be going to the White House.
She will be going to the Big House.

And Donald trump keeps winning primaries, bringing in democrats and independents and is saying in speeches the things the people want talked about.

Hillary Clinton, the only candidate left for the democrats, never utters the words jobs, free and fair trade and national security.

The liberals keep crying while they keep losing.

Hillary is going to be the next president and the GOP is going to lose the senate. Trump will be the nail in the coffin of the GOP. Come November the GOP is going to be dealing with a highly fractured party and will be grateful that the still have the house, not that they have ever done anything in the house.

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Hillary won't be going to the White House.
She will be going to the Big House.

I didn't know she was an ABB fan. 😛

Media, Beltway warnings about Trump a throwback to 1980
Published March 17, 2016

Another day, another dire warning about Donald Trump’s growing power. This time, The Washington Post editorial board declared Republicans must “block” his election, warning he “presents a threat to American democracy.”

This isn’t the first time, however, that the editorial pages and the pundits have tripped the alarms about an outsider Republican candidate.

The warnings about Trump are in some ways a throwback to what was said and written about Ronald Reagan when he ran against Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Then, the former California governor was portrayed as a fascist and compared to Hitler. He was accused of stoking nationalistic fears, and offering simplistic solutions to big issues.
Journalists also pointed to Reagan’s political affiliation with the Democrats for a major part of his life.

Sound familiar?

In July of 1980, Anthony Lewis of the New York Times wrote that Reagan was “bellicose” and “simple-minded,” explaining that as “Reagan has become more deliberate in his remarks on foreign affairs over recent months, that quality has remained -- a sense that he is somehow not connected with the world as it is.”

In Jay Perkins’ coverage for the Associated Press of the 1980 election, he wrote that Reagan’s problem is “not a loose lip but the simple answer. In Mr. Reagan's case it appears to arise from a romanticized image of America. … Translating nostalgia into policy is far more difficult, and dangerous, than he lets on.”

The warnings were more heated from the lawmakers and pundits.
As the American Enterprise Institute’s Steven Hayward recalled in a 2011 piece, Democratic then-Rep. William Clay alleged Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.”

He added, “Harry Stein (later a conservative convert) wrote in Esquire that the voters who supported Reagan were like the ‘good Germans’ in ‘Hitler’s Germany.’”

Meanwhile, as Trump has faced accusations for shifting positions, Reagan faced many of the same complications in his coverage.

Lou Cannon of the Washington Post wrote in the fall of 1980: “Throughout the fall campaign, this Reagan has muted much of his conservative rhetoric in an effort to reposition himself as a born-again New Dealer sympathetic to the plight of blue-collar workers pinched by unemployment and inflation.”

Cannon went on to write in-depth about the various “versions” of Reagan that appeared, claiming he shifted core values in virtually every election he ran. “This strategy does not sit particularly well with either the handful of Republicans on the party's liberal wing nor with the ultraconservatives who have been largely shut out from key campaign positions.”

Reagan, like Trump, also took heat for his simple answers to questions about complex topics.
In late spring of 1980, Gerald C. Lubenow of Newsweek wrote that Reagan’s appeal to a wide range of voters came from his ability to churn out those answers. Regarding criticisms of Reagan’s substance, Lubenow wrote, “on occasion, such simplicities have gotten Reagan into trouble and generated the impression that his pronouncements are, at best, poorly researched.”

The central narrative on Reagan, though, focused on his nationalistic rhetoric. Indeed, he pushed for voters to rally behind the United States as it prepared to confront the Soviet Union.

President Jimmy Carter’s campaign quickly seized an opportunity to question Reagan’s competence on foreign policy when Reagan publicly supported Taiwan, a statement that had the potential of enflaming Sino-American relations in the event of his election.

In the 2016 cycle, many pundits and Republican rivals also cite Trump’s murky answers to complex issues. They say Trump lacks substance in his answers, and flip-flops – pointing, for instance, to his once-pro-choice stance that has since changed to pro-life.

Opponents say Trump’s changes in position are indicative of how he lacks trustworthiness as a candidate. They say Trump’s rhetoric does damage to the Republican brand, arguing it alienates large groups of people.

But critics also suggest the problems with Trump are far more consequential than past concerns about Reagan.

As the Post editorial board wrote:

“Mr. Trump resembles other strongmen throughout history who have achieved power by manipulating democratic processes. Their playbook includes a casual embrace of violence; a willingness to wield government powers against personal enemies; contempt for a free press; demonization of anyone who is not white and Christian; intimations of dark conspiracies; and the propagation of sweeping, ugly lies.”

