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| Monica Crowley: The great silent majority may surprise Trump, Clinton and us all |
| 2016-08-11 |
| BLUF: [Wash Times] ....This is why, despite whatever the current polling shows, the biggest winners of the campaign so far are, first, Donald Trump, who has pulled off the most astonishing political achievement in recent American history and who, despite having never done this before, having a skeletal campaign and relatively little money, may very well pull the whole thing off; and, second, the great silent majority, which now believes it truly has a voice and the ability to effect the course of the country. The Republican Party is now the party of action, symbolized by its frenetic, unconventional nominee, and the Democratic Party is the passive one, embodied by its tired champion of the rejected status quo. In a change election, the choice could not be clearer. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Man, what a day. (tears/laughs) |
| Posted by: Harcourt Panda3432 2016-08-11 23:32 |
| #6 There's no need to fear. This is all media hype.Our local newspaper just endorsed Hilly and many have canceled subscriptions. They are irrelevant. Watch the Trump rallies. This is big. This is historic. Call him and his supporters names. Jump in the waters fine or rail at things that go bump in the night. |
| Posted by: Dale 2016-08-11 18:24 |
| #5 If Lloyd Blankfein or Erich Schmidt had to go personally to every undecided voter in the three or four dozen counties in the three or four states that will decide this election and hand them a check for $100,000 in exchange for their votes, that's what they would do. Yeah, but all they have to do is distribute Obamaphones. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-08-11 12:30 |
| #4 All Trump needs to do is hammer all the crookedness of Hillary and shut his mouth on anything that isn't related to attacking Hillary directly. Clue for the clueless: The silent majority does not exist. Its Pat Buchanan's speech gimmick he wrote for Nixon. There is not a majority for much anything these days, only against things. |
| Posted by: Benito Zorba8284 2016-08-11 12:24 |
| #3 If the silent majority remains silent and stays away from the polls, this country is screwed. Hillary is Obama on steroids. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-08-11 10:01 |
| #2 The 47% will never vote for someone who ever uttered the words "you're fired". All HRC needs to win is another 4% via SJW's and voter fraud in a few dozen counties in swing states and she walks away with this election. Very sad, but I fear you are right. The level of evil and corruption has now overtake the legal system. I am least of all optimistic. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-11 06:45 |
| #1 I wish she were right. Unfortunately, the leaders of five industries - IT, banking/finance, entertainment, education, and public employment (plus the Saudis laundering cash through various back channels) - will spend ANY amount of money and direct the MSM and public broadcasting to engage in ANY amount of yellow journalism to insure Hillary Clinton is elected president. In a media age this will almost surely prove insurmountable. If Lloyd Blankfein or Erich Schmidt had to go personally to every undecided voter in the three or four dozen counties in the three or four states that will decide this election and hand them a check for $100,000 in exchange for their votes, that's what they would do. They have the money to do that. Trump does not and never will. And that would be the case no matter who Mrs. Clinton ran against. The economy is down, and will be for much longer than the 1930's depression. Even if the vast majority of citizens don't understand the mechanics and demographics of this, they are gripped with fear over losing their current level of affluence, even if they have some vague notion that it is mathematically unsustainable. Fear that the chess pieces being moved to fix this (something HRC has repeatedly said she will fight against, which resonates with that dynamic) amounts to fear of losing one's own rice bowl for millions of people. The 47% will never vote for someone who ever uttered the words "you're fired". All HRC needs to win is another 4% via SJW's and voter fraud in a few dozen counties in swing states and she walks away with this election. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2016-08-11 05:52 |