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| Teflon Don Confounds Democrats |
| 2017-09-13 |
| [Politico] Democrats have attacked the president every which way, but polling and focus groups show none of it's working. There's a reason for that... Democrats tried attacking Donald Trump as unfit for the presidency. They’ve made the case that he’s ineffective, pointing to his failure to sign a single major piece of legislation into law after eight months in the job. They’ve argued that Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself and that his campaign was in cahoots with Russia. None of it is working. Data from a range of focus groups and internal polls in swing states paint a difficult picture for the Democratic Party heading into the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election. It suggests that Democrats are naive if they believe Trump’s historically low approval numbers mean a landslide is coming. The party is defending 10 Senate seats in states that Trump won and needs to flip 24 House seats to take control of that chamber. The only other 'Teflon' politician I can recall is Reagan. What this article demonstrates is the inherent bias of the national media, trying their level best to destroy a Republican president, and not getting the backing of large swaths of the voting public who know better than to fall for it. That, above anything else, is Trump's major contribution to U.S. politics. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #6 Another reason is his use of twitter and other venus to bypass the media and go directly to the people. One wonders weather he deliberately says something 'stupid' every once in a while in order to keep people listening.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-09-13 20:28 |
| #5 William Jefferson Clinton was pretty slippery as I recall, too William Jefferson Clinton was covered by others as well. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-09-13 19:13 |
| #4 I'm with Iblis on this. It's not so much that I like Trump; I don't, I've always thought he was an a$$hole. There's lots of them out there, I've been there myself when I thought the occasion warranted it. His opponents, on the other hand, are generally speaking, useless liars, social perverts, and wanna be tyrants. Exactly the kind of people that I like to see crying in agonized frustration. It's all been very entertaining, if it wasn't so pathetic. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-09-13 18:41 |
| #3 A great deal of this is Trump's refusal to let the nattering class affect his actions. The other part, of course, is that his supporters (including me) like him better than they like his opponents. I'm willing to forgive an almost unlimited number of awkward tweets for the occasional Gorsuch, for example. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-09-13 16:54 |
| #2 Since they didn't actually managed to substantiate any of their wild allegations against him, where's the Teflon? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-13 14:22 |
| #1 William Jefferson Clinton was pretty slippery as I recall, too. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-09-13 11:54 |