Ronald Reagan won in a landslide victory humiliating Carter and the Democrats.

Of course muledrool didn't give a source to this story because it was Fox News.

www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/17/analysis-media-beltway-warnings-about-trump-throwback-to-1980.html

Fox News. Far right wing source. Dismissed. Next!

What people across the globe think of Donald Trump
By Jessica King and Wes Little, CNN

Updated 3:04 PM ET, Thu March 17, 2016

(CNN) CNN asked people across the globe what they think of the Republican candidate. Here are three things we learned.

There's a lot of fear

Just how would the world react to a Trump White House? Most people we asked say they're scared. "I'm actually very, very worried," a Hong Kong woman told CNN.

Some fear a breakdown in relations between the United States and other countries, while others are concerned he'll encourage cultural intolerance. The "melting pot we know America as is going to change a lot" a young Cairo student said. Some people are more pessimistic. Standing in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, a woman concluded that "Americans could go back in time with this president."

A few believed that a Trump presidency would lead to World War III.

He has some supporters in Russia and Israel

CNN talked to dozens of everyday people in a range of places: London, Berlin, Moscow, Cairo, Jerusalem, Jakarta and Hong Kong. Not many were Trump fans. But we did find a few -- and they were in just two places.

"He's not quiet, and this is what we need. Someone who will do something," an Israeli man told us from the country's capital. "I welcome the idea" another Jerusalem citizen said.

More than 3,000 miles away, we found supporters on the frigid streets of Russia's capital.

"Donald Trump is more pragmatic because he's a businessman" a Moscow man told CNN, adding that he thinks U.S.-Russia relations would get better if Trump was president. "Trump might change the attitude of Americans towards Russia" echoed another Russian.

Donald Trump is ...

We asked people to finish that sentence. People overwhelmingly said "businessman." "Rich man" and "entertainer" were used a lot, too.

Some people went further.

"Donald Trump is a great businessman, a great speaker -- a motivational speaker -- and a great reality TV star, but by no means a great politician," Jeremy Starr Lam in Hong Kong said. Several words people used are not fit for print.

And while his two supporters in Jerusalem both described Trump as "nice," others just don't know what to think. Some shrugged or winced. A London woman thought about it and simply said: "I'm at a loss for words."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/politics/world-reacts-donald-trump/index.html

Yes, Trump Said Bush ‘Lied’

By Eugene Kiely
Posted on March 17, 2016

Donald Trump on Fox News denied that he ever accused President George W. Bush of lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. “I didn’t say lie,” Trump said. “I said he may have lied.” That’s false. Trump at least twice — most recently in a debate last month — said Bush “lied.”

Bill O’Reilly, host of Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” told Trump (4:06 mark) that he disagreed with Trump on Bush’s motives for invading Iraq in 2003. “I disagree with you vehemently about George Bush, the younger, lying on purpose to get us into a war with Iraq,” O’Reilly said. Trump denied he called Bush a liar.

But Trump did say Bush lied, and on more than one occasion.

In the Feb. 13 debate in South Carolina, debate moderator John Dickerson asked Trump about an October 2008 interview in which Trump said it would have been a “wonderful thing” if Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi tried to impeach Bush because he lied about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. Asked if he still believes that Bush should have been impeached, Trump called the Iraq war a “big fat mistake.” Pressed again for an answer, Trump went on to say, “They lied.”

As for his 2008 comments, Trump said of Bush in an interview with CNN, “He lied. He got us into the war with lies.” Wolf Blitzer, host of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” pushed back, saying Bush administration officials argue that the intelligence they received was wrong — not that they lied. “I don’t believe that,” Trump responded.

Here is Trump’s exchange with Blitzer, who asked Trump to “grade” public officials:

Blitzer, Oct. 15, 2008: Nancy Pelosi, the speaker?

Trump: I don’t believe it. And I don’t think you believe it either, Wolf. You are a very, very intelligent young man. I don’t think you believe it either.

Trump has every right to change his mind, but he can’t change what he said. And he did say Bush lied.

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/yes-trump-said-bush-lied/

[Edited on 3/17/2016 by gondicar]

Voters are dumping the Democratic Party in massive numbers. The DNC and their lapdogs in the liberal media are freaking out:

Democrats beware: Donald Trump is finding success well outside the Republican fringe

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0316-mcmanus-trump-rubio-florida-20160316-column.html

On thing is for sure, Trump is proving that there are a lot of low info voters out there (as the article mule just posted points out).

