this Jewish chick told me she likes his policies, but not his speaking style / vulgarity

I think that the problem for a lot of people is his rhetoric. People like his policies

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@Walter Johnson Pat Buchanan and George Wallace are against wealth redistribution; GWB supports it.

Also yeah

The reason he won the primary was definitely his personality and rhetoric; Ted Cruz basically copy and pasted his most popular proposals into his platform before the Iowa caucus.

So if you wanted Trump policies, you basically could've voted for Cruz. In fact, he was probably more right-wing/Capitalist in many ways.

However it is precisely because he was more far-right than Trump on economic issues that he was ironically not as electable as Trump.

I highly recommend everyone here read Trende's book "The Lost Majority".

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Majority-Future-Government-Grabs/dp/0230116469

@Den interesting, what did you take away from it

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 holy fuck

I don't think though that Whites would vote this Republican if the country wasn't so diverse.

I mean with the exception of California the more diverse states tend to be where Whites vote the most overwhelmingly Republican

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 saved

What are going to be the effect of having most of the Republicans funded by the RNC and the Democrats funded individually?

@Den I'm not sure. I think the Democrats will still get enough funding on an individual basis from Soros and the like

maybe not though

if they don't get enough funding, the Republicans will have a HUGE advantage

@Red Storm (in NYC) What I mean is Republicans are donating to the RNC and Democrats are donating directly to Candidates. I wonder what the effects will be? I assume a lot of duplicate effort for the Dems. And a lot of money going to candidates that will either easily win or have no chance

the RNC will be able to distribute the funds to the candidates who need it the most,

whereas Dem candidates' oppurtunities will be isolated to their own donations, assuming they are at the recieving end

A lot of money to will be spent during primaries against other Dems trying to get the nominee to take on the Republican in the general

@Den Yeah, apparently there are so many Democrats running this year that many of them damage their party's chances by attacking each other in the primaries

leeeet's not jump to conclusions...

many won't win the primaries

yeah, but the primary survivors can be damaged by their opponents attacks against them

I think the damage will occur if they push the other candidate too far left to pick up Normies during the General. I think Democrats will vote for against the Great Satan (Republicans) no matter what. It will also force them to burn through money

Dems burn through money I mean

Democrats will generally vote for the D candidate no matter what, even if they are too progressive or too moderate, in order to spite Drumpf

however, independents are another story

The last couple polls on the generic ballot bode very well, you have R+1 w/ the morning consult poll (up 5 pts from their previous poll) and D+4 on the latest YouGov poll (up 2 pts from their previous poll)

Which yougov poll?

latest one

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-generic-ballot-polls/?ex_cid=rrpromo

My one qualm with your recommendations, @🎃Boo-ton🎃

Is that consumer confidence etc. are amazing right now.

If there's any economic issue, it's the stock market, but that's only because of the correction.

It's really the fault of Congress.

As the stock market skyrocketed expecting great 2017 legislation, repealing Obamacare etc.

But the Republicans did not pass such legislation.