2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNow that we know Trump's campaign strategy, who among us is going to fall for it?
Monica Landley of the WSJ told Andrea Mitchell that Trump has a two-fold strategy to win:
1. Trump's strategy is to keep pounding away at Hillary with the Bill Clinton claims to make Dems so disgusted and demoralized that they won't show up and vote.
2. He's betting that the Blacks (as he refers to us) and the millennials will be so demoralized with the continued Wikileaks and Bill Clinton that they will stay home and not vote. (Genius pure Genius)
So who among us here will fall for that Genius' strategy. I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't wait to vote, and encourage anyone and everyone else to vote early if possible. I want Trump's loss to be historical, and the only thing he'll be remembered for is the fool that he is and how badly he lost.
The only thing that I'm upset about is that I haven't received my absentee ballot yet. (My husband and I requested ours online it'll be three weeks ago this Friday). We will be away from our home in California on election day awaiting the birth of my daughter's first baby, (our 5th grandchild) in Georgia. We will be leaving in 12 days and I had expected my ballot to have come by now. If I don't receive it by the end of this week, my husband and I will have to travel the two hours to the County Elections Board office. Didn't want to have to make that long trip, but I will.
Now that Georgia is in play, I plan to volunteer for Hillary GOTV there in Georgia while we await the birth. It will keep us busy.
Foggyhill
(1,060 posts)He does realize who he is doesn't he?
If he's coordinating with WikiLeaks and hackers that's illegal and another brick in wall of shit
Wikileaks ans Assange has taken a hit with all the fabrication and Assange hating Hrc public ally and being a rapist
All around losing strategies
calguy
(5,344 posts)vi5
(13,305 posts)What Trump fails to understand is that Bill Clinton was able to ride out his scandals and still maintain his popularity because 1) He was a charming, likable guy and 2) He actually did do a lot for many of the groups that a case could be made that he may have hurt with his actions, namely women.
Trump is neither likable, nor charming and he's advocating policies which will actively hurt the lives of women.
I am in no way saying that President Clinton was or is always in the right, or that anything excuses some of his behavior. Just that if that is the calculation Trump is going to try and use to win over the public then he's calculated this all wrong.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)Massive vote-registration purging across a dozen states, focused on the impoverished. They will try to explain it away as voter demoralization, but we'll all know what they did.
The amusing part of it is that since so many right-wingers sat out the 2012 election, and so many Republican voters have sunk into poverty since 2008, I expect many of them to be caught up in the purge, and of course they'll be the first ones to bring guns back to the polling places. So we could wind up with a situation in which Republican voters are threatening the Republican cagers and the Republican poll workers. A circular firing squad, which appears to be an area of Republican expertise now.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/do-voter-purges-discriminate-against-poor-minorities-n636586
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)The quarterback sneak.
Even though it fails again and again and again, he thinks it will work next time if he's just... sneakier.