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Another example--in August of 2011 Romney spent most of the month in second place behind Rick Perry, but he was still at 16-18% to Perry's 22-24%.
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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Here's a weird one--the 2008 Republican primary frontrunner in August of 2007 was the cousin-fucker himself, Rudi Giulani. He was hovering in the high 20s, Thompson was second, and McCain was third at just about 15%. Giulani is briefly overtaken by Huckabee after the later won the Iowa caucus, where McCain came in fourth. But McCain then won New Hampshire and by the end of January almost all the other candidates have dropped out an endorsed him.
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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Peeps wrote:
i for one would vote for yang if he did a commercial called yangum style
I would seriously consider becoming a monk.
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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
If that is accurate as of now, I'd be curious to see if it still holds once his opponent is known and any of his ratfuckers get to work on slamming that opponent.
If McConnell were up for reelection today, 37 percent of respondents said they would vote for the Kentucky Republican. Another 44 percent would instead choose a Democratic opponent, according to the survey.
He's only down seven points on this and he absolutely has a war chest. People might not approve of him in a general sense but once his campaign ads start running endlessly I suspect it'll be a lot tighter.
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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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I can't believe we live in a world where Elizabeth Warren ISN'T the slam dunk candidate.
At this point I'd say she will be before the end of the year. It's certainly shaping up that way with her being the only real contender with Biden. At this point it's about making yourself a national name, and she seems to be doing a good job of that with her debate performances. And this is by no means any sort of slight on her, I'm just pointing out that I think there will be A LOT of people come general election time who, if only for the most superficial of reasons like her haircut and pant suits, view her as Hillary Part 2. In fact I can almost guarantee that if she gets the nomination, that will be Trump's strategy against her. It's sad, but given that it's not a "slam dunk" to a majority of Americans that Donald Trump isn't the embodiment of a dumpster full of old tires on fire, I'm not holding out too much hope that people are going to become intelligent, thoughtful, and not prone to schoolyard taunts when selecting their next president.
Elizabeth Warren needs to unite the entire party and generate so much enthusiasm that people can't wait to vote, because that's for sure what will be coming from Trump's people. A begrudging Democratic base, upset because their guy or gal didn't get the nod, isn't going to win the election.
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I think Warren understands that Hillary's rather passive campaign was the failure, so she'll be much more aggressive.
She's also an establishment-approved version of Sanders, so she might siphon off a lot of his votes since she'll have backing from the media and party officials.
We could see a major revolt of Democrat voters who will back Sanders no matter what, but I think Trump has shell shocked too many democrats to keep them from veering too far from safety. So that favors Warren.
I think the Democrats can win this election with almost any candidate. I don't think the candidate needs to be moderate to appeal to the middle or a radical leftist to appeal to young people or a woman or a minority or a white guy or anything else. The person simply has to be not Trump. Now, certain candidates will be more problematic than others and could potentially blow it, and some candidates will probably help Trump rally a frenzied base more than others but this is absolutely the Democrats' election to lose. I think everybody is still traumatized by 2016 so much that they need to embrace the underdog story/not be overconfident/try to mentally prepare themselves for 4 more years of this, but so much information we have suggests Trump is in trouble.
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