A fiercely Republican commentator believes that both Bush and Walker took a major drubbing in the debate yesterday.
I said a year ago that Republicans have no candidate. I’m still right today. It’s the 2012 election all over again. A bland, boring, uncharismatic fellow who says one ill-advised thing after another and whom nobody really cares about is the only serious candidate. And that’s very bad for the entire political field.
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Republicans have, by demography, gerrymandering and design the more historically “reliable” voters, so they don’t have to worry so much about enthusiasm. When Democrats don’t get the historically “unreliable” voters out, they lose. In my lifetime to be elected President, Democrats have had to be superstars of political charisma. Only Reagan was a truly charismatic guy out of the Republican presidents during my life. The Bushes were not.
The winning candidate merely has to be more charismatic than the other candidate. If you are plain unsalted oatmeal, your opponent had better be overcooked broccoli.
There a lot of people who are “meh” about Hillary or actively hate her.
I watched a Fox panel of Republican primary voters tonight. They were very stupid and ill informed but they did not complain that any of the candidates lacked charisma. They were very animated and positive.
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They can go ahead and feel positive for now. But they are losing this election. 🙂
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They can go ahead and feel positive for now. But they are losing this election.
I hope you are right, but I am not terribly hopeful if HRC is the nominee.
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Oh well. Bush has the election in the bag anyway.
“Clarkson’s interest in election returns was piqued by a 2012 paper released by analysts Francois Choquette and James Johnson showing the same pattern of election returns, which favor establishment Republican candidates in primaries and general elections. The irregularities are isolated to precincts that use “Central Tabulator” voting machines — machines that have previously been shown to be vulnerable to hacking. The effects are significant and widespread: According to their analysis, Mitt Romney could have received over a million extra votes in the 2012 Republican primary, mostly coming at the expense of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. President Obama also ceded significant votes to John McCain due to this irregularity, as well.”
http://americablog.com/2015/08/mathematician-actual-voter-fraud-kansas-republicans.html
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