Herman Cain explains Trump's appeal. It's a good article:

http://canadafreepress.com/article/77756

I wonder if showpro drinks Dos Equis?

After all he lives with the mega rich guys so why not.

showpro, you need to learn to take a hint, and since you didn't in this situation:

I have had it with your whining about Donald Trump. You and the American news media, both - you need to get it through your head that no one cares about the stuff you're telling us. Really. No one cares. The stuff you're trying to tell us about how Trump is not what he seems and all that- no one cares. Figure it out.

In all threads, you will kindly cut out the incessant complaining about Donald Trump. It became boring quite some time ago. The next stop beyond Boredom is Annoyance, and you are rapidly approaching that stop on the trip. Fair warning.

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Originally posted by justjoe:
Herman Cain explains Trump's appeal. It's a good article:

http://canadafreepress.com/article/77756

Great article. Thanks.

RMD

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Originally posted by parabellum:
showpro, you need to learn to take a hint, and since you didn't in this situation:

I have had it with your whining about Donald Trump. You and the American news media, both - you need to get it through your head that no one cares about the stuff you're telling us. Really. No one cares. The stuff you're trying to tell us about how Trump is not what he seems and all that- no one cares. Figure it out.

In all threads, you will kindly cut out the incessant complaining about Donald Trump. It became boring quite some time ago. The next stop beyond Boredom is Annoyance, and you are rapidly approaching that stop on the trip. Fair warning.

Sure, no problem. I was called out in this thread, I didn't seek to post in it, just responded, and conversation ensued.

What do you mean you were called out? How many posts have you made in this and other threads, bitching nonstop about Donald Trump? You're certainly being called out a lot.

Well, one other thread, the Franklin Graham one. And then another member cut a quote from me in that thread and pasted it into this one. On this page, I think.

I don't recall commenting in other threads than those two. I did post earlier in this thread saying that I though the hubbub about "schlonged" was ridiculous.

That's all I remember.

Don't try to put this on anyone else. You earned my attention, all on your own.

I think that kids should be left out of political campaigns.

he's getting minority support. let's see if more than one poll shows this, in which case, it might be "game over"


BREAKING POLL: 40% of Blacks Line Up Behind Trump – 45% of Hispanics

Jim Hoft Dec 29th, 2015 8:42 am 7 Comments

A SurveyUSA poll released in September showed that 25% of black respondents said they would vote for Trump over Clinton.

According to The American Mirror Trump would more than double the best result for a Republican in modern American history.

Looking at the last 10 presidential election cycles, the highest black vote share for a Republican was 12% for Bob Dole in 1996.

Now there’s even better news for Trump.

40% of black voters and 45% of Hispanic voters support Donald Trump. If these numbers hold up Donald Trump would win the 2016 election in a landslide.

World Net Daily reported:

Pundits might point to billionaire Donald Trump’s huge lead in the GOP presidential primary race as being the result of his generally anti-Washington, anti-government, anti-establishment, anti-politically correct attitude.

If so, it’s not just whites who are ticked at the bureaucracy, but minorities too.

Because a new poll, which still has Trump leading the race, shows 40 percent of blacks are lining up behind Trump, as are 45 percent of Hispanics, and even nearly 19 percent of Asians.

Blacks and Hispanics, in fact, even support Trump at a higher level than whites.

The results are from a new WND/Clout poll by Clout Research, a national opinion research firm in Columbus, Ohio. The telephone survey of registered voters was taken Dec. 18-27, except for the holiday, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.35 percentage points.

After Obama, Americans are yearning for a leader who loves America, for a change.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.co...ump-45-of-hispanics/


edit - seems this poll was pretty small sample - looks to be 450 total polled, which seems paltry.

I get to chat with a diverse group of folks at work. Ethniclly, racially, sexually. With the exception of the hardcore LGBT crowd, he seems to have support. As one woman (African American, middle age, single Mom) told me, "He knows how to make money and jobs and thats what this Country needs."

What Ive caught a glimmer of these past few months (especially after San Bernadino) is folks (white, black, hispanic, you name it) are just looking at eachother...not as "different" but as all in one big group and saying "We're ALL getting fucked!" The media and the Pols like to fan the differences and highlight the extremes, but there are alot of plain old folks who have just about had enough.

I hope what I am seeing is true and not wishful imagination.

If you're a Trump fan you better hope all these people know how to vote in the primaries.

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Originally posted by entropy:
I get to chat with a diverse group of folks at work. Ethniclly, racially, sexually. With the exception of the hardcore LGBT crowd, he seems to have support. As one woman (African American, middle age, single Mom) told me, "He knows how to make money and jobs and thats what this Country needs."

What Ive caught a glimmer of these past few months (especially after San Bernadino) is folks (white, black, hispanic, you name it) are just looking at eachother...not as "different" but as all in one big group and saying "We're ALL getting fucked!" The media and the Pols like to fan the differences and highlight the extremes, but there are alot of plain old folks who have just about had enough.

I hope what I am seeing is true and not wishful imagination.

That makes two of us.
The communist totalitarian state has a lot of machinery in place-- for the "free shit" crowd-- and that, I think, will be the biggest challenge for Trump to overcome. Hillary will be riding that horse hard, whipping the shit out of it. There will be more "free _____" (you name it) than you can imagine. To be paid for by "the rich." (Like she and all her cronies in DC are not rich and super rich.) Trump, as you said, appeals to people who want the economy to turn around, but these are people who want to actually work.

I think Trump and with Cruz as VP would definately be a winning ticket.

