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2016 Postmortem

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2. This author missed that Trump did not win a majority in the primary either

Reply to Garrett78 (Original post)

Fri Jan 6, 2017, 01:49 PM

Jan 2017

He won some early states with 20-25%. Of course this was framed as him "beating 16 other candidates" (there were at most 10 viable candidates in their primaries) when actually he won in a diluted field. He went out and got a core of racist hateful white men who often don't vote but they came out for him.

It all still comes down to airtime. Even in the primaries his events were continually broadcast. You simply can't beat that kind of advertising. Cruz actually mentioned the $2B estimate but it was ignored by the news - Trump and his wrestling match like events were great for ratings.

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Did Trump actually do better than Rubio or Bush or Cruz or Kasich would have done? [View all] Garrett78 Jan 2017 OP

He was openly racist and bigoted so that created a lot of enthusiasm in the repuke party. libtodeath Jan 2017 #1

And because his appeal is so cult-like, so visceral, cultural rather than economic... Garrett78 Jan 2017 #4

This author missed that Trump did not win a majority in the primary either underpants Jan 2017 #2

I didn't miss any such thing. He didn't win a majority in the general either. Garrett78 Jan 2017 #3

In my opinion Jeb would have lost to Hillary. ... spin Jan 2017 #5

The establishment did very well, overall. Garrett78 Jan 2017 #6

I have to agree with that. ... spin Jan 2017 #7

Of course. Did anyone truly doubt that Donald J Trump would be extremely WS-friendly?!? Garrett78 Jan 2017 #10

No. He did worse then any of the others would have done. bowens43 Jan 2017 #8

Sanity doesn't hold as much appeal with the GOP electorate as it does for you and me. Garrett78 Jan 2017 #9

Kudos for this thread. classof56 Jan 2017 #11