Paul Krugman: The real reason Clinton is winning is not what the pundits tell you

[still_one]

"It’s not exactly a secret that Paul Krugman has been a Hillary Clinton supporter in this election. On Friday, the columnist examines what her strong debate performances and now apparent large lead reveal about her, and dispels what he sees as the fiction that she is a “terrible candidate.”

If she’s such a terrible candidate, Krugman wonders, how did she pummel Trump in all three televised debates, using strategies that looked even smarter in the days after, and now lengthened her lead so substantially? “The usual suspects are already coalescing around an answer,” Krugman writes, “namely, that she just got lucky. If only the Republicans hadn’t nominated Donald Trump, the story goes, she’d be losing badly.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/paul-krugman-the-real-reason-clinton-is-winning-is-not-what-the-pundits-tell-you/

[uponit7771]

1. Accomplishments of the "others" will forever be minimized

[shenmue]

2. Yes

[emulatorloo]

3. She would have mopped the floor w any of them

For example During the Rep primaries, Christie said Clinton would pat Marco on the head and then rip his heart out.

[Fast Walker 52]

4. she's smart, learned her lessons from 2008, and has the Dem party behind her

generally a successful strategy for any candidate

[AgadorSparticus]

5. They can't deny her brilliance. That is why they are hung up on her being a bitch.

One thing this election has painstakingly made clear is that America is deeply rascist and mysogynistic.

[bettyellen]

12. Yeah, we saw it in the primaries too. So many Dems accepting the RW frames it astounded me.

[RDANGELO]

6. Honestly

Most people understand Trump to be a disgusting individual.

[vlyons]

7. Republicans are too stupid to understand that ...

the majority of voters are not attracted to what the GOP has to offer. Consider the main talking points of just about every GOP candidate for every office. 1 Cut taxes, 2 Minimize gov't, 3 cut/eliminate welfare, 4 kill Obamacare,
5 outlaw abortions, 6 allow easy unlimited access to guns, 7 outlaw gay marriage, 8 divert public taxes to fund private charter schools, 9 no regulations on business, 10 punish illegal immigrants.

I may have left out a few, but that's all I hear Republicans talk about. They never support raising the minimum wage, an infrastructure jobs bill, increase funding for public education, equal pay for women. Republicans basically have nothing to offer to improve the lives of working people. And thanks to Donald Trump, more Americans have seen the cowardice and hypocracy of those elected officials supporting Trump. Republicans got nothing!

[MyOwnPeace]

9. Those are...........

GREAT points - both lists, too!
Think about it: When is the last time you heard a PUG talk about any of these subjects:
*support raising the minimum wage
*an infrastructure jobs bill
*increase funding for public education
*equal pay for women

AND, which of those would provide something for the "blue collar" workers - you know, the "TRUMPSTERS!"

Thanks again!

[raging moderate]

14. PLUS they want to cut taxes mostly for the rich!

Which would inevitably raise taxes for the rest of us. And they want to convert social security into a privatized retirement account scheme. Which would inevitably give them a chance to keep payroll taxes in place and just send those funds to general revenue uses.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. When folks take a look at their Family

situation,they will punch the Hillary button on the Voting Machine. Heard this while standing in line waiting to vote yesterday. And we know people vote against their best interest,but am thinking the worm has done a 180.

[Recursion]

11. Despite all the media gaslighting, she's winning because she gets the support of poor people

Trump is being pretty solidly rejected by every economic quintile except the 2nd one (people making about $70K-$100K or so) -- that's his core of support; Clinton is winning over the other 4 quintiles pretty handily.

[downeastdaniel]

13. Hillary is in the lead because of people of color and women...oh yeah.

[Cha]

15. Thank you, Paul Krugman.. telling it like it is!

Hillary's a brilliant candidate.. it's just apparently not as obvious to some people who rely only on horserace pundits.

yeah, but the repubs did nominate drumpf as their best candidate and it doesn't matter who they WOULD have nominated I bet Hillary would have beat them, too.

Maybe by not as much as an admitted sexual predator but the Hillary hate machine would still have lost.

Mahalo, still one!