The other thing that he appeals to (been said a million times) is that he is not a politician. Or at least he doesnt talk like one. I dont think most decent blacks, hispanics, asians, whatever really care that he's a white guy. Just like I could care less that Ben Carson, or Herman Cain is black. Its what he's saying, how he's saying it, and the PERSONA around him that matters. The guy is a showboat, no doubt. But like it or not, the past 8 years has turned POTUS into a showboat. The left and progressives did this to gin up their ignorant base, but it spilled over into the social domain now. I don't think they accounted for that, being the genious they are.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...le.html?intcmp=hpbt1

Donald Trump has managed to draw Hillary Clinton into a war of words which could serve to elevate his standing even more in advance of February’s lead-off nominating contests.

The back-and-forth started with the GOP front-runner using off-color language to describe Clinton’s 2008 defeat at the hands of then-Sen. Barack Obama, and eventually escalated to charges of sexism on both sides -- and most recently, a battery of insults from Trump during a New Hampshire rally Monday night.

“I’m telling you this very strongly. First of all, she has committed a criminal act…. What she did with the emails was criminal,” Trump told supporters in Nashua, N.H. Summing up the Benghazi scandal, Trump charged that Clinton was “too lazy to answer phone calls.”

While Clinton for weeks has been able to quietly run her own campaign while watching Trump and other GOP candidates attack each other, Trump’s renewed focus on Clinton has brought her into the fray.

To an extent, the exchanges could be playing into Trump's master plan, by establishing him as Clinton’s chief rival.

Fox News contributor and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said these attacks from the billionaire businessman are aimed at the Republican nominating process.

“By taking her on as the foil, he plays the presumptive Republican nominee,” Krauthammer said on Fox News’ “Special Report.” “He elevates himself above all the others. He’s been shooting at all the others for six months, and now he says 'I’m done, I’ve been able to knock ‘em all down'.”

Krauthammer said Trump is trying to prepare the country for him to be the GOP’s “standard-bearer.”

The dispute heated up recently after Trump said Clinton got “schlonged” by Obama in 2008. Clinton, in response, told a newspaper Trump has a “penchant for sexism.” Trump and his team then fired back at both Bill and Hillary Clinton, seizing on Clinton campaign plans to bring the former president out on the campaign trail starting next week.

Trump tweeted over the weekend: “Hillary Clinton has announced that she is letting her husband out to campaign but HE'S DEMONSTRATED A PENCHANT FOR SEXISM, so inappropriate!”

He tweeted overnight that “Bill Clinton was brought in to help Hillary against Obama in 2008. He was terrible, failed badly, and was called a racist!”

Clinton’s campaign directly responded Monday night to Trump’s latest attacks, with spokeswoman Christina Reynolds blasting the candidate in a statement and fundraising email.

“Donald Trump's words are demeaning, his policies are just as destructive. Hillary Clinton will challenge Donald Trump and all the other Republicans who will rip away the progress we've made,” she said in the statement

In the fundraising message, she said: “It’s one thing for him to go after Hillary and Bill Clinton -- they can take it. It’s another thing for him to attack huge swaths of the American people and an entire religion, like women (whom he’s called "pigs" and "dogs"), Mexican immigrants (who he thinks are criminals and rapists), and Muslims, at a time when we need them to help fight ISIS and other extremists.”

While the Trump-Clinton clash could point to an effort by Trump to shed his GOP competition, Christopher C. Hull, president of D.C.-based public affairs firm Issue Management, Inc., downplayed any long-term strategy. He said the fight probably stems more from Clinton making the questionable claim in the last debate that ISIS was using videos of Trump statements to recruit.

“That was the opening Trump needed,” Hull said. “He understands leverage and he understands opportunities.”

Hull, author of “Grassroots Rules,” a book on presidential primary politics, called Trump an “equal opportunity critic” and suggested he’ll continue to take on both Clinton and his GOP rivals ahead of the Iowa caucuses.

The feud comes as polls show Trump running competitively with Clinton in head-to-head match-ups.

A Rasmussen Reports poll showed 37 percent of likely voters would back Clinton, as opposed to 36 percent for Trump. The poll of 1,000 likely voters was conducted Dec. 22-23 and had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

Still, other Republican candidates like Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz do slightly better in most head-to-head match-ups against Clinton. Trump is actively trying to battle the narrative that Clinton and the Democrats want to go up against Trump in the general election – and dismissed those claims during his New Hampshire rally on Monday.

Speaking with Fox News, fellow Republican candidate Carly Fiorina agreed with Trump that Bill Clinton is fair game for Republicans. But she added, “You’re not going to beat Hillary Clinton by attacking Bill Clinton. You’re going to beat Hillary Clinton -- I’m going to beat Hillary Clinton -- by attacking her track record and her lack of trustworthiness.”

The year of the "anti-political" vote. The masses want someone who is not a politician. like a snowball gathering mass going downhill.

If Trump somehow wins the primaries, and there is no UFO (unforeseen occurrence), it will be fun to watch a no holds barred fight. Its barely touched the surface, and Trump is already at Hillary's throat as a liar. That's fun.

Trump is the ultimate con-artist. He makes people confidant in what he says - how he performs is another issue. But for the show they call politics, it doesn't matter one whit. At least its not boring. Scary, but not boring. Maybe he will pick a good VP, and who knows....

I'm gonna start calling him "Teflon Don" because nothing they toss sticks. In fact, he catches it and throws it right back.

If the Country is gonna go down the drain, at least the Average Joe that created it can sit back, crack a beer and watch the show no?