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View Poll Results: Will trump be re-elected? |
Yes | 28 | 14.51% | |
No | 80 | 41.45% | |
Don't know, but I hope not | 82 | 42.49% | |
Don't know, but I hope he does | 3 | 1.55% | |
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16th February 2017, 10:23 AM | #83 |
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Yes, he has a high approval.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ...ez_track_feb16 DAO just a bit faster. |
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty forum word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." -Steve Martin |
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16th February 2017, 11:22 AM | #85 |
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Rasmussen has a heavy conservative bias. Almost every other poll is not favorable to Trump.
But be happy with your Dictator wannabe. |
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16th February 2017, 11:32 AM | #86 |
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Ending 200 years of democracy in America with a semi facist authotarian regime is a high price to pay for a few tax cuts.
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16th February 2017, 11:42 AM | #87 |
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16th February 2017, 12:25 PM | #88 |
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Don't be silly.
The tax cuts aren't the only incentive. The people getting those cuts are the ultra-rich who will also get to disenfranchise and effectively enslave the masses, all while defending themselves with a military so well armed that civilian resistance will be impossible. We're marching back to feudalism and will stay there until there's armament equity between the soldiers defending the elite and the citizens fighting for freedom. That probably won't happen until a few generations in when the elite's armies shrink, either through complacency or economic downturn. |
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17th February 2017, 02:25 PM | #92 |
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Yes.
If he acts randomly, and each random act cancels out every other random act then in total producing no motion in any direction. The government will act as if the previous administration had went on an extended vacation. The economy will continue growing, taking us out of recession territory. With employment and wages restored, he will get reelected. |
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I don't think the numbers bear that out. Gallup has a convenient page with historic listings for a host of notable people, and you can see that Hillary's favourability rating was already not much when she announced on 12 April 2015 her candidacy, with Bernie announcing his candidacy shortly after, on 25 May 2015. During that time there wasn't much campaigning, and what there was was about Wall Street, health care and such, not about Russian-fed lies, and Gallup already saw Bernie surging ahead (link), In the fall of 2015 Hillary's ratings further dropped and Gallup attributes it to the ongoing "email scandal" (link). At that time, the campaign - primaries had not yet begun - was still courteous and only focused on differences in economic outview, IIRC.
BTW, it's interesting to see Ted Cruz' favourability ratings there: as more people got to know him, they all got to dislike him. |
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18th February 2017, 06:58 PM | #95 |
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Where is planet X?
The I don't know and will wait to see what he actually does with the economy and policies rather than what we think he is likely to do? I am pessimistic. But I am no way going to judge his presidency or re-electability by 1 month in office! That seems just silly. |
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There's a very good chance he does not win re-election, but obviously it's too soon to tell. The outcome will mostly depend on the economy. The Republican controlled Congress already raised the debt ceiling 9 trillion dollars ("deficits don't matter"), so if Trump gets a ton of stimulus via tax cuts and infrastructure spending, and there's no crash, sure, he'll win re-election.
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Polls show that voters would choose a democrat over Trump, but not if its Elizabeth Warren
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Anyone here who says Trump won't be re-elected wanna make a bet? If you're wrong and he does get reelected, change your avatar to say TRUMP FTW and change your signature to an inspiring quote from Trump.
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Trump is great at telling the Big Lie. He built his career on it. Just as he got bankers to invest in his Atlantic City debacles in multiple rounds of failed investments (to his own personal enrichment) he will get enough voters to vote for him and not the opposition again in 2020. He may even be able to get his preferred candidates elected in the mid-term elections.
He won't be impeached. The GOP is a castrated bunch of spineless jellyfish. The few with spines are going to be targeted by Trump. They'll either lose their next election bids or be so battered they'll have no political capital or power left. Trump has a very real advantage. He's willing to destroy the GOP and the country to get what he wants. He's already proven he's happy to turn Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" into "Business as Usual" in his administration, and congress won't do anything about it. The judiciary is the only real barrier left, but Trump has the power to legally sweep a lot of them away. He's working hard to delegitimize the role of the judiciary, something the GOP has been working on for years with the "Activist Judges" line. He's putting himself in a good position to not face much public backlash if he does illegally ignore judicial rulings. Since Congress is kneeling and opening wide, all he REALLY needs to worry about is a military coup. |
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Trump is a Jesse Ventura. He does not have it in him to go even 4 years. Trusted underlings will carry it to the end the 4th year. If he is still there.
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Just two months into his presidency and there's so much turmoil in the White House and it seems that with each passing day there's another controversy brewing. Now, we have this: Flynn seeks immunity for testimony (CNN)Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is willing to testify before federal and congressional investigators in their ongoing probe into Russian meddling in the US elections, but only if he is granted immunity, his lawyer said Thursday. "Gen. Flynn certainly has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit. http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politi...ony/index.html |
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The problem is that none of the bold is unexpected at all. In fact, Trump seems to be running the country in pretty much the manner that he was predicted to, and for that reason many people said, "I don't see how Trump could be elected."
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Several factors that turned the election towards Trump last year may not be present in 2020.
- Russia might not try to/be able to meddle in the election - at least not to the same extent. Hell, they might not even favor Trump a second time around. - There likely will be no Comey-like revelation two weeks before election day. - People are more aware of fake news nowadays, and I have faith journalists will start asking harder questions. Trump's base will vote for him. People who'll vote GOP no matter what will vote for them. I don't think - after four years of this **** - anyone else will. |
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Russia doesn't want a stable and coherent U.S.. I cannot imagine a Democratic Party candidate who would make the U.S. less stable and less coherent than Trump.
Yes that's unlikely. They may be more aware but IMO those that care didn't vote for Trump last time and won't vote for him if he runs in 2020. Journalists will do whatever drives the most traffic to their paper/website/channel. If covering Trump's every pronouncement does that then that's what they'll do. Trump will IMO be box office in 2020, possibly even more than he was in 2016. Depending on how voter ID and roll purging goes, this could be quite sufficient. |
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