It’s Too Early for Liberals to Gloat About Trump - By Michael Tomasky
Trump could calm down, Hillary could stumble, and who knows what nasty surprise Putin could uncork in October. In this election, all we know is that there is no sure thing.As I commit these words to screen, Nate Silver has Hillary Clinton at 77 percent likely to win the White House. She’s cruising toward 330-plus electoral votes. And as for Donald Trump, they haven’t invented a word for how bad his week has been. And that was before we learned he’s married to an illegal immigrant. It’s a good week to gloat if you’re a liberal, but gloat weeks are exactly the weeks that make me a little nervous. Three reasons:
First, every week isn’t going to be like this week. Life just doesn’t work that way. Trump will have weeks when he’ll calm down a little. He’ll always be obnoxious, of course, but he won’t always launch gratuitous attacks on the infant-American community. I know we all agree now that Trump can’t help himself. But I continue to suspect that there may come a time when he can help himself, and he’ll spend October comporting himself like Atticus Finch. In addition to this, Clinton will surely have her own bad weeks. She’ll say something off-key, make a big blunder. Maybe someone will find an email from her saying, “Hey, here’s an idea, let’s pay Iran ransom money!” (More seriously, given her generally tough-minded foreign-policy posture, it seems to me just as likely that they’ll find an email in which she raised concerns about paying Iran this 40-year-old debt.) And finally, who knows what Putin is holding back for an October Surprise? I’m not really joking about that, alas.
Second, even with Clinton’s convention bounce and Khan bounce, this thing is still closer than it should be, reflecting the reality that one-third of America thinks she belongs behind bars and a significant portion of the middle third kinda-sorta agrees (the third third, of course, is in Clinton’s corner). And there isn’t much Clinton can do to change that unless she rescues a falling baby or something. In addition, Clinton hatred will really rev up by October, and I assume that the TV ads from the anti-Clinton PACs will be numerous and brutal.
Third, there’s one way at least in which the Trump campaign has finally normalized. It raised more than $80 million in July, almost as much as Clinton. Now, the question is, what in the world is he going to spend it on? He doesn’t really need to buy television ads. He gets 50 of those every day for free.
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ArtieBoy Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-04 01:43 AM
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Election 2004 = Cakewalk. Relax.
My post is a post of optimism and hope, because there are two Americas. One is the Bush America, right? Where everybody loves Bush and he could never be beaten. Then there's the other America, the one where you and I live. And where about 75% of America lives, according to a recent poll.
In the REAL America, Bush has engaged us in a war for weapons of mass destruction that his own inspector and Secretary of State now say never existed. He's taken us from a budget surplus to a deficit in the hundreds of billions. He's spent billions to launch us to Mars when here in Atlanta they're increasing taxes 120% to save the water system. His number one propagandist is up on illegal drug charges, and my mom said even Rush was bashing Bush today about sending us to Mars while we have a deficit! And his constituency is scratching their heads over this illegal immigration plan.
So in conclusion I would like to say that we're wringing our hands for nothing. I get the feeling we could run a mossy rock and win against Bush this time. And we're gonna beat him, and we'll beat him again, and we'll beat him again! That's what we're gonna do! That's what you and I will do together!
:toast"
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No offense intended to DU'er ArtieBoy. Most of us were still feeling that way the day before the presidential election in November 2004. We can't ease up or take anything for granted. The Repukes will crawl through hell and/or high water to vote. They will lie, cheat, and steal. The only thing that matters to them is beating Democrats. Relax for a single minute, stay home and pout instead of voting, and we wind up with President Trump.
My eye has stopped twitching since numbers changed to their benefit ....... 
There are 3 more months and I hear negative comments from some people around me ( brother and sister in law , a friend ) then the concern starts for election day . Main reason I joined this year , have lurked off and on for a few years
