Trump Still Favored in the Polls

[hrdlr110]

^this. The question to me is at what point the loss of money in a useless campaign trumps (sorry) his egotistical desire for being in the spotlight and trying to be a political force. He is ego driven to a point, and his decisions down the road will show when common sense overrides the ego. How many millions he is willing to expend to build his brand, offset by money wasted for a losing cause. He will go until it is obviously pointless to go further, but will garner as much press and selling his brand as he can.

His attempt at relevance by making straight talk (name calling etc) gives him free air time other candidates don't get. He's largely had to spend less for more air time just because he's trump the train wreck.

[Hydra009]

Latest poll:

NBC/WSJ poll on GOP race: Trump 21 (+2 since July) Carson 20 (+10) Rubio 11 (+6) Fiorina 11 (+11) Bush 7 (-7) Kasich 6 (+3) Cruz 5% (-4)

Remember when Bush had a shot?  You're doing pretty bad when you're the worst politician in the Bush family.

[Baruch]

Don't count ... that the R-convention won't be fixed ;-(

[josephpalazzo]

OK, given the trending ... Carson/Trump 2016 ;-)  Is Carson more acceptable because he isn't a lawyer, not a career politician, had a decent education, is Black and Conservative?  I personally have no problem with American Muslims ... but would you think an acceptable candidate in the 1944 presidential election would have been a Japanese-American?  And given that he is in politics, is his religion more than skin deep?  Huckabee/Santorum/Cruz are maybe more than skin deep.

What's striking between Trump and Carson is that they are opposite in character: one bombastic, the other, calm. It's as if the party is bi-polar. Now, in 1944, people were prejudiced, even though they didn't know it. It was part of the culture. Hollywood, which was dominated by the Russian Jews, had a policy: no more than one Jew in a film. Doing anything more than that would give away that their movies weren't really about American culture. Blacks had their own squadron in the army, etc. Just about everyone was prejudiced, racist, xenophobic. That was par for the course. If anything, Carson's stand on the Muslim question shows we haven't evolved that much: We won't elect a person from the country/religious group that recently attacked us.

[josephpalazzo]

Remember when Bush had a shot?  You're doing pretty bad when you're the worst politician in the Bush family.

Jed Bush recent pronouncements indicates that he is on the trail campaign just to justify his brother's policies. It also indicates that the people backing him are more or less the same people who stood behind his brother, the ones with the "trickle-down economics really works" and pre-emptive strikes keeps America safe". Americans were fooled once, they certainly can be fooled twice. Disgusting.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

With all the secret money flowing into campaigns I doubt tRump is really using all of his own money. He's using free publicity a lot, but it's nearly impossible to actually track it. He can claim it's his own money, but the reality is it's mostly network money which isn't his own money.

[Baruch]

What's striking between Trump and Carson is that they are opposite in character: one bombastic, the other, calm. It's as if the party is bi-polar. Now, in 1944, people were prejudiced, even though they didn't know it. It was part of the culture. Hollywood, which was dominated by the Russian Jews, had a policy: no more than one Jew in a film. Doing anything more than that would give away that their movies weren't really about American culture. Blacks had their own squadron in the army, etc. Just about everyone was prejudiced, racist, xenophobic. That was par for the course. If anything, Carson's stand on the Muslim question shows we haven't evolved that much: We won't elect a person from the country/religious group that recently attacked us.

This ... genius political observation.  The US has always been schizoid.  But each generation creates its own garage band.

[wolf39us]

Let's make America great again!