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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI Guess He Doesn't Need that Guy After All
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/13/1547825/-I-Guess-He-Doesn-t-Need-that-Guy-After-AllBy Crashing Vor
The country was briefly shocked last month when Himself invited his rally crowd to Look at my African-American! The shock turned to laughter when a poll at months end showed Trump only had one African-American to point to. One percent, that is.
I guess when youre down to one percent of any voting bloc, you get to an Oh, well, why bother? stage, as evidenced by Himselfs statements this week.
On Monday, as politicians as ideologically distanced as Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich were offering thoughtful observations on the relations between minority citizens and police, Himself decided to go full Nixon, proclaiming Himself the law and order candidate and predicting to the AP that the horror of Dallas might just be the beginning for this summer.
In the same interview, when asked if he agreed with Rudy Giuliani that When you say black lives matter, thats inherently racist, Himself didnt exactly disagree.
A lot of people agree with that. A lot of people feel that it is inherently racist. And its a very divisive term.
Himselfs upset grew as Tuesday wore on. In the evening, he told Bill OReilly of his outrage at people, like cheering New Jerseyans on 9/11, calling for moments of silence for the Dallas murderer.
It all got to be too much for Himself, who announced later in the evening that he wouldnt be attending the NAACP convention, because it was the day before his own big party.
Whether the problem is that Trump Force One cant make a Cincinnati to Cleveland run in less than 24 hours or some aide decided the risk of Himself pulling a Perot was too great, its clear that this campaign is out to mark yet another first.
Contrary to all predictions from scholars and pundits, it really is possible for a modern campaign, fueled by television and social media, to corner zero percent of a significant voting bloc.
Were rooting for you, sir!
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I Guess He Doesn't Need that Guy After All (Original Post)
MrWendel
Jul 2016
OP
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)1. He is playing a dangerous game.
The POC vote is lost to him. However the last thing a lot of moderate whites want to think about themselves is that they are racists and they will recoil from him.
Clinton has to exploit that phenomenon. Trump owns the white nationalists
MrWendel
(1,881 posts)2. Was it Rachel...
last night that said that he's losing big to White educated, and even bigger to educated in general?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)3. Reminds me of what was said about Reagan.
He had to thread the needle. He was never going to get a lot of POC votes but he needed to be careful, lest he tainted by the racist stink, that turns off moderate whites who the last thing they want to think about themselves is that they are racist.
Nixon had to thread the needle too...
Trump doesn't seem to give a rip.