It's funny how Democrats (and Hillary) seem to forget the stark contrast with the two campaigns. Hillary had the least energetic campaign in ages. She made Bob Dole seem like some spunky teenager. Trump is running all over the country rallying up huge crowds, while she can't even be bothered to visit half the swing states, instead choosing to mill around California and New York doing fundraisers to run more commercials.
Think of the most negative images of each. Trump is talking about grabbing pussy and her handlers are scooping her off the sidewalk like a dead animal. Like it or not, Trump appeared to be a man in charge and she looked like a puppet. On the positive side, Hillary is playing up race and sex to get applause, and Trump is talking about making the average guy's life better.
Indeed. Clinton ran one of the worst possible campaigns and rightly got defeated. It's a shame that we got Trump due to her incompetence (and the Democratic Party's rigging of the primary).
It's a shame that so many people (Clinton supports) don't understand how Trump actually won, and instead chock it up to "racism." Utterly lacking nuance.
Trying to boil down the question of "how Trump won" to one or two points is stupid. It was a perfect wave of a hundred factors. Racism was one of them, but the left is completely unhinged in their assessment of how much it was.
Headhunter wrote:Trying to boil down the question of "how Trump won" to one or two points is stupid. It was a perfect wave of a hundred factors. Racism was one of them, but the left is completely unhinged in their assessment of how much it was.
Comparatively, would you say Obama's vicories were more the result of racism than Trump's? Logic being that blacks were energized by Obama in a way they never had been and voted for him in absurd numbers that were not seen before him, at mid-terms, or after him.
Trump pulled more minorities than McCain or Romney.
Headhunter wrote:Trying to boil down the question of "how Trump won" to one or two points is stupid. It was a perfect wave of a hundred factors. Racism was one of them, but the left is completely unhinged in their assessment of how much it was.
Comparatively, would you say Obama's vicories were more the result of racism than Trump's? Logic being that blacks were energized by Obama in a way they never had been and voted for him in absurd numbers that were not seen before him, at mid-terms, or after him.
Trump pulled more minorities than McCain or Romney.
No. Not comparable in any way. And we've talked about these false equivalencies at length already, so I don't know what you're getting at. My view hasn't changed since August.
And if you really read my posts here as you claimed from atop the high horse a while back, you'd remember when I split with Seb on the issue of who can be agents of racism. In the future you should try to read every post in search of new information and enlightenment.