Politico: How the Harry Reid Machine May Have Killed Trump’s Chances

[Doctor Jack]

Amazing and shockingly blunt article from the normally wishy-washy politico. The bottom line is that if Harry Reid wants you (politically) dead you might as well just save some time and begin digging your own grave. His calm, quiet demeanor hides a brutal and ruthless man. Im just glad he is on our side

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The next day, Trump arrived in Reno looking like a dead man walking, railing at the scene in Vegas the night before and blaming “crazy, broken Harry Reid and his corrupt political machine.” Trump’s key ally in Nevada, state Republican Chairman Michael McDonald, preceded Trump on the Reno stage and yelled about allowing “a certain group” to vote until the late hours.

They raged, raged against the dying of their chances. Yet about one thing Trump was right: Harry Reid built this. After two years of boosting voter registration among key Democratic demographics, the retiring Senate minority leader has brought turnout among Hispanics in the state to record levels. In doing so, he’s almost surely delivered the state for Hillary Clinton—and possibly with it the presidential race (Trump has only the narrowest path to 270 electoral votes without Nevada). The reality of this election is that if Clinton wins, especially if she ends up needing Nevada, it’s not a stretch to declare that Reid was the single most important person in her victory.

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The Democrats have such a huge ballot lead in Clark County that Trump would have to win the rest of the state by unprecedented margins to win. Clark is about 70 percent of the vote, and if past is prologue, two-thirds of Nevadans voted before Election Day. There simply are not enough votes left for Trump to win unless something very, very strange is going on.

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The math simply does not work for Trump unless he gets an extraordinary Election Day turnout and wins Tuesday by double digits. That is about as likely as Chris Christie being named transportation secretary to help rebuild the country’s crumbling bridges.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/election-2016-nevada-harry-reid-clinton-trump-early-vote-latinos-214426

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. I don't really see the "brutal and ruthless" part,

but I agree that it's good he's on our side!

[Cha]

2. Thank you, Doctor Jack! Good on Harry~

[NBachers]

3. Fightin' Harry Reid is going out with a bang!

[Warren DeMontague]

4. “Looks like Trump got his wall after all. A wall of beautiful voters.”

[Hekate]

6. Harry Reid was a boxer in his younger days; he fights to win.

Harry gave the GOP and Trump hell -- and am I ever glad he's on our side!

[C Moon]

7. I don't think Trump stood any chance at all. Look at the way the GOP ditched him.

It was all a last ditch effort by the major media to make some of the $ they usually do in a presidential election.
Suddenly, the polls are jumping up 10% for Clinton—now they're trying to look like they had it right. Because they looked so fucking stupid after the 2012 results came in.

And while I'm at it, I notice all the negative poll dumping DU trolls have left the room.
Of course, they aren't posting positive polls now.
Good riddance.

[ffr]

9. Apart from the bravado, the key point left out of that article is that Nevada IS NOT there yet.

The machine is primed. Harry Reid's and Hillary's army is there, but unless the democratic voters come out in the numbers we have remaining, you can wipe your back side with all these rosy "We-Did-It" stories.

Nobody in Reid's operation talks like this. There's work still left undone.

The polls open in just over 24 hours. Time to get our rest. The hard part is yet to come.

Trump must go down in flames. And I'm going to be working to make sure that becomes reality. Only then do we make proclamations.

[Egnever]

10. This is what i have been saying all along

It is ironic now to recall the GOP strategists behind that Republican National Committee autopsy in 2012, whose main exhortation was to reach out to minority voters lest another election be lost. As if in answer to that, GOP primary voters nominated the antithesis of its prescription.

That 2012 report was disturbingly honest from a Republican perspective. They laid out what needed to happen for them to be competitive nationally and Trump did almost exactly the opposite. This was doomed from the start.

[hlthe2b]

12. Like many (most?) DUers, I've had a few issues with Reid at times...

BUT....what a way to go out, sir. I doff my hat to you and thanks.

[Demsrule86]

13. Great article!

Thanks!