Voters are dumping the Democratic Party in massive numbers. The DNC and their lapdogs in the liberal media are freaking out:

Democrats beware: Donald Trump is finding success well outside the Republican fringe

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0316-mcmanus-trump-rubio-florida-20160316-column.html

Yet Trump is behind Clinton in every single poll, even the ones by the right-wing polling organizations. Trump is a gift to the Democratic party. He will hand the presidency to Clinton, give the Democrats something to rally around, and will end up fracturing the Republican party.

Voters are dumping the Democratic Party in massive numbers. The DNC and their lapdogs in the liberal media are freaking out:

Democrats beware: Donald Trump is finding success well outside the Republican fringe

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0316-mcmanus-trump-rubio-florida-20160316-column.html

Yet Trump is behind Clinton in every single poll, even the ones by the right-wing polling organizations. Trump is a gift to the Democratic party. He will hand the presidency to Clinton, give the Democrats something to rally around, and will end up fracturing the Republican party.

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There are no creditable national polls at this point in the election cycle so your assumption is crap.

"fracturing the Republican party" - just more left-wing crap.
Voting is up 67% on the Republican primaries and most of those votes are going to Donald trump.

Ha ha.

Voters are dumping the Democratic Party in massive numbers. The DNC and their lapdogs in the liberal media are freaking out:

Democrats beware: Donald Trump is finding success well outside the Republican fringe

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0316-mcmanus-trump-rubio-florida-20160316-column.html

Yet Trump is behind Clinton in every single poll, even the ones by the right-wing polling organizations. Trump is a gift to the Democratic party. He will hand the presidency to Clinton, give the Democrats something to rally around, and will end up fracturing the Republican party.

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There are no creditable national polls at this point in the election cycle so your assumption is crap.

"fracturing the Republican party" - just more left-wing crap.
Voting is up 67% on the Republican primaries and most of those votes are going to Donald trump.

Ha ha.

Trump hasn't gotten 50% of the vote in a single state. That means that not even half of the voters in his own party like him. Sorry, he's not going to win.

Headlines on the Foxnews.com website - Republicans taking sides amid specter of third party talk. Lots of articles on Fox News website about contested convention. Despite what you stated, I have seen nothing indicating any Democrat freaking out. It is only the Republicans freaking out and desperately finding a way to save this election in November. The Republicans no longer know who they are. Are they the traditional republicans? Are they the tea party? Are they the Christian values voters? Or are they the angry Trump voters that are voting for Trump because they are angry and no other reason? These are all different Republicans, and there isn't a single Republican candidate that will attract all of them. The Republicans may be turning up in the primaries trying beyond hope that their vision of the Republican party will win, mostly because they won't be able to support the other visions of their party. This is why the turnout in the primaries doesn't matter.

[Edited on 3/17/2016 by 2112]

Voters are dumping the Democratic Party in massive numbers. The DNC and their lapdogs in the liberal media are freaking out:

Democrats beware: Donald Trump is finding success well outside the Republican fringe

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0316-mcmanus-trump-rubio-florida-20160316-column.html

Yet Trump is behind Clinton in every single poll, even the ones by the right-wing polling organizations. Trump is a gift to the Democratic party. He will hand the presidency to Clinton, give the Democrats something to rally around, and will end up fracturing the Republican party.

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There are no creditable national polls at this point in the election cycle so your assumption is crap.

"fracturing the Republican party" - just more left-wing crap.
Voting is up 67% on the Republican primaries and most of those votes are going to Donald trump.

Ha ha.

Trump hasn't gotten 50% of the vote in a single state. That means that not even half of the voters in his own party like him. Sorry, he's not going to win.

Headlines on the Foxnews.com website - Republicans taking sides amid specter of third party talk. Lots of articles on Fox News website about contested convention. Despite what you stated, I have seen nothing indicating any Democrat freaking out. It is only the Republicans freaking out and desperately finding a way to save this election in November. The Republicans no longer know who they are. Are they the traditional republicans? Are they the tea party? Are they the Christian values voters? Or are they the angry Trump voters that are voting for Trump because they are angry and no other reason? These are all different Republicans, and there isn't a single Republican candidate that will attract all of them. The Republicans may be turning up in the primaries trying beyond hope that their vision of the Republican party will win, mostly because they won't be able to support the other visions of their party. This is why the turnout in the primaries doesn't matter.

[Edited on 3/17/2016 by 2112]

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"Trump hasn't gotten 50% of the vote in a single state. That means that not even half of the voters in his own party like him"

A nonsense statement. When you have many candidates the votes get spread out but as they have dropped out Trumps take of the votes has steadily climbed.

