Trump Talk™

I read today that they are attacking the 14th Amendment. Wow. Yuck.

Assuming a diverse voter turnout like in 2008 and 2012, Trump will have his work cut out for him. That poll shows him doing well with men and whites. Trump will lose women and Hispanics by a large margin, larger than Romney for sure. He will also lose blacks. You have to consider Hillary still as the reasonable favorite.

Still, nothing is impossible. I'm shocked to say this but he looks like he really is the favorite to win the GOP nomination. I thought about this and arrived at a conclusion- in a contest where being the alpha male is so highly prized, Trump is making the rest of the GOP field look weak. You cannot scream louder than him. You cannot be as grandiose as him. The media is drawn to him; he gets the most coverage by far. A guy like Chris Christie, who is supposed to be a tough guy, looks timid next to Donald Trump. Jeb Bush is a milquetoast, and Rubio is a child. And Trump's wealth is on the same playing field as the major Republican backers. You can't buy him, and you don't bribe him with a Fox pundit job or any other trifles- he's already a major celebrity and has been for over three decades.

Hillary doesn't have Bill or Barack's gigawatt charisma. She's a master of double-speak and say-nothing. Trump is more charismatic and possibly more likeable. He's certainly far more plain-spoken. It's not impossible for him to win. And he was a Democrat for a long time. Perhaps he could reach across the aisle on certain issues?

Birthright citizenship has got to end!

Says someone who has birthright citizenship...

I suppose, but I have the proper kind as well (extending to my grandparents who immigrated here legally).

Trump's support in a nutshell is that he is perceived as entirely outside or above the broken political establishment, and therefore not bound to the rules of the game.

He taps into the people who are sick of voting in people to Washington who turn around and sell out the voters that brought them. This at the moment applies to conservatives who have been screwed over from the midterms when they elected officials who didn't fulfill their campaign promises. In the general election he could appeal to pretty much anyone who barely pays attention but generally thinks Washington is broken. Especially when you pit him against a Joe Biden. Hillary Clinton, or other liberal who is essentially a career politician with strong ties to the current administration.

I don't know how that aspect of him (he's a powerful genuine outsider) is going to be dispelled by Clinton or Biden. What are they going to say, 'you can trust me more than him'? I mean in the end he could be lying, he could be posturing, and he could be fake, but there is no way he could appear more fake than his opponent.

He taps into the people who are sick of voting in people to Washington who turn around and sell out the voters that brought them.

You actually make good points here. There are disgruntled voters on both sides of the aisle, and among swing voters. Anything is possible in a climate where many voters believe that the system is fundamentally broken. I just don't think there are enough of those voters to swing a general election in Trump's favor, but we also don't know his proposed policies. He could be quite moderate on issues other than immigration.

I do want to point out some irony:

Who's doing the buying? Trump is one of the buyers. And now he's going to change the system?

So, the problem isn't birthright citizenship, it's illegal immigration. Anchor babies are like voter fraud, basically non-existent. It doesn't really matter, though, it takes a 3/4 vote in both houses of congress and all the statehouses to repeal an amendment, so it's not going to happen.

Once in awhile Yahoo commenters make a good point. That is Trump is getting free press. The media obsession with trying to make him look bad is actually just giving him tons of free press. You could make the case for the saying any press is good press, but this goes beyond that. All Trump has to do is exist, and bam, free press where he can say something crazy or say something rational. He doesn't have to spend a dime to make himself heard now and won't for quite some time.

This may have been apart of his strategy all along.

"I'm not a career politician and not only do I know how broke this system is, I've actively abused it and am your best chance at fixing it".

Yeah, that's definitely an interesting strategy he's going for there.

Funny thing is though, after this whole thing is over and he winds up not getting the nomination, nothing will have changed in regards to him being able to abuse the system.

People love the status-quo and money. He'll just go back to buying favors, and politicians will be more than willing to sell to him. It's not like he's risking anything by running with that platform.

I should have said if he winds up not getting the nomination.

Country slept through 12 years of Bush. Par for the course there!

A lot of people fall asleep after bush.

I so hope he does.

Or if he doesn't he pulls the third party Samson in the temple bit and Bernie wins.

Deez Nuts is polling at 9%, all of that support is pulled away from Hillary. When the Democrats depend on rounding up fools to vote for them, they better hope that they don't get distracted.

Wait... 9% of those polled gave support for Deez Nuts in the Republican primary and that's taking votes away from Hillary, how? I'm all for taking votes away from Hillary, but this leap in logic makes no sense whatsoever.

I thought Deez Nuts was running as an independent. So, he should be taking votes away from both parties, shouldn't he?

To say that "all of the support was pulled away from Hillary" is just making ***up, obviously.