Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Monday, March 7, 2016
Trump is deliberately not countering opposition TV ads on TV, using Facebook and Twitter instead: Huge mistake?
He's also using ads during conservative talk radio programs, but overall his is a very risky strategy which may already explain why Trump is not farther ahead than he should be.
This may spell big trouble, dead ahead.
Facebook and Twitter require active participation. Television is passive and reaches more people. Facebook is ubiquitous but the irony is the owner is the big player behind the amnesty enemy. And Twitter is a sewer dominated by the thug left. They'll never vote for him anyway. At best he communicates effectively only with those who already support him.
Trump is proud of winning on a dime against losers like Bush who spent millions, but I don't think the strategy is sustainable.
This is crunch time, and Trump's not crunching.
Trump still has a big problem on H-1B flip-flop, appearance on Savage Nation today did nothing to assuage fears he's just telling people what they want to hear
Sympathetic critics like Laura Ingraham are exactly right that the time has long since passed for Trump to stop winging it, show more discipline, and spend some money on TV ads.
We're voting for him in Michigan tomorrow, but I predict Trump is going to disappoint us going forward even more than he already has.
It's almost as if he's prepared to hand this thing over to Ted Cruz, who doesn't give a fig for anything but himself.
One way or another, we're going to get the government we deserve, good and hard.
From the story here:
"Furious supporters of Donald Trump . . . are now FORMER supporters of Trump".
Mark Steyn gives Kathy Shaidle a mention on the Rush Limbaugh Show
Quotes her hoping that Trump doesn't turn out like that other Austrian . . ..
The remaining candidates' wives
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| Jeanette Rubio |
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| Karen Kasich |
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| Heidi Cruz |
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| Melania Trump |
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| Jane O'Meara Sanders |
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| Mr. Hillary Clinton |
Does Mark Steyn actually oppose Donald Trump?
It seems so.
He just said in the opener today that Trump needs 58% of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination, which to Steyn appears to be too difficult to accomplish.
This just isn't so.
Trump needs 53.6% of the remaining, the least of all the candidates and close to his level of support through Super Tuesday.
That's 853 delegates, after Rubio won Puerto Rico yesterday, out of 1592 remaining.
Cruz needs 937, which is 58.9% of the remaining.
Steyn appears to have Cruz mixed up with Trump.
Was that on purpose?
Michigan Republicans boo Romney the "loser", call for his deportation
Byron York reports here:
Trump instinctively sensed that he could bash Romney in Romney's home state with no consequences at all. "This guy Romney came out yesterday," Trump began, which brought on lots and lots of boos. "The hatred he has, the jealousy, the hatred, it's hard to believe."
More boos. "You guys should like him, right?" Trump said. Still more boos.
'Deport Romney!" yelled a man in the crowd.
"Thank you," said Trump.
"Loser," yelled a woman near me.
The anger and frustration did not stop with political figures. A number of people complained to me about conservative media, which they believe hasn't treated Trump fairly. "I'm a National Review reader," said a man who walked up to me during Trump's speech. "I can't even look at the site anymore. It looks like Salon. Nine stories tearing [Trump] apart, man. I don't get it."
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Turnout in Republican primaries is nearly 49% higher than in Democrat contests to date
Popular votes for Republicans are running at 10.1 million vs. 6.8 million for Democrats, unless you count Rubio and Kasich as Democrats, in which case Democrats are winning by 35%.
Unify the party you poster boys for prophylactics.
Trump popular vote in LA, KS, ME and KY yesterday beat both Romney in 2012 and McCain in 2008
Trump garnered 230,443 votes in Louisiana, Kansas, Maine and Kentucky yesterday, beating Romney's total in 2012 (north of 174,000) and McCain's total in 2008 (north of 214,000). Ted Cruz received 230,209 popular votes.
In Kentucky neither Trump nor Cruz beat Romney or McCain but together the first and second place finishers yesterday garnered north of 154,000 votes, beating Romney's 117,000 in 2012 and McCain's 142,000 in 2008, both late May contests in those years unlike in 2016.
Turnout in Kentucky in 2016 exceeded 225,000, eclipsing the previous contests significantly. In 2012 turnout was only 176,000, even weaker than 2008's 185,000. Enthusiasm for Romney in 2012 had also been down in Louisiana, where McCain previously in 2008 had mustered 18,000 more votes than Romney did four years later.
In Louisiana, Kansas and Maine Trump beat Romney 2.6:1 and McCain 2:1 despite losing Kansas and Maine to Cruz yesterday, who himself obliterated Romney in Kansas 5.8:1 and McCain 8.75:1. In Maine Cruz crushed Romney 4:1 and McCain 8:1. Cruz yesterday beat the former GOP candidates for president 2.75:1 and 2.2:1 in Louisiana, Kansas and Maine combined.
Despite Trump winning the popular vote yesterday by 234 votes in the four contests, Cruz won 16 more delegates than Trump.
Ted Cruz is a "me too" wall builder and is soft on illegal immigration: Trump's central ideas in June 2015 speech predate Cruz' by five months
Noted here:
Cruz unveiled his immigration plan in November, the first plank of which is to "build a wall that works" — a suggestion that his call for more border agents, surveillance and biometric entry-exit tracking is simply a more sophisticated version of Trump's blunt-force proposals. "The unsecured border with Mexico invites illegal immigrants, criminals, and terrorists to tread on American soil. I will complete the wall," the plan says in yet another nod to Trump.
Not only did it take five months for Cruz to copy Trump's ideas, the only wall Ted Cruz ever mentioned in his own speech announcing his run for president in March 2015 was the Berlin Wall.
Securing the border is just a one-liner in the speech among many other one-liners, and unlike Trump Cruz emphasized legal immigration in the speech, a nod to his long-suspected softness on the issue:
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Imagine abolishing the IRS.
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Instead of the lawlessness and the president’s unconstitutional executive amnesty, imagine a president that finally, finally, finally secures the borders.
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And imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.
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Instead of a federal government that wages an assault on our religious liberty, that goes after Hobby Lobby, that goes after . . ..
Peter Beinart notes leftists are upset with liberals who won't "undo systemic justice"
Leave the typo as it is, Peter. You got it right the first time.
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