Voters are dumping the Democratic Party in massive numbers. The DNC and their lapdogs in the liberal media are freaking out:

Democrats beware: Donald Trump is finding success well outside the Republican fringe

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0316-mcmanus-trump-rubio-florida-20160316-column.html

Yet Trump is behind Clinton in every single poll, even the ones by the right-wing polling organizations. Trump is a gift to the Democratic party. He will hand the presidency to Clinton, give the Democrats something to rally around, and will end up fracturing the Republican party.

________________________________________________________________________

There are no creditable national polls at this point in the election cycle so your assumption is crap.

"fracturing the Republican party" - just more left-wing crap.
Voting is up 67% on the Republican primaries and most of those votes are going to Donald trump.

Ha ha.

Trump hasn't gotten 50% of the vote in a single state. That means that not even half of the voters in his own party like him. Sorry, he's not going to win.

Headlines on the Foxnews.com website - Republicans taking sides amid specter of third party talk. Lots of articles on Fox News website about contested convention. Despite what you stated, I have seen nothing indicating any Democrat freaking out. It is only the Republicans freaking out and desperately finding a way to save this election in November. The Republicans no longer know who they are. Are they the traditional republicans? Are they the tea party? Are they the Christian values voters? Or are they the angry Trump voters that are voting for Trump because they are angry and no other reason? These are all different Republicans, and there isn't a single Republican candidate that will attract all of them. The Republicans may be turning up in the primaries trying beyond hope that their vision of the Republican party will win, mostly because they won't be able to support the other visions of their party. This is why the turnout in the primaries doesn't matter.

[Edited on 3/17/2016 by 2112]

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"Trump hasn't gotten 50% of the vote in a single state. That means that not even half of the voters in his own party like him"

A nonsense statement. When you have many candidates the votes get spread out but as they have dropped out Trumps take of the votes has steadily climbed.

Maybe, but the fact that he hasn't gotten 50% of the vote in any primary. And with the HUUUUUUGE turnout that you love to talk about, there are a lot of voters who voted against him. 😛

Or are they the angry Trump voters that are voting for Trump because they are angry and no other reason?

Are you angry? Shouldn't we all be angry?

I'm angry about interventionist conflicts and regime change policy around the world by Republican and Democrat administrations. Is Hillary going to change that? I'm angry that foreign countries and corporations are getting rich off our market at the expense of the US worker. Is Hillary going to change that?

Seems that Americans can be angry without having to identify with being a D or an R and establishment candidates, be it Clinton or Kasich are just going to bring us more of the same.

By the way, Thom Hartman says be careful what you wish for as he remembers back to 1980 and thinking that Regan was a gift for the Democrat party. Elections can be unpredictable.

Voters are dumping the Democratic Party in massive numbers. The DNC and their lapdogs in the liberal media are freaking out:

Democrats beware: Donald Trump is finding success well outside the Republican fringe

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0316-mcmanus-trump-rubio-florida-20160316-column.html

Yet Trump is behind Clinton in every single poll, even the ones by the right-wing polling organizations. Trump is a gift to the Democratic party. He will hand the presidency to Clinton, give the Democrats something to rally around, and will end up fracturing the Republican party.

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There are no creditable national polls at this point in the election cycle so your assumption is crap.

"fracturing the Republican party" - just more left-wing crap.
Voting is up 67% on the Republican primaries and most of those votes are going to Donald trump.

Ha ha.

Trump hasn't gotten 50% of the vote in a single state. That means that not even half of the voters in his own party like him. Sorry, he's not going to win.

Headlines on the Foxnews.com website - Republicans taking sides amid specter of third party talk. Lots of articles on Fox News website about contested convention. Despite what you stated, I have seen nothing indicating any Democrat freaking out. It is only the Republicans freaking out and desperately finding a way to save this election in November. The Republicans no longer know who they are. Are they the traditional republicans? Are they the tea party? Are they the Christian values voters? Or are they the angry Trump voters that are voting for Trump because they are angry and no other reason? These are all different Republicans, and there isn't a single Republican candidate that will attract all of them. The Republicans may be turning up in the primaries trying beyond hope that their vision of the Republican party will win, mostly because they won't be able to support the other visions of their party. This is why the turnout in the primaries doesn't matter.

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"Trump hasn't gotten 50% of the vote in a single state. That means that not even half of the voters in his own party like him"

A nonsense statement. When you have many candidates the votes get spread out but as they have dropped out Trumps take of the votes has steadily climbed.

Maybe, but the fact that he hasn't gotten 50% of the vote in any primary. And with the HUUUUUUGE turnout that you love to talk about, there are a lot of voters who voted against him. 😛

I voted for Cruz in the primary so Hillary will get my vote in November. Want to buy some swampland?